Hasegawa IJN Heavy Cruiser Ashigara Model Kit

From the Manufacturer IJN Heavy Cruiser Ashigara was a My?k? class heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Ashigara was named after a mountain on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, also known as Mount Kintoki. Ashigara was laid down at the Kawasaki shipyard in Kobe on April 11, 1925, launched on April 22, 1928, and was commissioned into the Imperial Navy on August 20, 1929. On June 8, 1945, Ashigara left Batavia for Singapore with 1,600 troops on board, escorted by the destroyer Kamikaze. In the Bangka Strait the two ships came under attack from three Allied submarines. Ashigara was hit five times at a range of 4,000 yards and capsized at 12:37. Kamikaze rescued 400 troops and 853 crew.