Japan Navy Ww2 Shinano Carrier Class Model With Diorama

Hand made by me with airbrush & original paints! Shinano class aircraft carrier with diorama & plastic box! Shinano (), was an aircrat carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War ll , the largest such built up to that time.Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato class battleships , Shinano's partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to a carrier following Japan's disastrous loss of four fleet carriers at the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. Her conversion was still not finished in November 1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to Kure Naval Base to complete fitting out & transfer a load of 50 Yokosuka MxY7 Ohka rocket-propelled kamikaze flying bombs . Hastily dispatched, she had an inexperienced crew & serious design & construction flaws, lacked adequate pumps & fire-control systems, & did not even carry a single carrier aircraft. She was sunk en route, 10 days after commissioning , on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the U.S Navy submarine Archerfish . Over a thousand sailors & civilians were rescued & 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine. 50 cantimeters long ! Fast shiping worldwide with safe box with tracking number ! Japan Navy Ww2 Shinano Carrier Class Model With Diorama