Aoshima 006734 1/700 Japanese Navy Destroyer Maikaze

The Japanese Navy destroyer Maikaze returns to Aoshima's 1/700-scale "Waterline" ship model kit series, with the common outfitting parts now newly molded for more precision and a higher level of detail.

Maikaze upon commissioning was assigned to destroyer division 4 (Arashi, Hagikaze, Nowaki, Maikaze), and a few months later was still around during the start of WW2 for Japan. At the bgiining of the war, Maikaze saw various escorting duties throughout the Philippines and Dutch East Indies in the early parts of 1942 and served as a carrier escort during the Battle of Midway, where she survived American air attacks undamaged, then helped to evacuate and scuttle the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga. Maikaze embarked on troop and supply transport missions throughout the Guadalcanal campaign, and on August 24 Maikaze escorted aircraft carriers during the battle of the Eastern Solomons, and on October 26 escorted carriers during the battle of Santa Cruz, and from December 13-18, she towed her crippled sistership Nowaki to Truk.