Description

This new set is custom designed for the Hasegawa Japanese battleship Mikasa kit and contains the following items: custom fitted and pre-shaped main deck railing featuring "drooped-chain" detailing and with pre-positioned cutouts for chocks; specialized and pre-sized railing in all the correct styles for all upper decks with choice of simulated canvas-covered or non-canvas-covered styles; watertight doors in all the correct sizes and in several styles; inclined ladders in all required sizes; vertical ladders; two accommodation ladders with perforated platforms and associated rigging; relief-etched replacement bridge wing supports and mast top supports; pre-shaped footropes for all four yardarms; fold-to-shape forward and aft bridge pilot houses with see-through windows and separate doors; helm and binnacle for interior of pilot house; pre-shaped handgrabs and funnel cap grilles for both funnels including an alignment jig to ease assembly; pre-shaped perforated catwalks for both sides of the hull; relief-etched gunport covers for gun casemates; rudders, oars, and chocks for ship's boats; turnbuckles, eyebolts, and pulley blocks for custom rigging work; highly detailed skylight covers in several styles; two pre-shaped ladder well railings for gun decks; detailed captain's walk with accurate handrails and relief-etched ship's nameboard; three anchor hawsepipe screens; anchor handling hardware; and a 3-D relief-etched figure of Admiral Togo in full uniform with sword and binoculars. Numerous spare parts are included in the event of loss or damage.