Brand New Mini Hobby Models USS Arizona BB-39 1/350 Scale Kit #80607 W/ Open Box

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Mini Hobby Models USS Arizona BB 39 1/350 Scale Collectors Model
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Launched in 1915, the USS Arizona is best remembered for the 1,177 officers and crew that were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
HISTORY:
USS
Arizona
was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state’s recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the
Pennsylvania
-class of “super-dreadnought” " battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war,
Arizona
was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow
Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career.
Aside from a comprehensive modernization in 1929–31,
Arizona
was regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including the annual Fleet Problems (training exercises). When an earthquake struck Long Beach, California, in 1933,
Arizona
'​s crew provided aid to the survivors. Two years later, the ship was featured in a James Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism..
During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941,
Arizona
was bombed. She exploded and sank, killing 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of the other ships sunk or damaged that day,
Arizona
could not be fully salvaged, though the Navy removed parts of the ship for reuse. The wreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, straddles the ship's hull.
Career
Name:
Arizona
Namesake:
Arizona
Ordered:
4 March 1913
Builder:
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cost:
,000,000
[1]
Laid down:
16 March 1914
Launched:
19 June 1915
Commissioned:
17 October 1916
Decommissioned:
29 December 1941
[2]
Struck:
1 December 1942
Identification:
Hull number
: BB-39
Fate:
Sunk in
Attack on Pearl Harbor
, 7 December 1941
General characteristics (as completed)
Class & type:
Pennsylvania
-class
battleship
Displacement:
·
29,158 long tons (29,626 t) (
standard
)
·
31,917 long tons (32,429 t) (
deep load
)
Length:
608 ft (185.3 m)
Beam:
97 ft (29.6 m)
Draft:
29 ft 3 in (8.9 m) (deep load)
Installed power:
29,366
shp
(21,898 kW) (on
sea trials
)
Propulsion:
4 shafts
4 sets of
Parsons
steam turbines
12
Babcock & Wilcox
water-tube boilers
Speed:
21
knots
(39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range:
8,000
nmi
(15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:
55 officers and 860 men
Armament:
4 × 3 –
14-inch/45 guns
22 × 1 –
5-inch/51 guns
4 × 1 –
3-inch/50
AA
guns
2 × 21-inch (533 mm)
torpedo tubes
Armor:
Belt
: 13.5–8 in (343–203 mm)
Bulkheads
: 13–8 in (330–203 mm)
Barbettes
: 13 in (330 mm)
Turrets
: 18 in (457 mm)
Decks
: 5 in (127 mm)
Conning tower
: 16–14 in (406–356 mm)
THE KIT:
This kit comes in a very sturdy shrink-wrapped tray and lid type box.
It has been released under several different labels: Banner, Hobby Boss, Trumpeter and this Mini Hobby Models kit. When they developed the kit they were evidently using the age-old Revell-Monogram kit as a reference. While that may not have been the best detailed, the kit is surprisingly good value.
The box says that Mini Hobby Models is in China. However, I think it does not exist anymore, but I may be wrong about that.
The box art shows the Arizona tied up in harbor someplace. Can I assume it’s Pearl Harbor? To the right of the box art is the Arizona’s number BB-39. Below that it says the kit is a collector’s plastic kit with a full hull and 212 parts. A yellow sunburst has “Rememberance Pearl Harbor 1941-2001” on it. Below that is a shield in black white and red with yellow lettering that says “U.S.S. Arizona BAT-ONE” and that the actual model may vary from the box art.
I read on the internet some place that it is illustrated in it’s 1930’s configuration, whatever that means?
One side panel begins with the history of the Arizona, followed by “Contains one unassembled kit and easy to follow pictorial instructions. Paint and cement required to complete model as pictured on box. Suitable for ages 14 to adult. Scale is 1/350th “ This is in English, Spanish, German, French and Chinese. Each marked with a color illustration of the flag of the country that speaks those languages. Next is a black and white photo of the Arizona at anchor with another ship parked outboard of her. MADE IN CHINA is shown.
The other side panel has a color 2-view illustration of the Arizona, showing it from above and in profile. MADE IN CHINA again appears.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX:
The kit contains 4 dark grey trees of parts (in 3 un-sealed cello bags), a loose individual dark grey hull top, individual dark grey parts of the fore, aft, middle and upper deck parts (in a un-sealed cello bag together), 2 jet black trees in a un-sealed cello, the decal sheet, 8 small metal screws in a small stapled shut cello , a loose length of metal rod and the instructions. I don’t know what the screws and rod are for as they are shown nowhere in the assembly instructions. I think, because this kit was obviously marketed also as a motorized kit, that the screws and rod had something to do with the motorization. At any rate they are excess in this kit.