Secondhand Mini-ships 1/1000 W17 IJNS Tsurugugisaki submarine support ship 1939
A 1/1000 scale secondhand waterline model of Tsurugisaki a Japanese submarine support ship in 1939. This model is fully assembled in balsa wood and painted ready for display. We believe that it was made in Germany by a professional model maker, see photograph.
Tsurugisaki was converted to the aircraft carrier IJNS Shoho from 1939-42 and her sister ship became IJNS Zuiho. Shoho was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.
These support ships have rarely been modelled in any scale in the past and this secondhand model is in good condition.