Japanese Navy Carrier Cruiser Mogami 1/1100 Scale Diecast Model Ship - Eaglemoss (20)

Eaglemoss's warship collection including the World War II Japanese cruiser Mogami, is an accurate, affordable recreation of a warship at a specific time in history. All ships including the Mogami are dated on its nameplate. This is the Mogami after it was converted into a seaplane scout carrier after the Battle of Midway. Eaglemoss also has the sister ships( Mikuma, Suzuya, Kumano) of the Mogami at different years before and during the war so you can compare and see the differences in the ships from the same class. They don't recycle the same model with different names. Pretty cool if you like this kind of stuff. It is both diecast metal (hull) and made of plastic (deck, superstructure, and guns). I like the ones that are boxed because they come with a Japanese magazine telling the history of the ship. If you can't read Japanese you will enjoy the pictures. For some reason the foreign market outside of Japan sometimes sells the ships without the box and magazine. it comes in a plastic clamshell case. The Mogami I bought came in a box just like the way they are sold in Japan. There are 80 ships in the entire collection including U.S., British, German, French, and Italian ships but the majority are Japanese including a few from the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05. Whenever I go toJapan I buy about a dozen ( Japan has many similar collections specializing in aircraft, tanks, etc, so I buy the others also), but shipping them to the States is really expensive. I'm glad to see some for sale on Amazon. I buy them online and still save money by avoiding airfare to Japan and mailing them home. Eaglemoss used to sell them directly to you via a collectors club where you subscribe and get every model when they are available but the 80th and last ship was issued and you cannot buy them directly from Eaglemoss anymore. Even in Japan they are harder to find. A book store in Kanda, Tokyo sells them but even they have run out of some models and I could not buy the ones I was looking for. Better pick them up online before the supply runs out. They are addicting but fun to collect.