Shizuoka Model Teaching Materials Cooperative offers the 1/700 Waterline Series, which features a lineup of 230 ships from World War II to the latest ships. Even the world’s largest battleship, Yamato, is reproduced in a compact size of 367 mm in length, and the style of omitting the bottom of the ship below the waterline makes it ideal for collections.

On the afternoon of April 6, 1945, the last fleet of the Japanese Navy set out from off the coast of Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in Operation Kikusui, which was a plan to launch a general attack on the Allied forces that had begun landing on Okinawa and to support kamikaze operations by army and navy aircraft by sending in the remaining surface ships. The battleship Yamato, which had been preserved as a trump card, was used as the flagship to form the First Striking Force, with the light cruiser Yahagi and eight destroyers Fuyutsuki, Suzutsuki, Asashimo, Hatsushimo, Kasumi, Isokaze, Hamakaze, and Yukikaze. Just after noon on April 7th, a relentless wave attack by more than 300 aircraft, including dive bombers and torpedo bombers, took off from 12 American aircraft carriers, continued for over two hours, and the Yamato, which had been hit by a concentrated torpedo attack on its port side, sunk into the sea off Cape Bonin with a huge explosion and mushroom cloud.

Shizuoka Model Teaching Materials Cooperative 1/700 Waterline “Kikusui Operation BOX” Yamato’s Final Battle
Release date: July 2025
Price: 19,250 yen (base price 17,500 yen)

・Japanese battleship Yamato (Tamiya)
・Japanese light cruiser Yahagi (Tamiya)
・Japanese destroyers Yukikaze (Aoshima), Isokaze (Aoshima), Suzutsuki (Aoshima), Hatsushimo (Aoshima), Hamakaze (Aoshima), Fuyutsuki (Aoshima), Asashimo (Hasegawa), Kasumi (Hasegawa)

⇒ “Kikusui Operation BOX” Yamato’s Final Battle Pamphlet, telling the final battle of the battleship “Yamato”