Aoshima A000095 1/700 I.J.N. Aircraft Carrier Katsuragi

Highly detailed waterline kit of the Katsuragi, with colorful decals to represent the interesting camo pattern on the flight deck.

Katsuragi was the third and final Unryū-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy built during World War II. Named after Mount Katsuragi,[1] in Nara Prefecture, and completed late in the war; she never embarked her complement of aircraft and spent the war in Japanese waters. The ship was badly damaged in a July 1945 airstrike by American carrier aircraft on Kure Naval Base. Repaired after the end of the war, Katsuragi was then used as a repatriation transport for a number of months, bringing Japanese soldiers and civilians back to Japan from overseas locations. She was scrapped in Japan beginning in late 1946.