US Battleship USS Iowa BB-61

Commissioned in February 1943, the USS Iowa served briefly in the Atlantic before departing for the Pacific theatre of war in January 1944.
She served primarily to support carrier-based air attacks against Japanese-held islands, protecting those carriers and strafing enemy coastal and naval positions.
She took part in the Marianas campaign and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, but missed the chance for a showdown with the Japanese battleship Yamato.
After supporting the attack on the Philippines, Iowa took part in the Okinawa invasion and supported air attacks on Kyushu.
Together with her sister ships USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin, the Iowa bombed industrial cities in the Japanese homeland towards the end of the war.

Plastic model kit
 

• shows the Iowa as she was deployed in 1944 during the Marianas Campaign
• accurately captures differences from the USS Missouri such as open bridge, bow, radar antenna and 20mm guns on turret #2
• the main turrets can rotate after completion thanks to polycaps
• the equipment and armament like 40mm and 20mm guns are reproduced in detail
• includes detailed models of Vought OS2U Kingfisher seaplanes

scale 1:700

unbuilt / unpainted