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While I've already welcomed Japan into my online Century 21 Virtual Navy Collection with their official naval anthem, the "Gunkan March" (from Imperial times), my earlier welcome was for the IJN and not the post-WWII JMSDF. Here's a modern version featuring the ships and aircraft of the JMSDF for a proper welcome to my Cold War wing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6u4M…

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Ported to OBJ from the game-ripped model provided to us by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Wargame: Red Dragon. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This was the first class of general-purpose destroyers built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, or JMSDF for short, and also the first to use gas turbine propulsion instead of traditional oil-fired steam boilers. A total of twelve (12) were eventually built, with the first entering service in 1979 and the last in 1987. They served all the way through to the end of the Cold War and are still serving as I write this (March 2021), with four subsequently converted into dedicated training vessels given their age but still retaining all of their weaponry (Shimayuki sub-class) and all of them receiving periodic overhauls and refits as needed to keep them in service. They are considered among the best of the JMSDF's pre-AEGIS generation (pre-Kongo) destroyers still in service. The original plan was to replace them with the newer Takanami class; however, dissatisfaction with its performance led to only five being built and new destroyer construction switched over to the more robust Akizuki design instead. The JMSDF's current apparent plans are to keep all of the Hatsuyukis in service until they wear out. To find out more about the JMSDF Hatsuyuki class destroyer, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyuk…

This is an excellent model from the waterline up. From the waterline down it sucks. I've tried to extend the lower hull as much as I can for those of us who prefer full-hull models, but I can't do anything for the stern without taking the time to completely rework it. You'll just have to make do with it as is.

This is not my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you. Please credit Focus Home Interactive, the ones behind Wargame: Red Dragon for the original. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR XNALARA XPS USERS!!! Fellow XPS artist Haganeya has an XPS rigged version of the original game ripped model, which you can download from his dA page. Here's the link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyuk…

Description

While I've already welcomed Japan into my online Century 21 Virtual Navy Collection with their official naval anthem, the "Gunkan March" (from Imperial times), my earlier welcome was for the IJN and not the post-WWII JMSDF. Here's a modern version featuring the ships and aircraft of the JMSDF for a proper welcome to my Cold War wing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ6u4M…

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Ported to OBJ from the game-ripped model provided to us by our friends over at the Pack 3D website. Original is from Wargame: Red Dragon. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This was the first class of general-purpose destroyers built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, or JMSDF for short, and also the first to use gas turbine propulsion instead of traditional oil-fired steam boilers. A total of twelve (12) were eventually built, with the first entering service in 1979 and the last in 1987. They served all the way through to the end of the Cold War and are still serving as I write this (March 2021), with four subsequently converted into dedicated training vessels given their age but still retaining all of their weaponry (Shimayuki sub-class) and all of them receiving periodic overhauls and refits as needed to keep them in service. They are considered among the best of the JMSDF's pre-AEGIS generation (pre-Kongo) destroyers still in service. The original plan was to replace them with the newer Takanami class; however, dissatisfaction with its performance led to only five being built and new destroyer construction switched over to the more robust Akizuki design instead. The JMSDF's current apparent plans are to keep all of the Hatsuyukis in service until they wear out. To find out more about the JMSDF Hatsuyuki class destroyer, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyuk…

This is an excellent model from the waterline up. From the waterline down it sucks. I've tried to extend the lower hull as much as I can for those of us who prefer full-hull models, but I can't do anything for the stern without taking the time to completely rework it. You'll just have to make do with it as is.

This is not my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you. Please credit Focus Home Interactive, the ones behind Wargame: Red Dragon for the original. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR XNALARA XPS USERS!!! Fellow XPS artist Haganeya has an XPS rigged version of the original game ripped model, which you can download from his dA page. Here's the link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyuk…