Space Pirate Battleship Arcadia

The Arcadia is the space battleship captained by Harlock in Leiji Matsumoto's Space Pirate Captain Harlock. Her designer and chief builder was Tochirō Ōyama, Harlock's closest friend; Tochiro dies before the story opens, but his consciousness stays inside the ship's main computer.

What it does in the story

A pirate ship in the plain sense: about forty crew, a skull on the bow in most versions, a carved stern castle, a flag from the mast, and a bridge laid out like a surface battleship's.

What makes it different

• A hull that can dive Shock balancers let her leave orbit, cross an atmosphere and keep going into the sea, an entry that would break an ordinary ship apart.
• Two bows, two eras The 1978 anime gives her a pointed, shark-nosed bow on a blue hull. The 1979 Galaxy Express 999 film replaced it with a whale-like head carrying a large skull relief, green-hulled; later works renamed the pointed type the Death Shadow.
• Guns that stack The main battery is a triple-barrel pulsar cannon. The skull-bow ship mounts three turrets, one in the hull bottom; the attack-enhanced third ship adds a fourth for twelve barrels.

How big is it?

• 1:1500: The larger scale here, used for the second ship and the attack type.
• 1:2500: The compact kit, listed at 226.5 mm for the finished hull.

What this collection covers

Hasegawa's Creator Works kits: the 1:1500 skull-bow ship with a knife ram and a 1:1500 999 train as bonus parts, the 1:1500 second ship with two in-scale Cosmo Wing craft, the attack-enhanced third ship, and two 1:2500 kits, one with a Maetel acrylic stand.

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