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AKAGI 1/350 Work in Progress

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AKAGI 1/350 Work in Progress
Posted by caramonraistlin on Sunday, March 8, 2009 5:18 PM

Greetings:

I thought I'd post a few pictures of my Hasegawa 1/350 AKAGI. I decided not to paint it as she appeared during the Pearl Harbor or the Battle of Midway. I am painting her as if she survived until the end of the war. I decided to do her in the two tone green that the Japanese used on some of the surviving late war carriers. I based the dark disruptive pattern on the one used on the Shinano. As I continue this build I also plan to use late war aircraft and upgrade the aa compliment. Like the Shinano I plan to ad 12 (6 near the bow and 6 near the stern) of the shipbhoard missile launchers the Japanese used. I decided to build this what if version of her as I can side step some of the controversy regarding what color grey she was in (some folks have said Sasebo while others have said Kure as she did undego a refit/repairs at Kure before her final battle). Also one kinda gets tired of various shades of grey after awhile. Any coments?






Sincerely

 

Michael Lacey 

 

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Posted by New Hampshire on Sunday, March 8, 2009 5:38 PM

I have a friend who might find this interesting.  His thing is IJN ships...no matter how hard I try to convince him to try aircraft or even other era and nationality warships Big Smile [:D] .  One request...could we get some larger size pictures? I would really love to see some detail on her!

Brian

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Posted by caramonraistlin on Sunday, March 8, 2009 5:56 PM

New Hampshire:

Yes, as I progress on this build I'll add some closer up pictures. Right now there isn't much detail to see. I was trying to get the whole model in the pictures to show the camoflague on both sides. My camera is great at close ups but the lens isn't wide enough to get the whole profile except at a distance. It's interesting in that the Japanese were trying to paint pictures such as the profiles of merchant ships on the side of their carriers in an attempt to fool our submarines into thinking the target wasn't worthy of their efforts. I believe they found out the hard way that this didn't work. Thank you for viewing.

Sincerely

 

Michael Lacey

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Posted by enemeink on Monday, March 9, 2009 10:41 AM

could you add some larger picture of the ones that you have posted? if i click on the pictures that you supplied they are the same size. thanks for sharing i seen this kit at my LHS and was blown away by the detail and the price Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Watchmann on Monday, March 9, 2009 11:52 AM

I'm looking forward to your progress as well!  I've got the kit too, but I have other projects in front of mine, so I haven't started it yet.  I just keep getting the hull out of the box and playing with it. Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Did you buy any of the Hasegawa PE sets for yours?

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Posted by m60a3 on Monday, March 9, 2009 1:59 PM

 

 Looking good! Please keep us posted!

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Posted by Grem56 on Monday, March 9, 2009 3:36 PM

Very nice with unusual colours. Please post more photos as your build proceeds.

Cheers,

Julian

 

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Posted by caramonraistlin on Monday, March 9, 2009 4:21 PM

Enemeink:

 

Yes, possibly later tonight I'll post larger pictures of the ones I previously posted. I just picked the medium sized ones for photo bucket as I was concerned if there was a size limit.

Thank you for viewing.

 

Michael Lacey

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Posted by caramonraistlin on Monday, March 9, 2009 4:42 PM

Watchmann:

The detail is very good on this kit. Due to the cost I only bought the PE set that comes with the railings and had thought about getting the other set that has the individual railings/hand holds that wrap around that massive funnel. However, I decided not to get it as the molded on ones are quite convincing. I may still get the set with the safety netting but have been thinking about trying to use some of the netting from another set I have for another unbuilt carrier that I haven't gotten to yet. I won't decide until I get to that point which is a long ways away. There are a lot of parts in this kit!

Michael Lacey

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Posted by caramonraistlin on Monday, March 9, 2009 4:50 PM

Greetings:

 Here are the same pictures of my Akagi except in a larger format per the request for several members of this forum. I'll post more as the work progresses. Thank you for looking and for any comments.

 







Michael Lacey

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Posted by searat12 on Monday, March 9, 2009 8:08 PM
Sorry, but these are even smaller than before!
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Posted by caramonraistlin on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:52 AM

Searat12:

You're right! Later on today I'll give it another try as I know I changed the size in photo bucket to twice their original size. This time I'll preview them to make sure. Thanks.

Michael Lacey

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Posted by caramonraistlin on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:04 PM

Greetings:

 

Something happened with the previous posting from photobucket. Here's a direct link to my photo bucket.

Sincerely

 

Michael Lacey

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