1/200 japanese battleship mikasa 1902

cheers nino , I will be doing another 1/200 at a later date , got to find somewhere to put it , would love to do the missouri . their is a bloke on you tube doing one now , looks fantastic , I am doing the prince of wales now 1/350 about the same size as the mikasa .and I just finished the borodino , that was a fun build too . the turn buckles I copied off of another bloke on you tube , they added a neat look to the boat .

Hi Steve!

Wow!  That is fantastic work and all done in 2 months.  Got to be a record for a 1/200 scale Warship and a beautifully done model at That!

  Thanks for posting this Steve.  Great job. I might have thought you rushed as I only popped in a few times and to catch up and I looked in today and... you were done!   Now, are you going to do a few more in 1/200 for a nice comparison display?

   Jim

P.S. Nice Turnbuckles.  They actually look they will work.

Looks great!

I love this painting of Adm. Togo at Tsushima. Your boat is painted as the Battle of the Yellow Sea 9 months earlier, but I think the sandbags are really cool, and you should model them.

the finished product

thanks jlavender , back from a short break at the coast , managed to get the aft davits in and boats attached .

Thanks Marcus , Mike . Much appreciated . Mike the box said about 950 pieces , don't know if that includes the PE or not , as their is 4 frets of it .

Coming together very, very nicely!

Out of curiosity, do you know how many parts in the kit?

Steve5,

Very nice work wiith the rigging.  Your ship is looking mighty sweet.

Marcus

the rigging finished

railings and anchors done

thank's mark , yes I am . slowly getting better at this type of model .

got the other mast in place and some more rigging done

Very impressive work so far Steve. You should be very happy.....Cheers mark

thanks steve , some of the boats mounted .

Steve,

You are doing a bang up job on her. I wish I had the room to build her but alas I only have room for her smaller self in 1/350.

Steve

thankyou PJFN , 

started some of the rigging . 

Hi,

Your build is turning out great.  There is something nice looking about many of these old pre-dreadnoughts, and I especially like the 1902 paint scheme of your build. 

Pat

don't know how this is going to go , trying some scratch built turn buckles

bit more work done , this join didn't look very strong , so I added a bit of .5mm rod

dry fitted the mast's guns and stack's

started on the PE , still not real confident with this stuff .

onwards and upwards

hey - steve , mike , great to hear from you guy's and thank's .

although this kit is 1/200 , it's still only a bit over 2 feet long . would love to see either of you guy's do the hasegawa kit , I hear it's very nice .

Steve,

Looking good!

Following with interest.

Although I don't really have room to display more large ships in my small abode, and, like Steve (docidle), I also have the Hasegawa 1/350 kit, I'll still enjoy riding along.

Steve,

I’m pulling a bear rug for this build! I have the Hasegawa 1/350 kit which is impresssive, but this one is VERY cool. Great start and I’m looking forward to following this WIP. 

Steve

I fully agree with you on the Maine kit GM. I would SO buy and build a new injection kit at that scale!

Steve

quick up date

thanks bruce , looking forward to your build too mate .

funnels ready to go .

This looks good so far. Its funny I just ordered this kit yesterday and this post came up. I'm looking forward to my own start.

Bruce