IJN Mikasa

What scale is that?

Awesome work mate. 

Currently working on some ships of my own and am finally getting to the rigging, got any tips as yours looks super clean.

Looks big,might be the 1/200 Hobbyboss or Merit

It's the Hasegawa 1/350th scale.  I added the wooden deck, P.E., brass cannons, and rigging from the masts and yard arms.

The ship has quite a history.

ikar01

It's the Hasegawa 1/350th scale.  I added the wooden deck, P.E., brass cannons, and rigging from the masts and yard arms.

The ship has quite a history.

 

Ahh,I thought that at first,but its hard to tell by the pics.you did a nice job, that kit is a nice kit kit even OOB like I did mine

I visited the ship with some friends.  I followed my ship modeler buddy around, taking in the history and enjoying myself immensely.  The other guys who were not into ships went their own way and got bored after only 30 minutes.

There was a neat retelling of the Battle of Tsushima Strait using a large table with motorized ship models that ran on rails hidden under the surface.

I was a little disappointed that the interior of the ship was gutted to make way for the museum.  I would have liked to seen a main turret's inner workings.

Main turrets have been gutted too as I recall. The turrets themselves are plate, mock-ups; no longer 'armor'. I suspect that the material went to wartime steel needs.

As a historian and field researcher (or at least 'used to be'), I was constantly disappointed in the lack of original material. I think of all the coastal gun emplacements and other locales that succumbed to the scrappers torch.

So many ship models are based on museum ships.

It's in Yokohama, right? Amazing that it has survived this long.

A little info on the main gun positions.

Those aren't turrets in the sense that they could survive a hit from a similar weapon.

They are barbettes, meant to protect the crews from splinters.

Ikar, you'd want to get the Zvezda "Borodino". Same scale, equal quality and they make a great display.

Wonderful model. Tamiya makes Kure Gray in spray cans, makes the model easy to paint.

Bill

Mikasa is at Yokosuka. 

Not 'turrets', but full splinter shields. That could explain the seemingly thin enclosures,

. . . ah-so, Dozo Morrison-san.

Maybe ten years ago there were a number of pre-dreadnaught models that all came out.

Mikasa was built at Vickers in Barrow-on-Furness and as Wiki notes is the last surviving British-built pre-dread.

Zvezda has the "Borodino", which can also be the "Prince Suvorov".

Bronco had a Chinese Battleship, the Chen Yuen, Stetten-built in Germany, and a cruiser the Ping Yuan, Armstrong-Whitworth built in England. Nice models.

In other scales, "Olympia".

Ikar, a great book is "The Tzars Last Armada", in which Mikasa plays a role (at the end).

Bill

The armored bridge has a narrow slit to get in, and my 350 lb friend barely made it in!  I was around 160 lb at the time, and had to turn sideways.  

This from Historynet:

Standing aboard his flagship, the Mikasa, Togo’s slight stature belied his strategic prowess. He stood barely five-foot three-inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds. He had health problems stemming from what was diagnosed as severe rheumatism, which in the 1880s had almost obliged him to retire. His one indulgence was alcohol; he would later observe that “No teetotaler can be a really capable man.”

Bill

GMorrison

 His one indulgence was alcohol; he would later observe that “No teetotaler can be a really capable man.”

"Uragiri mono wa yurusan!!!"  (Betrayers shall not be forgiven!!!)

That is a very nice build....

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Ben