Dude!  Amazing detail there Steve - keep up the awesome work!

regards,

Jack

Yup, Amazing!

WOW.  

Thanks Jack, John and G!

Those look great guys!!! Please keep up the good work.

I'm sorry I haven't been around, been suffereing from a kidney stone since Sat. Hopefully I'll pass this somehow and be back before much longer...

Oh I'm sorry Cliff, I understand they are very painfull . I hope you pass it quickly.

Good luck, Cliff!

I completed the work on the port side mid deck, and dry fix it to the hull. I had to do quite a bit of adjustment and modification, especially to the pillars in this section. The tolarences are so tight the it's almost impossible to align them. After some adjusting and slight modification (trimming), I believe I have it where the deck sits as it should. Now I need to go back as add some of the areas I removed to make it look uniform and clean and obligatory repair of surrounding delicate parts. Oddly enough, the items I scratch built fit perfectly. Also, as a whole, there's too much to look at to focus in an just one area, kinda like looking at the Grand Canyon

Looks great Steve! Museum quality for sure- thanks for letting us follow along. 

And thanks guys, hope I'm back now. I passed the friggin' stone Friday, chugged a gallon of cranberry juice over two days and it seemed to melt the stone. Or any case I peed out a bunch of sludge and seem okay now. My digestion is still really messed up though, didn't eat much over a week and couldn't keep that down. In any case no complaint- I'll take diarreha over piercing constant abdominal pain any day. 

Thanks Gam. I feel so bad for you and hope you get through this horror quickly.

Here's an Update

All the decks are on , now comes the additional work of painting the red antifouling, reairing the damaged railing, adding the side boats with tie downs, AA guns, island, wood deck, stern girder bracing, splinter roaps, ETC. ETC. And of course, more paint. Lots and lots still to do in what?? 189 days to pack it up?. I figure I'll get completly done with it, seascape and all, before I add the planes and crew (except the crew in the island). They are additions to the finished build anyway.

Glad to hear you are on the mend, Cliff.

Thanks guys! Though what I went though is nothing compared to your lung transplant Steve!!! I didn't even get an infection like Mawright! 

In any case the Akagi looks amazing Steve. If you put up a bigger photo I swear I could stare at her all day. 

LOL, I'll take some close ups, but remember I still have MUCH to do, even to the areas that seem complete.

OK Cliff. I hope this makes you feel better.

I noticed that closer you take a picture of something, the more work it needs. So with that said I can see several areas that need attention. Portholes, bar ladders, general clean up. The camera is a harsh critic. Things you don't see through the magnifying glass pops right out in a close up picture. A lot of that rust on the bow will go away. I was experimenting using a diffrent technique with oils

That looks amazing to me Steve. Yes, I can see a few little issues here and there but it's still amazing. 

I think we're our own worst critics- you look at the Akagi and see all the stuff you screwed up. I look at her and think 'gee friggin' whiz that's a kajillion times better than anything I could have done...'

Thanks Gam. I went over the kit with a fine tooth comb and removed any offending mars and paint splats, filled little holes and such. It looks better close up but I still have some areas that need work.

I received my .01 dia sprue the other day and started attaching the cross bracing.

I had to remove the aft railing so I could manipulate the tweezers. Jeez my camera takes gawd awful pictures. Or maybe it's the lighting.

I need to complete one more stinger here, then there are inter wires between the two stringer sets (vibration dampeners?). I'll have four more to do after that.

She looks fantastic to me! 

And the photo looks fine. I went over to using my cell phone camera for everything years ago when I noticed it takes much higher resolution photos than my camera. I should dig my camera out soon and blow the dust off it... 

The Akagi looks monstrous good.  Almost seems a shame to sink her!

It actually stayed up quite long considering the damage that was caused by the armement and fires on board. They had to scuttle her and she still took a few.

Wow, that carrier is superb!  I echo the sentiment that I could look at those pictures all day.

Gamera - Mind if I swap out the Tenyu build for something else?  I am feeling a little PE'd out after my War in the Desert build, and going straight to a 1/700 ship with even more seems like an exercise in pain!

I recently picked up a 1/35 AFV Club M155 Howitzer, which has an option for JGSDF gun.  Naturally that is the scheme I will be going with!  

Robert: Sure, just swapped you out!

Thanks Robert.

I spent a lot of time on the Akagi this weekend, mostly on the stern area. All of the bracing wire, plaforms, railing and most of the long ladders are attached. I cleaned up ather areas and repaired others. I have the casemate guns to attach then on to the deck I think. After the deck and island there is still much more to do to the hull such as the side boats, folding antennas and asundry other things that stick out as well as ropes and such draped here and there.

I ordered Infani's IJN ladder B set which have those long 20 meter ladders that stretch well over the water and assend to the tubs on the deck. Not me brother!

Steve: All that latticework is simply insane, love it! 

Thanks Gam.

I installed the wood deck and painted the stripes on the stern. I need to touch them up.

I also experimented with some stain and weathering using oils. My goal is this, the only pictures I found of the Akagi's deck, and they're colorized.

Thank you, GreySnake.

Cool to see a vehicle join the party.

Regards,

Jack

Thanks GS. I had that kit a while back and sold it. I wish I had the kits I sold back 

There's not a lot a photos on Japanese subjects unfortunately. Most of them were destroyed right after the war. Short sighted,  but I guess it's not my place to judge. Finding pictures of the Akagi is difficult as There's just not that many. 

Steve: That wooden deck  looks friggin' amazing. Nothing looks more like wood than real wood. 

Greysnake: Very cool! I've seen a few photos of the Ho-Ni around and seen I think pretty much the same information that you posted. Nice work on the interior, she's coming along well.