WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:04 am

moomoon wrote:Why should the crew want to leave such a lovely vessel? All the the boats should be inboard :thumbs_up_1:
At anchor and LIBERTY CALL! :woo_hoo:

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by moomoon » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:08 pm

Why should the crew want to leave such a lovely vessel? All the the boats should be inboard :thumbs_up_1:

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:07 pm

Progress thus far. I decided to mix the davits a bit with some boats inboard and others out. I had to delicately spin the ship slowly whilst grasping the davits with tweezers - I had originally glued them in place pointed outboard.

Rigging, railing and touch up painting to follow.
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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:54 am

MichelB wrote:Looks good! Are these davits from the Lionroar PE set? I've been thinking to get those.
They are from FineMolds; click on the small pics, and they enlarge enough to get a really good look:
http://www.finemolds.co.jp/www/list/list700.htm

Very good davits - I`ll definitely purchase more for futurre projects.

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by MichelB » Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:22 pm

Looks good! Are these davits from the Lionroar PE set? I've been thinking to get those.

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:19 pm

I did some research into the name of this garage kit manufacturer 104??? by Nakamura Shigehito (?????. This I had trans-literated to mean "104 contruction parts" which is basically correct, but it is also the designation for the temporary shipyard that repaired ships at Truk Lagoon before and during WWII.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%A6% ... 0%E8%A6%A7

I wonder what connection Mr. Nakamura has to that shipyard.. :scratch: ..

Some more views:
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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:28 pm

I attached davits yesterday.
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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Thu May 07, 2009 2:41 am

Progress thus far. I`ve been unable to find another WWI IJN light cruiser kit from this manufacturer.
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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:42 am

MichelB wrote:"... a more elegant ship, from a more elegant age." Nice!

I also received the little gunboat today, thanks! Would you happen to know what colours she wore? I would say white sides and weathered teak decks and roofs, but maybe they had other colours? The photograph in Jane's (yeah, she's in there) is inconclusive.
Not sure how accurate, but I painted IJN Toba per this pic:
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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:38 am

moomoon wrote:Very nice cruiser, love it (just like RN WW1 towns and Austrian Saida) :thumbs_up_1:
Among your french looking projects, are these Hoche and Jurien De La Gravi�re ??
Hoche and Guichen

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by moomoon » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:23 am

Very nice cruiser, love it (just like RN WW1 towns and Austrian Saida) :thumbs_up_1:
Among your french looking projects, are these Hoche and Jurien De La Gravi�re ??

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by MichelB » Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:58 am

"... a more elegant ship, from a more elegant age." Nice!

I also received the little gunboat today, thanks! Would you happen to know what colours she wore? I would say white sides and weathered teak decks and roofs, but maybe they had other colours? The photograph in Jane's (yeah, she's in there) is inconclusive.

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Timmy C » Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:26 pm

Nice looking ship, with that slight clipper bow :)

Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:21 pm

Almost complete - other projects awaiting attention.
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Re: WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:12 am

Progress as of last night quittin` time. I`m thinking the vent cowls are a little big - may have to replace with the next smaller size from the Sealsmodels set:
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WWI Light Cruiser IJN Chikuma

by Gone Asiatic » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:01 am

This is a hard to find garage kit from 104????(104 Construction Parts). It`s been begging me to get started so I did so today. Only the basic parts are included in the kit; spares from the Sealsmodels IJN/RN equipment set are needed to complete the kit, as well as a little scratch building.
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