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Thank-you for viewing my build of Hasegawa's 1/350 IJN Akagi. I will start in the traditional way with a couple shots of the materials used... but after that, I may jump around a bit as this kit must be build in modules. The good thing of that is the modules (planes, pe underdeck supports, guns, utility boats, etc.) may be built in any order, so in case I grow weary of working on one thing, like planes say, I can move on to the AA guns for while, and come back to do some planes later.

I have been working on this model for over a year now and I say prolly another 5 months to complete.

So, here we go:

Kit + some of the pe and one box of four of planes
Hasegawa Super Detail-up Package (Underdeck supports, columns and tramways)



I am also using the Eduard 1/350 Akagi set to supplement


I have 4 boxes of the Hasegawa airplane sets


Wood deck and dry transfer set from Hasegawa


Utility boat detail set


Plus other and various pe/aftermarket stuff including Master's brass barrel and armament set


You will probably see many followup posts from me rather quickly over the next week or so as I have many of the modules done, including the underdeck supports... one of which I have included here as a preview:


Cheers and thanks for joining me for my upcoming Akagi build on Ship Model Forum! -Tim

Starting with one of the simpler underdeck support pieces:






Closeup:

Putting together the bow underdeck support:

A couple of the frame girders



Turned upside down to facilitate inserting cross members


Coming together


And done:



Closeup of one corner

Building a tramway

Forming a curved piece....each tab on the curve is bent upwards individually to form bend



Pulling up supports that help form the tramway girder. (the curved rails from above will be added). I adjusted these on the fret, much easier




One of straight trams

Enough of the pe for awhile...this thing does have hull and plastic parts too

Hull halves (painted separately for reasons you see later)


Drilled out 500+ portholes, and wiring for LED lighting


Hull together, 2 coats of Future, ready for light weathering

Bow and stern deck parts



A couple of the modules that had to be done before hull joined together

Very clean and accurate work. Congratulations. I love it

Jorge

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All that photoetch would drive me insane, but your work with all those parts looks excellent. The whole things so far looks amazing, can't wait to see her finished especially if you are lighting her up.

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Vlad

Me too Vlad ...
And knowing what all this stuff is costing about at my local German shops ... well ... my wife will send me to sleep in a tent in the garden if I will buy it all.

However, looks great and even WW-2 Japanese are not much interesting me, Akagi is an exceptions and I follow this building here from now on!

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Having this kit as well I will be watching this with great interest! Out of curiosity what made you get the Eduard set as well?

Looking good so far!

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Gabriel

An encouraging build, with this same kit and many of the extras waiting in my own stash. What brand/color did you use for the linoleum decks?

Very clean and accurate work.the PE work is a true "monk working " Congratulations.
I like it

cheers
nicolas

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Your work is really good, especially the P/E part which is outstanding!

Alain

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Thank you for the kind comments! Here, I'm starting on the funnel...first, to remove the molded on details to a shadow and then measuring/bending the pe replacements from a generic foot railing set:





Comments and suggestions welcome! Thx for viewing -Tim

Fantastic work on all the PE and the modules. Looking forward to seeing the build progress and can't wait for the finished product!!

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Damn; that's some really nice work.

Really crisp and clean, perfectly placed components and details and fine painting. Great work!

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Clean and sharp. That's what I like the most!
Looking with interest!

Are you still using sort of PVA for PE ?

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Your PE work is phenomenal. Nice idea tacking it down with the tape. Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest.

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Martin

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Exquisite! I look forward to more.

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