Hello all, I have decided to try my hand at a work in progress topic
. I must admit that I have Until now never shown my work while the models were still under construction, being a little conscious about my building style might have been the reason. Nevertheless here we are anyway.
I have bought the Hasegawa Yahagi of the Ten-Go operation. However the ship was stripped down for that operation so I’ll be making an earlier version. The more detail the better, I hate empty decks without props or aa guns etc. (I also skipped over a Tamiya Mogami for that reason when my shop had that ship and this Yahagi in stock, the Tone is much nicer if I should name another Tamiya kit) I also bought the 3 Hasegawa PE sets for the kit. My box also contained a bonus poster depicting the box art illustration.
A little history. The Yahagi was commissioned in 1943 as a ship of the Agano-class. These were light cruisers with 150mm guns in 3 twin turrets. The ship was sunk by 7 torpedoes and 12 bombs in 1945 during her last operation. One torpedo hit the engine room after which the others could easily hit. It is noteworthy that, contrary to Japanese tradition?, the captain and admiral present were saved by the Yukikaze.
For a start I have made the hull, put in the deck pieces and mounted the screws with their shafts and the rudder. The fit was quite well, except for the bow and stern where some putty was required. It is a pity that the deck did not come in 1 piece.
I also drilled out the portholes in the hull. Made one mistake in drilling the holes kn the deck which the instructions clearly pointed out, and yet I made a mistake. This was solved by putty too.
One thing I am not sure about is whether I am gonna out brass strips over the deck. I have them in 0.10mm which is quite on scale I believe. But I don’t know whether it will add much to the model or not when done ik proper scale.
This model will be a challenge since my only experience with PE is limited to standard 1/700 Trumpeter en Academy PE, but it is a nice step up to more ambitious projects with flyhawk and pontos detail that await in the future. I generally put in between 5-12 hours a week, so we’ll see how fast this goes. Apologies for my English, but since it is not my native language I hope it suffices.
Greetings from Holland,
Gerco
edit, forgot to resize the pictures