The Ship Model Forum

The Ship Modelers Source
It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:52 pm

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 441 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 11:34 am 
Offline

Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:25 am
Posts: 2256
Location: Los Angeles and Houston
Greg lester wrote:
Ok, next question, given there is so little reference material on this class, I'm trying to figure out the panel lines on the hull and what the 4 "flaps" are on the side of the Isuzu. The Aoshima kit does not have them but the box art does. The rest of it I have figured.


You would need to be more specific as to what you mean by "Flaps."

In looking at the box-art (I assume you mean the 1/350 scale kit), I cannot see anything that looks like "Flaps."

MB

_________________
OMG LOOK! A signature

Working on:


1/700 (All Fall 1942):
HIJMS Nagara
HIJMS Aoba & Kinugasa
USS San Francisco
USS Helena
USS St. Louis
USS Laffey & Farenholt
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 4 - 7
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 13 - 16


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 3:15 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Posts: 8561
Location: New York City
I don't see anything, either.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 4:34 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:44 am
Posts: 50
My bad, on the side of the ship, adjacent to the stacks are 6 panels that run from just aft of the tower to just under the rear torpedo tubes. They sit just above the armour belt.

I was wondering if they were hatches for coal/oiling. Does that make sense?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 4:48 pm 
Online
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:00 pm
Posts: 12138
Location: Ottawa, Canada
For convenience of discussion, I've uploaded a marked up image of the hatches in question:


Attachments:
3851_0_LI.jpg
3851_0_LI.jpg [ 1.17 MiB | Viewed 3085 times ]

_________________
De quoi s'agit-il?
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 5:03 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:44 am
Posts: 50
Yes mate, thanks, that's the thing I'm talking about. The Aoshima kit does not bother to add them even though their box art does. Frankly it's a pretty bland kit, and research is somewhat problematic as there are no decent photos of it.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 9:22 am 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Posts: 8561
Location: New York City
Thx for posting, that, Timmy. It appears that the actual ship did sport something like that after her reconstruction, but it appears to me to be just some sort of variant on her plating. Definitely not hatches. Of the available, close-up photos of her class, none of the others sport anything like it, at least on a prewar basis. There is a great photo of Isuzu fitting out as built, and her plating there doesn't show these details.


Attachments:
Isuzu after reconstruction, Inland Sea,  10-15-1944.jpg
Isuzu after reconstruction, Inland Sea, 10-15-1944.jpg [ 111.95 KiB | Viewed 3043 times ]
Isuzu after reconstruction, hull crop.jpg
Isuzu after reconstruction, hull crop.jpg [ 126.63 KiB | Viewed 3043 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 11:40 am 
Offline

Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:35 pm
Posts: 12
Those are pretty odd, but not (IMO) hatches--or coverings over old hatches--for coaling or oiling.
I suspect, and this is just my own guess, that they may be strakes added on when/if they strengthened the ship's hull after her rebuild. Their odd dimensions suggest something along those lines, I think. (AFAIK, no images of other IJN light cruisers, or of that specific ship, show such plates prior to that.)
It's a good question, in any case.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 11:47 am 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:23 am
Posts: 3689
Location: Bonn
Welded on plates to stabilise the hull?

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 3:40 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:44 am
Posts: 50
I just got the plans from Profile Morskie and he does not mention any details on the hull (nor any deck vents). The appear to run along and over the central armour belt, but the camber on the front of them lead me to think they could be a platform of some type? When I start making this kit I'll have to add a layer across the length of the hull but as none of this class survived the war there are no clear photos I can find and only one photo of a model that includes them. Would'nt they make the ship too beamy being so high if they are hull stabilisers?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 4:41 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Posts: 8561
Location: New York City
I can't say for sure, but some sort of strengthening strake makes the most sense to me. The one surviving 5500 tonner was Kitakami, but the postwar photos of her aren't clear enough to make any sort of determination.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 4:42 pm 
Offline

Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:35 pm
Posts: 12
I don't know if they were "welded"--I did not use that term--or if they were to "stabilise" the hull, but was thinking of the Ducol strakes added onto ASHIGARA, for hull strengthening. But, I'm just guessing...

ISUZU did suffer hull damage on multiple occasions during the war from direct hits & near-misses by bombs and also by mining.

Also, during her final May-Sept 1944 refit "...the scuttles on the lower deck side were sealed to improve watertight integrity..." (per L&W's CruBible, p. 402)

Those excellent close-up images seem to show no external degaussing cable. Were they internal after her last upgrades?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2017 1:59 am 
Offline

Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:25 am
Posts: 2256
Location: Los Angeles and Houston
Something that I noticed....

Every one of those "Panels" has what looks to be a drain-pipe hanging down from it in the same place.

Could that have any relation to what they are there?

MB

_________________
OMG LOOK! A signature

Working on:


1/700 (All Fall 1942):
HIJMS Nagara
HIJMS Aoba & Kinugasa
USS San Francisco
USS Helena
USS St. Louis
USS Laffey & Farenholt
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 4 - 7
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 13 - 16


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2017 11:04 am 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Posts: 8561
Location: New York City
I dunno. That would be an awful lot of scupper pipes. It's clearly a busier hull than I'm used to seeing.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 10:17 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Nov 27, 2013 7:06 am
Posts: 3154
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Dan and all,

I'm getting the impression from Kiso's TROM at Combinedfleet that she never had a floatplane or catapult fitted, even pre-war. Is my guess correct?

Her bridge superstructure is also quite different from the rest of the Kuma class.

Here's a gallery at another site that showcases Kiso in her Aleutians camo to inspire anyone to build the 1/700 Tamiya kit.

_________________
"Haijun" means "navy" in Mandarin Chinese.

"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life."- Winston Churchill


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2017 1:11 am 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:23 am
Posts: 3689
Location: Bonn
Kiso had, when she was new, a hangar in the bridge (in contrast to the other Kuma class ships) and she had a launch platform in front of the bridge, which was at least tested. She did not got a catapult and therefore had never floatplanes (only Kuma and Tama got catapults). The hangar was removed before the war. According to Japanese articles, she probably got a 13 mm twin in front of the bridge in the place of the former forward extension of the hangar.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2017 1:49 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Posts: 8561
Location: New York City
Kiso and Kitakami never received a catapult with their first modernizations in the early 1930s, unlike the other 55000 tonners. Something to do with limitations under the 1930 London naval treaty.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 1:35 am 
Offline

Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:44 am
Posts: 50
OK, so no answer there! Next, the single 25MM type 96 guns. I cannot find a photo anywhere of one with a circular base (that seems to be fitted to so may kits in the form of deck molding. I'm just not convinced a circular base is right. Is it a case of aftermarket following what's on a kit to make it look better. I thought they were square or just bolted in at the pedestal.


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 1:51 pm 
Offline

Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Posts: 8561
Location: New York City
Circular bases did exist for permanently mounted 25mm singles. It's hard to find a photo from above that shows a mount on its base. This photo of Yukikaze postwar clearly shows the remaining mounting rings. See also Report JM-200-F 0-47(N)-2 on AA machine guns and mounts: http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_ ... MJ_toc.htm


Attachments:
Yukikaze forecastle with 25mm mounting rings, postwar.jpg
Yukikaze forecastle with 25mm mounting rings, postwar.jpg [ 193.62 KiB | Viewed 2709 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 3:46 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:44 am
Posts: 50
Thank you, what a fantastic reference!


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:51 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:21 pm
Posts: 99
Location: Puck, Poland
Hello guys,
I've just recently discovered wide offer of Rainbow Model accesories, and I'm very interested in their two versions of 140mm guns:
http://www.rainbowmodel.com/proshow.asp?proid=104
http://www.rainbowmodel.com/proshow.asp?proid=105

Both sets look great on their page, but has anyone used them already?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 441 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23  Next

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Dick J and 45 guests


You can post new topics in this forum
You can reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group