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Andrew, regarding your question it's Hiragana. The heavy cruiser you see on the picture is not Myoko but Ashigara back in 1937 at Portsmouth England. I'm seeing 4 Hiragana characters and i believe is the ship's name. The name in kanji would've had 2 symbols though.

thumbnail_20171105_232255 by Jose Soca, on Flickr



source: Warship Pictorial 17

On my model i made the mistake of adding 2 Hiragana characters though..

thumbnail_20171105_232650 by Jose Soca, on Flickr


Hope this helps!


Jose

J. Soca wrote:Andrew, regarding your question it's Hiragana. The heavy cruiser you see on the picture is not Myoko but Ashigara back in 1937 at Portsmouth England. I'm seeing 4 Hiragana characters and i believe is the ship's name. The name in kanji would've had 2 symbols though.

thumbnail_20171105_232255 by Jose Soca, on Flickr
source: Warship Pictorial 17

On my model i made the mistake of adding 2 Hiragana characters though..
thumbnail_20171105_232650 by Jose Soca, on Flickr
Hope this helps!
Jose

I have this picture and a lot of over with Ashigara in 1937, were we can see ship's name at cutters/boats.
Yes, this was ship's name.
Hasegawa in its decal gives 16 ship's names for each cruiser for cutters, motor boats/launches. So I use all of them for Haguro.

I just have one thing to say.
Respect!

ZoidZilla wrote:I just have one thing to say.
Respect!

Thank you!

Some photos from Tsemess Bay Shipmodel Cup 2017

More quality pictures
https://yadi.sk/d/b_X7Pn8l3PbGCt

Unfortanately, photohosting ugly resizes pictures with loss all quality

Many congratulations Andrew!
A very involved project, with wonderful results.
What's next?

Cheers,

Marijn

marijn van gils wrote:Many congratulations Andrew!
A very involved project, with wonderful results.
What's next?
Cheers,
Marijn

Thank you Marjin!

Next will be hard work with 3 seaplanes and equipage for Haguro (for next 2-3 months)
And my next project is conversion from german destroyer Z-39 to soviet leader/destroyer Provorniy (ex-german Z-33)
from this


to this

My result at Tsemess Bay Shipmodel Cup 2017 in Novorossiysk, Russia.
Sevastopol wins Silver medal (2nd place at models in 1/350 scale)
Haguro wins Gold medal (1st plase at models in 1/700 scale) and Small Silver Cup (2nd place for all models at Cup - there were 220-230 scratchbuilt and precast models)

Well deserved. It is a beautiful build

Andrew,

This model is sure is beautiful: the award is well deserved.

Well done
Noel Paris
Malta

Angeliccypher wrote:Well deserved. It is a beautiful build

Thank you Gabriel!

Guest wrote:Andrew,

This model is sure is beautiful: the award is well deserved.

Well done
Noel Paris
Malta

Thank you!

Amazing work Andrew. Congratulations on the awards - they are well-deserved!

warspite63 wrote:Amazing work Andrew. Congratulations on the awards - they are well-deserved!

Thank you!

Last progress:
The ship is complete, but without seaplenes and sailor/officer figures.
Seaplanes and figures will be next stage of this WIP

In the last days of 2017 was done:
- installed gangways with rigging and tarpaulin imitation
- installed hooks and pulleys at aft anchor davits
- make and install jack using different decal elements
- install swinging boom with rigging (working guys)
- install lifelines and Jacob's ladders at cutters

Well done! Beautiful model!

Martocticvs wrote:Well done! Beautiful model!

Thank you!

Yes, it is a most beautiful effort. Well done, and congradulations on your Gold. Well deserved.

Very nice!