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| The following Japanese famous hobby stores are written in English and can
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HASEGAWA 1/700 SCALE WATER LINE SERIES
| IJN Aircraft Carrier AKAGI. |
Work Date : January-August, 2000
Modify : June, 2002
Click on the images above and below for enlargements.
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| Perspective view / 5 Pics |
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Upper, Side etc... / 6 Pics |
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Details / 10 Pics |
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Island and Aircraft / 14 Pics |
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| In Hitokappu Bay, Nov. 1941 |
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Battle of Midway Jun. 1942 |
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JN Striking Force (Kido Butai) |
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| About CV AKAGI |
The construction of AKAGI was started as the second warship of AMAGI class Battle cruiser in 1919. But for the Washington disarmament conference in 1921, She was converted into an aircraft carrier on the way, and completed in 1921. AKAGI was one of the Big-4 Carriers in the world of those times as well as aircraft carrier KAGA of Japanese navy completed by the same circumstances. LEXINGTON and SARATOGA of American navy are also two in it.
Unique form in which AKAGI born in early stages of the aircraft carrier
has three steps of flight decks at the time of completion was carried out.
But since the problem on use found it, she was received large modification
from 1935 by 1938 and converted as modern aircraft carrier with one step
deck and island. Although the amount of loading of airplanes became 91
sets by modification and offensive strength increased 30%, as for defense
power, budget was not benefited for modification of armaments.Therefore,
compared with other aircraft carriers, the antiaircraft fire of AKAGI was
brittle.
When the Carrier Strike Force(Task Force) was established newly in 1941,
AKAGI was set to the flagship and participated in the Pearl Harbor attack.
Also after that, she participated in the bombing of Port Darwin and Ceylon
island attack. she played an active part from Pacific Ocean to Indian Ocean.
At Battle of Midway, she was destroyed by fire with a bomb and submersion
disposal was done herself. |
| Kit Review |
 The quality of this kit is worse than modern kit. Moreover the research
to Akagi is hackneyed. Because it was developed before the above for 20
years. A particularly disappointing point is the flight deck that is not
molded the wooden deck.
But the silhouette copies the Akagi well. It will change into a good model
if in our own way, we do everything we could such as armaments are exchanged
for renewal accessories parts set or photoetch.
In any cases, it is the kit which renewal is hoped from modelers in early
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| How to build IJN CV Akagi |
I thoroughly remodeled this kit. As the result of it, I feel proud that
that this kit was rebuilt to the excellent model. This is the specifications
of Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. But I did not hang the bulletproof hammocks
to the bridge(island) because I wanted to representation this details.
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Reference Books and Video(amazon.co.jp)
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STEP 1: Modeling of hull