IJN I-400 "Sen Toku" Submarine in 1:200

[rbeach84]

Perhaps it was the worm-hole device? Funny, I've never written Beach's book - I'll add it to the reading list, Charles.

I noticed the 'stand' has 'garbage' printed on it. Missing a Japanese font, perhaps?

[Fishcarver]

RL:
Maj Davenport probably meant McDowell,who took I-400 back to Pearl after its capture.....

Yes, I lack Japanese fonts; and, no, I do not care. I need SOMETHING to hold this big SOBoat up so I can work on it....

It is not done yet, OK?

JR

[marco1971]

Jim, very good work!

Marco

[Fishcarver]

Thanks Marco!

So far, my modelling skills seem to have been up for this challenge!

I'm taking a break for a bit!

MTF
Jim

[Fishcarver]

Back to work yesterday! Conning tower assembly just about finished and the 40-mm AA gun mounted. Most, if not all, remaining sub-assemblies are now complete and ready for installation.

This is a nicely-done, well-fitting model, even resized. I sent a note to the designer [email protected] complimenting him on his work. My auto-translator didn't work so well, and Etsu-san does not speak English. Can one of you out there translate this into Japanese and forward it to him on my behalf?

Etsu-san:
Hello! I purchased your 1:400 model of I-400 from your site! It is an excellent model!
I enlarged your model to 1:200 scale for my private use alone and at my own expense. I am building it here on Paper Modelers:
http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/ships-watercraft/17400-ijn-i-400-sen-toku-submarine-1-200-a.html
It is working up into a beautiful model!
Thank you for creating this!
You should consider making this available in larger scale: 1:200 or even 1:100
If you wish, I can send you photographs of my upscaled version.
Sincerely and with best regards,
Your Canadian friend,
Jim (Fishcarver)

[rbeach84]

I found that if I take a Japanese text and translate it into English, then translate THAT back into Japanese and then do it another time, the English translation is much more readable.

I don't know if a similar effect will occur when going from English into Japanese. I suppose you would need a Japanese speaking friend to give you an assessment of the results.

I expect these translation tools have a more difficult time working with languages that have implied context vice explicit context. As my mechanics professor noted once (he was Chinese), "Why do you have to determine a "nurse" is a man or a woman? In Chinese, a "nurse" is always a woman - so we say, 'the nurse gave me a shot. It did a good job."

I'm sure many such complexities exist to challenge anyone trying to write a good translation program. Where's "Basic" when you need it?

[Fishcarver]

Yo, Robert!
Thanks for this!! Hopefully, one of our forum bretheren will pass this message on to Estutan-san. This comrade designs VERY NICE models with LOTS of attention to detail. I hope that he gets better known, and sells many more models.

Hopefully, he can hook up with Halinski, Modelik, etc, and issue the I-400 in larger scale: perhaps, even 1:100 !!!

As you know, I rescaled the I-400 to 1:200 scale. Thus far, even at the rescale, the fit problems have been minimal, and the detail present is impressive; reflective of painstaking research. I enjoy that in a model, in whatever medium!

Sincere best regards,
Your Cdn friend,
Jim

[Fishcarver]

Hi All! Another soggy day in the Temperate Rain Forest Zone of Beautiful British Columbia.....
Another sure sign of Spring: a 4" Banana Slug (*) on my deck sent my pal, "Big Al" (Alvine, Son of Erskine) running inside in terror to be with his Dad.

Alvine is a 14-lb (7.0kg) neutered orange male kat, 12 years of age......

When God handed out kat brains, Alvie was hiding someplace.......I am his Dad....Ich dien.

Anyhow, and "Seizing the Day", I decided to work on the Sen-Toku's hydraulically-retractable, stowable aircraft crane; at least enough to make it semi-retractable and semi-stowable.

I had known that I was going to do this, going in. This required prefabrication of the crane tub and the midships former, in order to accommodate the nesting styrene/aluminum tube to make up the crane mast; and the prefabrication of a few entirely-non-prototypical paper-styrene parts .

Here are some pix!

MTF
Jim

PS * :Black Slug - Bing Images

[Fishcarver]

I like to make things work, even at 1:200 !!

So, here is the crane, just about done!!

MTF
Jim

[cdavenport]

That crane is a piece of work!