JSC 1/400 Mikasa - Page 2

**Royaloakmin** · #11 02-04-2013, 08:10 AM

Very nice work?

**didibuch** · #12 02-06-2013, 10:27 AM

A good looking model and an interesting ship. Congratulations.

Dieter

**Kevin WS** · #13 02-11-2013, 12:31 AM

Great job!

**Don Boose** · #14 02-11-2013, 08:21 AM

I enjoyed reading through this thread and examining the images. I like Japanese ships, once visited Mikasa, and have two copies of this model (one spare since I will inevitably mess up the first attempt) that I hope to build some day.

I like your idea of reinforcing the deck with card to provide a gluing surface instead of using tabs. You also overcame some design flaws and an error like that most of us tend to make in intepreting the instructions. Descriptions of those processes are really valuable.

The finished model looks great. I can only hope that mine looks half as good when and if I try to build it. You have provided an excellent reference (and a fine-looking model of a historic ship).

Don

**Robert Woolley** · #15 02-13-2013, 03:03 AM

Thank you every one for your kind words. Don, I visited Mikasa in 1995 while I was living in Japan. I also saw the gun off the Mutsu at the Tokyo Maratime Museum and visited the dock where Yamato was made at Kure. There was an old small museum there then, a fantastic new one now that I haven't been to. The sad thing is, back then I was interested in the ships of war, but not the history so much. So I didn't know about Tsushima or the Yamato's last mission and so on. Now that the history engrosses me so much, I want to go back and look at them with new eyes.
The Mikasa is not quite finished. It still needs boats and ventilation pipes etc. I will get back to these soon. I left it to start the JSC Askold. I started a thread on that elsewhere.