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Aoshima 1/350 heavy cruiser IJN Atago 1944 Updated Edition


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Are You declassified confidentiality information about 

home port of this model?

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I think at this photo we can see reaction of some people looking one of new model of Kuznetsov, who can saw my model of Admiral Kuznetsov last year  or the year before last. 😎

They are disappointed...

They didn't see weathering at this model and airplanes 🤣 Miguel Jimenez would also be disappointed too.

They look at her like poo-poo 🤣🤣  It is fail!

No weathering, no insignias at wings, no balcony, no helicopters, wrong propellers and shaft tubes.

 

Triple facepalm 🤣

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1 hour ago, Aardvark said:

Andrey, I don’t see a problem! 😁

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 All in your hands!

😉😁😁

If for some reason you cannot personally, then there is one aquanaut:

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😉😁

 

Navigea and the PR crew of R/V Petrel can help me 😉

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Takao-class cruisers have 2 different variants of hawses

 

Variant 1.

Chokai's hawse

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Maya

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Atago

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Variant 2.

Takao hawse

 

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Yesterday, I got from Ebay Flyhawk detail set for Takao.

 

My impressions are still very positive.
I will replace handrails at funnels - they are wrong
The correct handrails are only given in Aoshima/Ironclad detail set

 

I take a photos of the resin parts later
Almost all resin are similar Veteran resin
But 25 mm Type 96 machine guns are made very simple.
They should be replaced with machines from the Veteran.

But 5 Veteran resin sets (3 single sets, 1 twin, 1 triple) with 25-mm machine guns are cost similar to these Flyhawk big detail set  ~110$

 

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2 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

So you’ll be done next week, then?

I need to make new hawses and draw Atago drawings (9 drawings - 1932, 1939-1941, late 1944 and portside, straboard, topside).

And finish editing scans of literature and 3D (Kagero and Japanese 3D)

Last weekend I draw 3 new Takao portside drawings (1932, 1939-1941, late 1944) using Skulsky's starboard drawings on Takao and my photoalbums

In Anatomy we can see only starboard and topside drawings

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Continue posting photos of Flyhawk Takao detail set

Overall view of details
14 PE plates, 23 resin sets, 12 brass sets.
1459 PE parts, 251 resin parts, 241 brass parts
Total - 1951

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12.7cm AA-gun Type 89.
like Veteran clone 

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Resin parts
Ammunition boxes, 25-mm shell boxes, 6-cm, 8-cm, 12-cm binoculars, binoculars with signal lamps, binoculars with infrared transmitters, searchlight directors, searchlights, 25-mm AA guns and some over parts.
25-mm AA-guns should be replaced by Veteran AA-guns. They are much better.

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Brass parts

 

203-mm and 25-mm gun barrels, bollards, 3 types of cable reels, 25-mm AA-guns stands, 4 types of deck ventilators and voice pipes.
Brass deck ventilators should be replaced by resin North Star Models deck ventilators for Takao.
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8 hours ago, SilverGhost said:

Continue posting photos 

Are You going to install all this?  Is this exactly a 1: 350 scale?  Not 1: 1? 😁😁

 

B.R.

Serge

 

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9 hours ago, Aardvark said:

Are You going to install all this?  Is this exactly a 1: 350 scale?  Not 1: 1? 😁😁

 

B.R.

Serge

 

I think, I will install only a half of this set.

Only correct half of set

Because another half of this set will be replaced by another PE/resin sets from over manufactures

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Review of Aoshima Ironclad 1/350 Takao RETAKE detail up parts

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Instruction

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Compare with Flyhawk

 

F - Flyhawk

A - Aoshima

 

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1. Flyhawk (FH) crane is better than Aoshima (A). But A crane is more simple in assemble.
2. FH railings are more better than A. But A railings have correct step of racks
3. FH davits are more better than A.
4. FH ladders are much correct than A ladders. A ladders have incorrect Handrails.
5. FH imitation of corrugated flooring at turning plates for seaplane carriages is more correct than A
6. FH seaplane carriages are more better than A. But they have strange proportions
7. A rails for seaplane carriages are more better than FH.   
8. A seaplane propellers made more interesting than FH. 

 

And 4 big advantages of Aoshima detail sets
1. Aoshima made correct Railings at funnels. FH made them incorrectly. And Aoshima's railings are more simple in assembling
2. Aoshima made window bindings at bridges. FH don't made these details
3. Aoshima made details inside funnels. FH don't made these details
4. Aoshima made imitation of corrugated flooring at the deck at stern.


And review of old Aoshima Ironclad 1/350 Chokai 1942 etched parts

 

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In general, it is useless, except for etched corrugated aft deck

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11 hours ago, SilverGhost said:

Review of Aoshima Ironclad 1/350 Takao RETAKE detail up parts

Andrei, in my opinion, I understood Your cunning plan, when You install all this in a model and build it, for the Japanese government there will be nothing left to do but give You the honorary citizenship of Japan! 😉😁

 

 But it is possible that they can make you a "persona non grata" in Japan ... for discriminating against Aoshima!

😁😁😁

 

B.R.

Serge

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On 3/17/2020 at 1:11 AM, Aardvark said:

Andrei, in my opinion, I understood Your cunning plan, when You install all this in a model and build it, for the Japanese government there will be nothing left to do but give You the honorary citizenship of Japan! 😉😁

 

But it is possible that they can make you a "persona non grata" in Japan ... for discriminating against Aoshima!

😁😁😁

 

B.R.

Serge

Japan is a very complex country and nation - Whatever you do, you will always be only a Gaijin/Gaikokujin 

So, I can be only a friend for japanese modellers/historians

 

Aoshima is not a japanese icon. So, I can't be a "persona non grata"

 

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Small review of 2 Gold Medal Model detail sets - Takao detail set, Gold plus Takao set

 

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Compare GMM (G) with Flyhawk (F) and Aoshima (A)

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24 minutes ago, Gisbod said:

Looks like a ‘shake & bake’ to me Andrew 🤪, is it a ‘starter’ kit? 
 

Looking forward to this.

 

Guy

Yes, this is a part of 'Atago starter kit'

Today I got Voyager resin gun turrets

This turrets - the best solution to Takao class cruisers

 

Aoshima plastic, Lion Roar resin and Flyhawk PE gun turrets - are incorrect

Only Voyager made correct gun turrets

 

Photos of these turrets with AB&K blast bags for Mogami heavy cruisers

These blast bags are the most correct the IJN heavy cruisers

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The difference between Lion Roar resin turrets and Voyager resin turrets

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Unfortunately Lion Roar turrets is a copy of plastic turrets with early version of gunhole loopholes for (1932-1938)

and they have incorrect door and side shields

Voyager made late version of turrets - 1939-1945 with correct door and side shields

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Hey SilverGhost

I saw u do  great work on Atago,and can you post some high  resolution pic shows difference between Takao and Atago?

 

find something from japsweb but it was hard to distinguish

 

very thx

 

 

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8 hours ago, arc1039 said:

Hey SilverGhost

I saw u do  great work on Atago,and can you post some high  resolution pic shows difference between Takao and Atago?

 

find something from japsweb but it was hard to distinguish

 

very thx

 

 

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Hello!

to the above differences, I will add new ones:

  • different location of linoleum brass strips
  • different location and cound of deck ventilators
  • different location and count of portholes at front wall af superstructure
  • maybe different location of ladders
  • different main masts
  • different location of scuppers at starboard and portside
  • different shape of anchor holes (hawses)
  • the left and right sides of the ship are not symmetrical in details (left and right sides of the model are symmetrical - and it is wrong!)
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4 hours ago, SilverGhost said:

 

你好!

对于上述差异,我将添加新的差异:

  • 油毡黄铜条的不同位置
  • 甲板通风机的不同位置和数量
  • 前壁 af 上层建筑的舷窗位置和数量不同
  • 也许梯子的位置不同
  • 不同的主桅杆
  • 右舷和左舷排水孔的不同位置
  • 不同形状的锚孔(锚链)
  • 船的左右两边在细节上不对称(模型左右两边是对称的——错了!)

 

 

thx for reply, full of expectation the newest progress

 

😂only words i cant image what does it look like

 

 

 

and i find something interesting about Aoshima 054055 Atago Retake

that airplane work deck,looks correct on boxcover not on  plastic item

and steam pipes looks like Takao no3 or no4 < not takao and atago.theres a H-type thing on top 

 

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