This time, I will make Urakaze, the same as Yukikaze, a Kagero Type destroyer. I completed Yukikaze the last summer, which took several years, including the neglected period. I want to build this ship quickly. I make it while reading the famous Japanese destroyer’s war record book of Yukikaze.
As I got used to handling the photo-etched parts so much, I was never afraid of small parts.
There is work, failing repeatedly; it’s extraordinary. I failed to make it many times. I cut out thin photo-etched parts of the tank and made it again. It is different at each moment; this time, it is like a spherical antenna, maybe a rangefinder, at the rear steering station.
Parts of the 61 cm torpedo are attached and assembled in a state of being moved on the rail with the photo-etched parts. The screw is two tiny sheets of four feathers and is extremely small at 1/700 scale.
Even this is precise enough. When a handrail is installed as follows, it is more precise.
Though a part did not go very well, including the antenna, I almost assembled it. I did not paint on the way and assembled it at a stretch.
I used Mr. Color warship color (2). Although warships are gray and plain, at this stage, it is monotone.
(23-May-2018)
Urakaze is the 11th ship of the Kagero-type destroyer. A total of 19 Kagero-type ships were built. In this blog, I have already made the Kagero and Yukikaze. Urakaze means coast wind in Japanese.
Commissioned: 15 December 1940
Displacement: 2,033 long tons
Standard length: 118.5m
Beam: 10.8 m
Speed: 35.5 knots
Complement: about 240
Armament
• 2 × twin Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns
• 2 × 4 tubes 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
• rotating midship torpedo launchers + reloads
• 4 x triple 25mm Type 96 AA guns
• 1 x double 25mm Type 96 AA guns
• 10 × single 25mm Type 96 AA guns
• 1 × depth charges
The main battery was removed, and triple AA guns were installed, and as the war changed to the final stage, armed change for anti-aircraft reinforcement of defensive power was powered up.
Destroyer Urakaze has participated in numerous operations since the beginning of the Pacific War. It sank in the Taiwan Strait in November 1944 by the storm of the American submarine Sea Lion. At that time, the battleship Kongo was sunk by the storm of the same submarine. The 228 crew of the Urakaze was dead in action.
The chimney photo-etched parts are practical and reasonable.
It is the same as Yukikaze, but I added the rope to hold the motor launch and cutter and put a torpedo on the rear port deck.
When looking carefully, this kit had round molds of the life-saving buoy in the front and the back. I made a buoy when I made the Yukikaze, but I painted the original mold properly for this Urakaze.
I tried to paint the gun barrel with thick warship color. The torpedo on the rear deck is black. I painted the screw in gold.
Even if I say this is Urakaze, there are many of the same types of destroyers, so is it set by myself after all? Because a ship’s name may be painted on a side before the war, but it’s setting of 1944.
It was a critical mission that the destroyer rushed to the aircraft carrier and battleship at the final stage of the fleet warfare to make several torpedoes hit. And against the anti-submarine mission was also important. However, since the middle of the war, there were many missions of escort transportation fleets, so regrettable that there was not much activity in torpedo fighting.
(26-May-2018)
