It is the limited edition destroyer Hatsuharu (early spring). Since the etching parts are included in the kit from the beginning, it may be easy to start. I hope Aoshima sells kits, including photo-etched parts, not to be limited, but always selling items.
I think the photo-etched parts are a little, so it is suitable for beginners like me to work on.
Oh, there is a waterline series with weight still on sale.
It is my first marvelous mind that I am glad that a feeling of precision by using the photo-etched parts at various places with a ship model. This feeling is precious.
Too detailed and doesn’t work efficiently, but it’s fascinating. I like painting, usually, but it is also best that the destroyer becomes cool in such fine work.
(12-Mar-2017)
I completed the assembly while struggling with instant adhesives and small parts. Have I proceeded to assemble too much? How about painting? I think the sense of precision is much more than the plastic parts-only kit.
Fujimi’s Yukikaze, which has been too tricky for around two years and is not going forward, maybe successfully assembled now. But, I would like to make a big battleship now. I could build in the photo-etched parts in this Hatsuharu.
I’m now in the painting process. I blew the ship’s bottom color and masked it.
(19-Mar-2017)
First-class destroyer Hatsuharu was completed. I made Nenohi a little while ago and made the same type of ship again. It is the same manufacturer, Aoshima, but this time weaponry was the 1941 version, changed, such as the main gun. I used the photo-etched parts more than before, and a nice finish, I suppose.
Because it was a destroyer with abundant weapons in a small hall due to the London Naval Disarmament Treaty’s effect, restoring power was a problem.
Hatsuharu belongs to No.21 Destroyer of the 1st Torpedo Squadron and was on anti-submarine patrol duty, etc. In 1942, she was attacked and damaged mainly by US military aircraft on her way to Kiska Island, and after that, she made a major repair in Maizuru in 1943. After returning to the battlefield, Hatsuharu took various missions, but in November 1944, she was sunk by the attack of the US Tactical Force carrier in Manila Bay. At the same time, the light cruiser Kiso and the other three destroyers also sank.
Commissioned: 30 September 1933
Displacement: 1,400 long tons
Standard length: 109.5m
Beam: 10.0 m
Speed: 36.5 knots
Complement: about 200
Armament
• two × twins, 1 × single Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns
• 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
• 3 × triple 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
• 18 × depth charges
The deck of linoleum is handled with brush painting. It was finished successfully.
I tried putting two oars on the small boat and six oars on all the cutters (short boats).
Perhaps the structure that sticks to the stern is called a propeller boom. It is attached to the upper side to protect the screw during anchoring. Really? There was no written detail in the leaflet I often refer to. The searchlight is an explicit part, and the light’s back was painted silver to shine.
Sidelight is finished in red and green and has clear coatings. Look hard, and you can see them.
This handrail photo-etched parts are attached with a margin, which is bent at a right angle to adhere to the edge of the deck. I bent 90 degrees after gluing, or the first bent this margin and attached it to the body. I tried both. It is easier to bend the bonded parts and then adhere them to the hull.
The davids of photo-etched are used by folding from the middle to get thickness. It is tough to install properly. It was hard for me. I wonder if I will get used to this kind of work repeatedly.
The Rising Sun flag included in the Aoshima was a thick decal, so I used a Hasegawa water decal. Also, I tried raising the Japanese flag by practicing putting on the rope line on the rear mast. I do not know the actual operation, but it got an accent anyway. I think that it is the best work in the ship model I have made up to now.
(24-Mar-2017)
