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| Author: | M_I_Reilly-Collette [ March 18th, 2011, 9:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Takao class cruiser project |
Since Alvama kindly let me try my hand at her after he had her on his work list, I present the beginnings of work on the Japanese heavy cruiser Takao, circa 1935: ![[ img ]](http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/313/wipcatakao.png) Critique greatly appreciated; the original line drawing is from LaCroix and Wells' Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War. |
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| Author: | Thiel [ March 18th, 2011, 9:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
Not bad, not bad at all. |
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| Author: | bezobrazov [ March 18th, 2011, 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
Again, here's another project where you can easily do all four. (I've made a model of the 1937 Chokai, 1/700, for instance, and I, too, found that book extremely useful for that purpose.) Now, after this, a project that seems to head in the right direction, will you consider the most famous of the 'A'-class cruisers; the Ashigara, in her Coronation Fleet Review Guise (1937)? |
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| Author: | Rhade [ March 18th, 2011, 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
Wohoooo ... one of my favorite cruiser. Keep up the good work . |
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| Author: | M_I_Reilly-Collette [ March 18th, 2011, 7:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
As it happens the drawings do indeed include close-ups of the detail differences of Takao's three sisters from that condition shown for Takao in 1935 in the same period, and some further modifications made to Maya in 1937. I can probably do all five since the extra work would be trivial. Less than trivial for wartime fits, though, so I'd leave it at that. |
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| Author: | bezobrazov [ March 18th, 2011, 9:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
That's be great M_I! Really swell! And, how 'bout my fave: the Myokos, especially the Ashigara in her 1937 guise? Want to do her as well? |
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| Author: | M_I_Reilly-Collette [ March 18th, 2011, 11:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
Update with hull mostly completed: ![[ img ]](http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/313/wipcatakao.png)
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| Author: | Colosseum [ March 18th, 2011, 11:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
Cool, but please make sure the finished product is up to specs... Tone is probably (after Alaska) my favorite drawing, so make Takao match up quality-wise. |
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| Author: | M_I_Reilly-Collette [ March 19th, 2011, 12:54 am ] | |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. | |
That's be great M_I! Really swell! And, how 'bout my fave: the Myokos, especially the Ashigara in her 1937 guise? Want to do her as well?
I'm not really sure, though I might. The Japanese cruisers are pretty crazy, though I always loved them, and I'm a very busy engineering student. There's a couple of other designs I'm mulling doing right now, anyhow, especially the interwar French cruisers. |
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| Author: | CanisD [ March 19th, 2011, 7:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Takao class cruiser project. |
Third turret looks a little funny. All the drawings I've seen have the barrels at near zero elevation. |
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