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Will use the 1:350 Ashima I-52 Transport Submarine to jump back into ship modeling. For a long time, have wanted to try my hand at creating an open water ocean scene diorama and have decided to use this sub as the featured vessel for the diorama. In June of 1944, the I-52 was enroute from it's home in Japan to German occupied France, loaded with some 290 metric tons of strategic materials including tin, tungsten, rubber, and 2 metric tons of gold ingots. They planned a trade with Germany for technology. The allies learned of this plan by breaking the Japanese code. They hunted down and sunk the I-52 in the Bay of Biscay.
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My next project is the IJN Isuzu in 1/350 from Aoshima. Date of sinking, 6 April 1945, the same as the Yamato. This is a very very bland kit, the box art is based on one photo taken in 1944 after it's last refit, unfortunately Aoshima didn't bother with any of the details on the hull, and there is so little reference materiel available (That I can find in English or any other language) that I have to go off what I can find online. I got the flyhawk upgrade set and will replace nearly everything on the kit bar the hull and decks. I could not face a long project, as the Yamato was pretty much out of the box, this is going to be a kit bash. I purchased the Profile Morskie plans which are great for gun placements and details of the structures but no deck details. As you can see I have done up some planning for the hull plates. Its been a slow start as I've been trying to get my head around hull construction. You can see her compared to Yamato, no where near as complex.
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