HIJMS MIKASA 1902 by Jeff59 - FINISHED - HobbyBoss - 1/200 - PLASTIC

[Jeff59]

Also managed to fit the boarding steps, just this side, other side shall have torpedo nets in place, did the same with this davit, replaced with brass tube, also added some rigging around boats, try some more photos.

[Jeff59]

Also managed to fit the boarding steps, just this side, other side shall have torpedo nets in place, did the same with this davit, replaced with brass tube, also added some rigging around boats, try some more photos. Final photo not related but very impressive, it’s kind of a ship.

[Jeff59]

Air ship 😂 that’s all for now 🤛

[Jeff59]

Hi guys, just a short up date on how models progressing. Working on 25ft kit boat for aft deck, as you’ll see in photo the keel is far to heavy so removed it and replaced with a suitable piece of styrene stock, looks more realistic now, rudder from Pontos etch set. 

[Jeff59]

Also finished making the last of the davits, glad to get them done. Next stage is to paint them all. As you can see l  am starting to fit up the boat into position, lot of fiddling about at this stage, only two to go though, be glad when the boats are finished as well, been a bit of a slogging match.

[Jeff59]

Also bought these little fellow’s, think they’ll help add a bit of scale and interest to the model when finished 👍 they are quite detailed, best l have seen so far, that’ll be interesting trying to paint them for sure. 

Edited January 29 by Jeff59

[Haliburton]

Simply outstanding work Jeff, time to start thinking about a display case?  I’m always interested to see how folks present their finished work of art.  Scott 

[Jeff59]

This photo of ship shows the deck davit, see its pointing forward so the only thing in that area is a deck hatch, so positioned it accordingly, again can’t say it’s right but it’s in this photo 🤞 That’s me for now, see if I can  finish this same as starboard side for next post 🤛  bye just now.

[Jeff59]

13 minutes ago, Haliburton said:

Simply outstanding work Jeff, time to start thinking about a display case?  I’m always interested to see how folks present their finished work of art.  Scott 

Thanks Scott, have plans to have her with water along Starboard side along to boarding steps and  full hull on Portside with torpedo net extended. So shall be tackling a wooden display case, with a bit help and advice from friends 👍 Sooner it’s in a case the better, far to fragile, plus keeping dust of it at the same time, it’s a bugger to dust 👀 cheers.

[Jeff59]

Another short post guys, showing how I fitted the tie ropes for the canvas in place before fitting the parts together, obviously you have to paint the two parts before starting the rigging 👍 left them couple of days for paint to cure, Vallejo paint does take quite a while to fully cure, despite being dry to the touch in minutes.

[Jeff59]

Next part was doing the final fit up to try and make it work, seem to be like a cat, land on my feet most of the time 😂 be it a grumpy puss, Jaqueline shouts up stairs, your supposed to be enjoying that, it’s your hobby 🙄 anyway, got it together ok, just leaving the horrible boat strapping to do, have decided this is murder to do, the result works, but no fun.😂 Also finished the bridge wing bracing and rigging to the davits on boat deck. 

Edited February 9 by Jeff59

[Jeff59]

Just one more boat to go, yee ha 🤪 driving me nuts all those boats.

Edited February 2 by Jeff59

[Jeff59]

That’s me for now, continue with last boat and davit assembly, leaving just rigging from mast to deck and flag staff to finish the aft deck area. 👍

[Mirabell61]

Jeff,

a beautiful build of an exellent kit-model,

very well done

 

Nils

[yvesvidal]

Your model is becoming a museum piece. It is incredible and I can see the Love and Patience being poured into that model.

 

Yves

[Herby63]

Hello Jeff

Remarkable model you are making.

You may have noticed that I am making Mikasa too.

Can you please measure the hight of the finished model, from the bottom of the keel to the highest point of the main mast? Preferably in metric but imperial wil do as well.

 

As the hull is nearing completion, I have to decide wether I have place to put the model on pedestals or wether I have to put it directly on the bottom plate of the showcase.

 

Thanks,

Herby

Edited March 13 by Herby63

[Jeff59]

On 2/2/2024 at 7:04 PM, Herby63 said:

Hello Jeff

Remarkable model you are making.

You may have noticed that I am making Mokasa too.

Can you please measure the hight of the finished model, from the bottom of the keel to the highest point of the main mast? Preferably in metric but imperial wil do as well.

 

As the hull is nearing completion, I have to decide wether I have place to put the model on pedestals or wether I have to put it directly on the bottom plate of the showcase.

 

Thanks,

Herby

 

On 2/2/2024 at 7:04 PM, Herby63 said:

Hello Jeff

Remarkable model you are making.

You may have noticed that I am making Mokasa too.

Can you please measure the hight of the finished model, from the bottom of the keel to the highest point of the main mast? Preferably in metric but imperial wil do as well.

 

As the hull is nearing completion, I have to decide wether I have place to put the model on pedestals or wether I have to put it directly on the bottom plate of the showcase.

 

Thanks,

Herby

Appreciated 🤛 Just measured her just now. 315mm from keel to highest point on main mast, hope you can squeeze this into display case 👍 Shall take a look at your build log, always good to see other modellers efforts, especially on something that is as challenging as Mikasa, Not much  in the way of help or information on this ship, which is a shame considering her status. I started my build knowing absolutely nothing about her , even that she was built in England or indeed still existed, so it was one big learning curve. Hope you’re enjoying your own experience with her🤛 Thanks, Jeff.

Edited February 3 by Jeff59

[Jeff59]

On 2/2/2024 at 4:00 PM, yvesvidal said:

Your model is becoming a museum piece. It is incredible and I can see the Love and Patience being poured into that model.

 

Yves

Thanks Yves, museum piece, think if l take much longer l’ll be joining it in the museum 😂 your right though , been dragged in deeper and deeper , first model completed in over forty years so l never new that l could  go this far, think the Son likes it. 🤞

[Jeff59]

On 2/2/2024 at 2:24 PM, Mirabell61 said:

Jeff,

a beautiful build of an exellent kit-model,

very well done

 

Nils

Thanks very much Nils, been a long slow journey for me but light at the end of tunnel now, looking forward to completing it soon 🤞🤛

[Jeff59]

13 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

 

Appreciated 🤛 Just measured her just now. 315mm from keel to highest point on main mast, hope you can squeeze this into display case 👍 Shall take a look at your build log, always good to see other modellers efforts, especially on something that is as challenging as Mikasa, Not much  in the way of help or information on this ship, which is a shame considering her status. I started my build knowing absolutely nothing about her , even that she was built in England or indeed still existed, so it was one big learning curve. Hope you’re enjoying your own experience with her🤛 Thanks, Jeff.

 

13 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

 

Appreciated 🤛 Just measured her just now. 315mm from keel to highest point on main mast, hope you can squeeze this into display case 👍 Shall take a look at your build log, always good to see other modellers efforts, especially on something that is as challenging as Mikasa, Not much  in the way of help or information on this ship, which is a shame considering her status. I started my build knowing absolutely nothing about her , even that she was built in England or indeed still existed, so it was one big learning curve. Hope you’re enjoying your own experience with her🤛 Thanks, Jeff.

Just had another look at your build log 👍 impressive soldering, never new it was possible to do such fine soldering especially on those torpedo net booms, hat’s of to you that’s brilliant 🤛 something else l will have to learn how to do. 🙄 don’t think you can solder the walkways for torpedo nets cause they are stainless steel. Your soldering is definitely a great talent to have in your armoury.👍

[Herby63]

21 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

315mm from keel to highest point on main mast, hope you can squeeze this into display case

Excelent, I made a displaycase for my 1/200 Bismarck, with an internal hight of 350 mm, and I prefered both cases to be the same hight.

 

I visited Japan in 2019. Some months after returning, I was browsing the net for a 1/200 model of HMS Dreadnought. Thats how I descovered this IJN Mikasa. We shall have to visit Japan again.  

 

Thank you very much for the measurement.

 

8 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

impressive soldering

Thanks, I had an excelent example (Captain Slog)

 

8 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

Your soldering is definitely a great talent to have in your armoury

Thanks, and to think that a couple of months ago I could only solder using huge blobs of tin.  

What an adaptable soldering station an soldering paste can't do for you.  😁

Edited February 4 by Herby63

[Jeff59]

1 hour ago, Herby63 said:

Excelent, I made a displaycase for my 1/200 Bismarck, with an internal hight of 350 mm, and I prefered both cases to be the same hight.

 

I visited Japan in 2019. Some months after returning, I was browsing the net for a 1/200 model of HMS Dreadnought. Thats how I descovered this IJN Mikasa. We shall have to visit Japan again.  

 

Thank you very much for the measurement.

 

Thanks, I had an excelent example (Captain Slog)

 

Thanks, and to think that a couple of months ago I could only solder using huge blobs of tin.  

What an adaptable soldering station an soldering paste can't do for you.  😁

Think l will look at investing in  this in the near future, could have done with this for some of the work on the masts for sure. Your build looks like it’s going to be impressive 🤛 Are you building 1902 or 1905 version?

[Herby63]

3 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

Are you building 1902 or 1905 version?

I am not planning on doing extensive research on the differences between the 1902 and the 1905 version, but I am going for the black and white (light grey) paint sceme, in order not to have a house full of grey hulls.  😀

[Herby63]

3 hours ago, Jeff59 said:

Your build looks like it’s going to be impressive 🤛

Thx, learning a lot from those who went before me and share on MSW or YT

[Jeff59]

Hi guys, another short post on progress, glad to get the last boat out of way it was no easier than the first one 🙄

Edited February 8 by Jeff59

[Jeff59]

[Jeff59]

I was intending to run a piece of rigging from mast to deck at this point using wire but when I started to look at old photos changed my mind again, decided that there wasn’t any rigging from mast to stern of ship whatsoever , you can always see the two lines on bow to mast on lots of photos but same photos never show lines on the stern. If l’m wrong can always add it later. Whilst looking at photos I also noticed the way the rigging worked for lines for battle ensigns, new there would be two lines up to this point and had run them vertically to each other, this photo shows them spaced apart on the centre stanchion.

Edited February 8 by Jeff59

[Jeff59]

If you look carefully you can see what I mean, so I cut the rigging out and reset in correct position 👍 also glued the small deck davit in place after last boat rigged. Fine I thought must be on easy street now, just the aft ensign staff to fit, wrong 😩 set up not right as usual. 

Edited February 8 by Jeff59

[Jeff59]

[Jeff59]

After building this complicated set up it doesn’t fit in as it should, thought I was going to have to remove the small platform to install the staff. Have to go just now shall finish when I get back 🤛