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More photos, any questions please feel free to ask.

Some readers asked me if I can post more pics of the progress of super-detailing the Yukikaze for their reference. Here are some of the photos.

Excellent work, on both ships. Do you mind my asking how you did the water? It looks fantastic!

More photos of the progree so far. You can see the warehouse with little people inside, the painted Yukikaze next to the dock.

In the middle of the mountain, you see a small area/ open space in which I am going to build a small Japanese Shine and put it there. There is a stair case accessing the mid level from the dockyard. The inspiration came from Kure in which I saw a Yamato Shine (probably for the crews of the Battleship Yamato) in the mide level of the mountain not far away from the dockyard where Yamato was built.

Oh... by the way................ I dropped the Yukikaze onto the ground after taking these photos.........................so... reconstruction begin...... perhaps that is why it is in the dockyard............... SIGH* *********...... $@&$&*!(*%^!!!!!!

Yeah - what he said!

The mountain, I use toilet paper to build up the shape, and then put putty on it. I then painted it with a brownish Warhammer color (the paint is think enough to cover all the gaps). All these were done within 1 hour, very enjoyable work indeed!

Agreed

Dio looks great!!!!

Not only a lovely build, but very helpful in my own build!

I'm working on a Kagero and the plans are not very good when it comes to trying to figure out what things are and how to build them... specifically with the platforms and whatnot... the few pics I found online didn't help either - but your pictures of the kit sure do! I'm going to have to bookmark this so I can look it up next time I go to scratchbuild the superstructure!

Fantastic

Bravo
Lucky

Both yours and johndon looks AMAZING!!. The scenery looks awesome!! What did you use for the mountain and the building's windows??

Very nice

John

Progress has been going well, now the base is nearly finished, just finished painting the buildings and the crane. the mountain behind also finished. I am very satisfy with the crane, as the crane looks good after weathering.

Going to start painting the ship within this week.

Let me compliment you on a very well done model, esp. for such a poor kit. Many of us wait for a new, proper Shiratsuyu class release.

For the historical record (this is not a knock on your excellent work), Harusame lost her bow forward of the #1 funnel (inlcuding her bridge) after being torpedoed by the USS Wahoo in January 1943. Her bow was replaced, along with a Yugumo style bridge, in mid-1943

I attached two photos of the destroyer IJN Harusame that I have done last year. That is my first destroyer that I have ever done for competition purpose. The ship was sunk by B-25, that is why I decide to show the ship under attack by B-25.

The techniques were learned from making the Harusame and now applied onto the Yukikaze.

Here's another of Isokaze's 25mmAA platform and starboard mount in October, 1944 prior to Leyte Gulf. You are looking aft, past the bridge. (Incidentally, note that at this point, Isokaze still has its forward lifeboats and davits, as do all the Kageros. These items were not removed and replaced by splinter shielding & single 25mm AA mounts until after Leyte Gulf.) I have very high resoution version of this pic & when enlarged, two separate, different colored canvas wrappings, one upper, and one lower, can be seen surrounding the mount, along with the railing uprights and various degrees of tension in the canvas

Here's one example of Yukikaze immediatley postwar. Look carefully at the forward platform

Very, very nice. A couple of thoughts and observations so far:

The grab rails along the turrets, funnels, torpedo mounts, and around the lower bridge face might have stuck out all of 6 inches away from the surface. The grabrail itself is no more than 1-2 inches in width. Despite the proliferation of these items on some great 1/700 models, these object are typically overscale in 1/700. That said, the funnel grabs here look properly scaled. So does those very nicely scratchbuilt funnel grills - that take patience.

More important - unlikely most popular depictions, even by the new Hasegawa 1/350 Yukikaze, the splinter shielding around the forward 25mm AA mount and the twin triple 25mm AA mounts in front of funnel #2 IS NOT solid steel shielding. IN fact, it is not shielding at all. These were always two bar railings covered with canvas. Solid steel splinter shielding for thee locations was not introduced until mid-production Yugumo and Matsu class DDs. Plenty of photographic evidenc eto bear this out for all DD classes prior to the Yugumo/Matsus. The problem is been a combination or poor quality photos and simplistic misinterpetation or ease of depiction by the model manufacturers with the early (1970s era) releases in all scales.

Very, very nice. A couple of thoughts and observations so far:

The grab rails along the turrets, funnels, torpedo mounts, and around the lower bridge face might have stuck out all of 6 inches away from the surface. The grabrail itself is no more than 1-2 inches in width. Despite the proliferation of these items on some great 1/700 models, these object are typically overscale in 1/700. That said, the funnel grabs here look properly scaled. So does those very nicely scratchbuilt funnel grills - that take patience.

More important - unlikely most popular depictions, even by the new Hasegawa 1/350 Yukikaze, the splinter shielding around the forward 25mm AA mount and the twin triple 25mm AA mounts in front of funnel #2 IS NOT solid steel shielding. IN fact, it is not shielding at all. These were always two bar railings covered with canvas. Solid steel splinter shielding for thee locations was not introduced until mid-production Yugumo and Matsu class DDs. Plenty of photographic evidenc eto bear this out for all DD classes prior to the Yugumo/Matsus. The problem is been a combination or poor quality photos and simplistic misinterpetation or ease of depiction by the model manufacturers with the early (1970s era) releases in all scales.

Very nice

I found the railing on the tops of the turrets and torpedo launchers a nighmare in 1/350th so can't imagine what it was like at half the size...

John