IJN HARUNA |
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As seen in 1945 |
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Hasegawa no.111 Scale 1:700 Read how I build the kit on the bottom of this page Click on the pictures to enlarge. |
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Haruna history:
Haruna (榛名) was a Kongo class battleship (one of four) laid down by the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Company at Kobe on 16 March 1912, launched on 14 December 1913 and completed on 19 April 1915. She was named after Mount Haruna, an active volcano. In World War II Haruna provided distant cover for the Dutch East Indies invasion forces in January and February 1942, sortied into the Indian Ocean against the British Eastern Fleet with the Carrier Striking Force in April 1942, participated in the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Battle of Santa Cruz Island on 25 October 1942, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, and the Battle off Samar in October 1944. Haruna was attacked by enemy American carrier aircraft of Task Force 38 and B-24 bombers of the United States Army Air Forces while at Kure on 28 July 1945 and sank at her moorings with the loss of 65 of her crew, was stricken from the Navy List on 20 November 1945 and her hulk raised and broken up in 1946-1948. (From Wikipedia) Technical specification: Launched 14.12.1913 Completed 19.41.1915 Rebuild in 1928, 1934, 1944, 1945 Sunk 28.07.1945 with the lives of 65 sailors displacement: 40,250 tons (1945) length: 222 m beam: 31.02 m draught: 9.72 m ship horse power: 136,000 Shp. speed : 25,9 knots main guns 8 (4x2) 14´ = 35,6 cm secondary guns 8 (8x1) 6´= 15,5 cm medium guns AA 12 (6x2) 5´=12.7 cm light guns AA 118 (30x3)+ (2x2)+ (24x1) 25mm 30 depth charges 3 aircraft (JAKE) 1 catapult crew: 1500+ Build process: Hasegawa kits of the Kongo-class battleships is to my knowledge from 1994, so I must say that they are not very realistic in detail and has a lot to be desired regarding the other kits like Tamiya´s Yamato or Hasegawa new mould BB ISE. But as a friend said to me " there is no bad or poor kits - just some that needs more work and attention" .It was with that attitude I started the build of IJN HARUNA. I brought this kit "used" from a fellow modeler with some of the parts glued together so it was more labor extensive than it needed to be! (but also fun). When some as I decide to have the hole fleet of the IJN Battleships it maybe can be a dull experience to build four nearly identical ships as these ships in this class represents, but the more I found out about these ships the more I realizes that they have more different appearances than at first. I want to build the model as seen in 1945 configuration with lots of extra "balcony's" of 25mm anti aircraft guns (118) and also the extensive rebuilding of the pagoda super structure was a attractive goal for me. Some of the methods in building this particular model is the same as for example my YAMATO so please see the build process of YAMATO. New methods I used on Haruna was: Hull: The kit comes with all the portholes on the hull ready to drill out, but I closed the one needed with styrene bars cut in small slices and after sanded the hull down so the closed portholes nearly was visible -but seen in retrospect after some coat of paint and varnish I should have made them thicker to show on the finish model. furthermore on all the open portholes I attached the eyebrows with small pieces of copper wire. The DeGauss wire around the ship was this time the PE set from Lion Roar (WWII IJN Outboard Circuit LE 700016).
Anti splinter mattress and ropes: The lines is made of copper wire but the anti splinter ropes is made by a tip from Mr. Jeff Linn in Taiwan with putty formed with a help of the saw blades teeth's see the link here: http://blog.yam.com/duroyal420/archives/1681493.html
This time I took the photos in both sunlight and overcast weather to enhance the details in different light conditions. The "JAKE" aircraft is attached to the ships catapult by a small wire, I painted the wire over in Photo Shop. In picture #2 I altered
the color of the sea to a more bluish tone.
Reference: Books from my own library: Die Japanischen Kriegsschiffe 1869-1945 by Hansgorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, Peter Michel Japanese Warships of World War II by A.J.Watts Conway´s All the World´s Fighting ships 1906-1921, 1922-1946 Also thank for the references from the net: Mr.Koji Okamoto Haruna 1/150 (1934) http://www.tcn.ne.jp/~eguchi/okamoto/okamoto-top.htm Mr. Tomoya Kawai (tkinfo) Haruna 1/700 (1944) http://www.geocities.jp/tkinfo_homepage/model/model.html And all of the pictures I could find regarding the subject. Now the model of HARUNA is done I can look back on a job with many hours of fun building -As I highly can recommend to others who will have a model that is not out of the box. - and NOT what so ever a dull build.
The building time approx 7 weeks. |
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