Hi shipmates.
I have already written a building diary of the Akagi in Japan. But there is no regularity in an order of the diary, and, moreover, it is described in Japanese. I guess it is very difficult to understand it. It is the same for me, a Japanese to read English articles.
Thus a renewal building diary of the AKAGI is edited and translated in English not from a distribution order of the parts but from the new viewpoint of the structures that means such as bridge, funnel, hull or etc. And I will mainly introduce my detail up points of the model in this diary.
First, I send a article from the diary about 11m motor boat.
#1 Remove stands
#2 Remove bridge.
#3 Assemble the bridge with clear plastic panels. Windows are masked by masking tapes.
#4 Paint the parts. I used "Sasebo" Gray. Remove masking tape. They are looks like glasses in the windows. Handrail is exchanged for other etching parts of handrail and a mast is made of the 0.5mm brass wire..
#5 Glue wooden plank like pattern printed paper on the deck. Ink Jet printer was used for printing the pattern of the paper.
#6 Stands made of Kent are attached at the bottom of the hull (This is a picture of 12m launch)

Thank you for your message.

I introduce the building diary of a carrier-borne dive bomber, The Aichi D3A. We have only seven models of the Aichi D3A. Preparing for display, I made foldaway wings for effective use of these 7 models.

#1 Dive breaks assembled by plastic plates. I felt original parts seemed rods.
#2 Paint and attach decals. A scoop was attached in front of the canopy.
#3 Schema of the foldaway wing
#4 Assemble the foldaway mechanism following the plan
#5 Embed the mechanism into the wing
#6 Assemble the aircraft and process of surfacer
#7 Paint and attach decals
#8 Test the foldaway wing (right)

At this time, I introduce tiling Akagi's hull. For this process I used TEPLA that is plastic label tape printer. As this diary describe only from the view point of each construction's building process, there often are other process among the pictures. Please caution it. For example, before painting the hull, some parts were attached on the hull and windows were made..

#1 A picture of the Akagi under construction at the dockyard. There are lots of iron-tiles on the surface of the hull.
#2 This is a picture of TEPLA. and plastic label tapes.
#3 Letter Printed tapes are easily attached on any smooth surfaces with glue.
#4 6mm width and 30mm length label tapes without printing letters are attached directly on the planks of hull.
#5 Hull is covered with the label tapes.
#6 Painted hull bottom. I hope it seems like tiles.
#7 Side view of the painted hull.

HI Mike
Thank you for a comment. I shall try writing about anti-aircraft guns next.
Best Regards,
Yutaro

Hi Yutaro fabulous work from you Regards Mike

HI Mike, Andy and shipmates!
Thank you for comments. They encourage me.

I introduce the building the windows. Although the structure of the window is very simple, a large number of the windows have to be made. When I made the Yamato, I used eyelets as windows. In the case of the Akagi another method was done, because I had noticed one structure near the windows before.

#1 Illustration of the windows. Each window has each arc above. I had to think about something like these arcs.
#2 Cut the aluminum pipe into 2mm length pieces. The outside diameter of the pipe is 2.1mm and the inside diameter is 1.6mm.
#3 Wire of the spring whose diameter is 3mm is cut into arc.
#4 Drill the holes whose diameter is 2mm in the wall. The location of the holes were indicated by the plan.
#5 Attach the pieces of the pipe into all the holes.
#6 Attach the arc shaped wires above all the holes with pieces of the pipe..
#7 Painted hull on where there are a lot of the windows.

Hi Andy!
That is a good question. To tell a truth, we unfortunately lost the shop where I bought the eyelets for the Yamato and are not able to buy them now. This is the one of the reasons why I had to use aluminum pipe for the Akagi.
In the attached pictures, right is the eyelet for the Yamato and left is the smallest one that I can get now. Although I tried to use them, I gave up. They were too large.
By the way, I may misunderstand the Endlish terms. I think "photo-etch eyebrows" are same as eyelets, aren't they? If not, I guess those are the special photo etching parts for the windows of shiip model. I have not seen such photo-eching parts of the windows in Japan.
Therefore, there is no information which can be offered from me.
Best Regards,
Yutaro

Hi Yaturo-san
the eybrows in photo etch are the pieces of metal above the porthole, i have posted a picture so you can see,the etch is available in several scales and diffrent navy types some are just the eyebrow part.The eyelets can be ordered from any amati parts stockist if you need the part numbers i still have them.I agree looking at pictures of the ship you are building can sometimes bring up little changes like this to your build.And i like the changes you made to the bridge i may incorporate a few to mine
regards
Andy

Glad i could help Yaturo, i have found some 1/250 scale on-line but they sell out fast as its a rarely used scale size
regards
Andy

H Yutaro San your building enhancements for the Akagi are excellent, thank you for sharing Regards Mike