Hi gang, Here is my diary of Deags Akagi. I subscribed to this about 4 months ago and am upto issue 16 and about to start planking . This an unusual thing from my point as I am generally only interested in royal navy ships but have been writing letters to santa for a few years for him to get someone to bring out a British aircraft carrier but sadly no sign. Still I liked the look of this ship hence my going ahead with this. From the diarys I have followed this is certainly a challenge what with misaligned parts etc. While I am not an expert I am not a complete newbee neither so I hope I can do myself and the model justice. I am sure as time progresses I will have many questions to ask. Anyway enough of my babbling here are some pics of where I am at.

First the hull have screwed this to board




Frames screwed to board.






Bow and stern frames will shape these further later when planking completed in these areas.

Some of the metal bits.
Firstly the island


Will touch up these didn't notice some brass etch showing through.

Funnel and railings these only primed at the moment

Paravins

Platforms



Thats it for now still have the launches to do and also the aircraft but will leave these till a later point. Thanks for looking
Gaz

Thanks Andy for your comments.
I have followed your build closely and am sure will need your help at some point. So far everything has gone together as it should but know this not the case later on when it comes to decks and hangers.

Many thanks Ger C for your very kind welcome.

great to see another akagi builder. i've got up to delivery 11 sitting waiting to build, i had planned to build it after victory, but the cross section has got in the way, and is taking up more time than i thought, hopefully when i do start tom will have the official build up and running again.

enjoy your build.

i got my toolkit two weeks before the first parts arrived

it's exactly the same as the victory one, but you can never have enough knife handles, so that came in handy.

Coming along nicely

Thanks Andy and Sjd77 for looking in and for your comments. .SJ so far I not had any major problems but I know from reading the build diarys on here that there are some challenges to come. For this reason it not a model I would recommend to a novice and without knowing your level of experience I couldn't say to go for it .Have a look at Andy's (ARPurchase) build and see and judge for yourself. It would look good for sure alongside the Yamato.
Gareth

Hi Ger C Merry Xmas to you also. Thanks for looking in. The tool kit is different from the one I received with the victory. There are some extra files and while there is no plankcutter/bender instead there is 4 mini clamps. Can never have too many clamps
Gareth

Hi Ger C
I too thought the same as you but if you look closely the lower strakes and the triangular shaped piece that go over the mentioned former have not as yet been fitted so all is correct as far as the build sequence has been made. Sorry Gaz if iv jumped your build
regards
Andy

Hi Gaz
its the camera angle that's the problem but what gives it away [ie no planks fitted yet] is the extra former added to the hull base plate as you can see its number in the pic.
The step at the front [former 12] is quite big at this stage after the other strakes have been added but after the adding of the armour belts this disappears. The stern step is almost non existant so I just planked straight over it and carved back the strakes to fit the stern armour belts. This was my own solution to it and im sure you will have your own ready when you get to that stage
regards
Andy