by Lars Juel Mosbaek
1/700 IJN Ise (Hasegawa)
This is my second ship in the goal of building all the IJN's Battleships from WWII.
Ise was a great model to build, it was my plan to build her at a later stage, because I was just finished with Hyuga as Ise's sister ship, with her appearance was as in 1941. Therefore I though the build was to be a nearly copy of the build process of HYuga, but to my surprise Ise has many small differences from the former.
I used PE from Eduard (IJN railing) and Tom's model works (IJN battleship, horizontal and inclined ladders) ect.
Here I found PE of the lattice structure - underneath the platforms - around the funnel (last time I had to scratch build this myself). But the height was not at tall as desired, therefore I used the lower part from the plastic kit and mounted the PE on top. The combination ended up nice and to my pleasure blended in nicely.
The two catapults on Ise class Battleships are heavier and longer than the catapults on the other IJN battleships, so I made two long out of four small - the surplus PE parts was used to make the crane on the flight deck.
My wife donated an gold necklace for the anchor chains.
The kit comes without the parts of the railcars to the aircraft. -I made mine of styrene plastic, I was not able to determine if the "Judy" planes have there landing gear extracted on the rail cars, due to little information- but in retrospect it will have been more correct to not have them extended as on my model.
The kit comes in the new mold version, but still has some things that can be done to improve the finished model. I made new tripod bars of styrene for the pagoda mast. Also all the braces under the platforms are made in that way. I use a Dremel to cut out all the plastic windows in the Tower/command Bridge and replaced with PE "horizontal ladders".
For custom work: Evergreen plastic strip stryrene rod, tube and sheet. And also thin steel, copper, and silver wire.
Household metal sheet is used for some of the flags. The rigging is made of nylon invisible tread -this time I run a permanent black marker pen though the thread to darken it. I also painted the isolators on the rigging white. (Thanks fellow modelers on the net)
The Gauss cable around of the ship is made of a thin copper wire from inside of an electrical wire as well as the oars in the lifeboats.
The pictures are taken on my desk with two 20-watt halogen lights. The camera is a 5 Megapixel Panasonic, mounted on a tripod on macro and telemacro mode.
The building time was 6 weeks, Dec. 2005 to mid Jan. 2006.
