Phil has kindly taken time out of his Japaneses holiday to tour Mikasa for us. As our Liberte’ backers will know Mikasa is coming very soon to BS:EoS.
Hope you enjoy this excellent visual tour of this classic and history making pre-dred. Thanks Phil!
Here is her wiki entry. Don’t forget that she spent a great deal of time on the bottom of the harbour so her paint and deck colours are not original.
So she appears ‘Battleship Grey’ on a overcast rainy day. But here in the wiki photo below she is almost white in the bright sun!
For those of us that have stood on HMS Victory, this gun deck will look very familiar!
A good reminder here about deck colours. There are so many different shades of brown just in this one photo. Remember the crew would have holy-stoned this deck when she was in service, so it would have been different again!
Too nice a carpet to drop hot shell cases on to, no?
I did a 1/700 diorama of HIKAWA MARU passing MIKASA. About 5 years ago. Nice way to bring 60 years of plastic modeling to an end. How far apart are these 2 very lucky museum ships moored?
I’m very impressed with your excellent bases and I’d like to obtain some. Any help you can give me would be most appreciated. Believe it or not, when I was in the US Coast Guard I was stationed on a lightship and it was my job to wind and set the Chelsea bell striker clock. A few years ago I contracted with a Dutch firm to have a bell striker custom made. It is my pride and joy.
Very nice! Ding Ding!
Very happy to send you bases. Email us or request via FB chat for more info Richard.