Tamiya Mogami

Spanjaard
nice

Bart Goesaert
looking good, more pics are welcome... were there any issues with this kit? have the same combo waiting for a lot of spare time...

Joseph Rocamora
Thanks Bart. Not a lot of issues except for how soft the photoetch are. Especially the ones for the masts. I have a build log for this that you can refer to. Here is the url: jrcrafts.wordpress.com/tag/mogami/

Joseph Rocamora
Hello again Bart, I was reviewing my build log, I just remembered I had a work around for the flight deck. I didn't follow Lion Roar instructions to sandwhich plastic between sheets and then glue the individual supporting posts. You should see it in my build log. One of the first things I did when I started working on this kit was to shave off the kit flight deck details and then glued the deck from the photoetch set. I took the easy way out but I thought it was not worth the aggravation to try to align all those individual support posts (which you have to cut to size) and grids when they will not be seen. Hope this helps.

Joseph Rocamora
Saw another issue, I did not use the anti-aircraft barrels from Lion Roar. Even after folding them, the barrels looked square instead of round. I just used the ones supplied by Tamiya. So, my anti-aircraft guns are a mix of Lion Roar and Tamiya parts.

Joseph Rocamora
I guess there were some issues after all. Good thing I took photos of my build.

Bart Goesaert
thx for the info, will check the build log, thx for the link

Christian Bruer
very nice and clean work 👍

GTKeith
I'm glad you posted your build log. I started the Mogami with the Flyhawk PE and was really struggling with the Flyhawk instructions.