Hello Everyone,
After going through a number of the fine and amazing ship model threads here, I have decided to throw my hat into the ring as it were. While this is a relatively simple ship model with just three pages of actual parts plus the stand which resides on the back cover, it does offer an appropriately detailed model in this scale. There is a set of photo etched brass parts that I am hoping to find yet, I will be using some laser cut railings on it that I do have in hand. I do like Answer Models offerings, they usually fit pretty well without any really big surprises.
As the title suggests this is about the Answer Models 1/200 scale Imperial Japanese Otori Class Fast Torpedoboat Kiji. The ship was laid down 10/25/1935 launched two years later 1/26/1937 and completed 7/31/1937 by Mitsu Engineering & Shipbuilding. She was one of eight 840 ton torpedoboats ordered in 1934 and completed between 1936 and 1937. She had a powerplant consisting of 2 Kampon water tube boilers and 2 Kampon Impulse Turbines driving two shafts outputting 19,000 SHP for a turn of speed of 30.5 Knots or 56.5 KM/H. She was armed with 3 12CM main guns in single mounts, 1 forward and 2 aft; 1 Vickers 40mm Gun; and 1-3 tube 53CM torpedo launcher. She also did one amazing thing that most of her sisters failed to do, she survived the war and became a War Reparation Vessel to the USSR further sailing under their colors until finally stricken from the Naval List in 1957. You can read about her Tabular Record of Movement and learn of her wartime service here at her Long Lancers Page by Allyn Nevitt.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/kiji_t.htm
This is what you see on the cover pages:
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The actual parts consist of one paper page with the hull formers and templates sharing one of the instruction pages:
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Also two pages of card in full color make up the remaining two pages of parts. These are all printed in register with nice bright colors.
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There is one final page of instructions included on the reverse of the other instructional page.
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They do suggest that you laminate some parts to .5mm and others to 1.0mm according to the usual callouts of Single and Double asterisks. The rest of the Polish language instructions are pretty much like every other card model ship, pretty basic stuff once you have a few kits under your belt. I will admit to copying and pasting blocks of text for translations when I first started modeling in card until it became pretty apparent that these directions were about as basic as the instructions that you receive with styrene kits. I have started cutting parts for the hull form and once I have a complete set of them ready I will laminate them to a couple of layers of 110 pound cardstock using 3M 77 Spray Adhesive to come up to the required thickness.
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