Wednesday, 11 February 2026

From AdamC: More Japanese ships (10 Points)

 

Here we have 5 more Japanese's ships 4 Asashio class Destroyers and the Cruiser Mogami in her late war configuration with a flight deck of all things. 

The Mogami was badly damaged off Midway in 1942 and was rebuilt with a flight deck to carry sea planes to boost the recon assets available to the fleet.
Here you can see a photo of the sea planes , They are a handy assets but you might want your 4 8 inch guns back.  Hybrid Cruiser carriers were an idea that got tossed around a lot in the 1920, very few were made Japan did it here to save time an money rebuilding the aft turrets or so I believe. 
This one was printed for me by accident I wanted some early war versions of these but it could be useful later. 
The Asashio Class were a design of the late 30s Japan's first design of greater than 2000 tons Displacement.  They were fast, 35 knots, with 6 five in guns and a pair of 4 torpedo launchers (with reloads). They were also the First Japanese destroyer equipped with Sonar 
The Asashio were considered a very useful design and became the basis for both the Kagero and Yugumo class which were basically larger versions of the same design. 

We have 5 ships of 1/2400 Scale for another 10 points
 
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Sylvain: Great little squadron! Your Japanese fleet seems to be coming along quite nicely. Génial!
 

18 comments:

  1. Thank you, we'll see some more Japanese and some Americans will be coming as well

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  2. Guns AND planes does feel like it would be more fun on one ship...

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    1. its does feel that way but it rarely seems to have worked out

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  3. This collection is coming along wonderfully

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  4. The fleet grows Adam. Excellent work on these ships.

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  5. A nice addition to your fleet, well done.

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