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Post by Daniel C on Apr 7, 2011 12:38:16 GMT -5
The IJN, like all navies had a fleet trains of support ships, this is the tanker Toho Maru on her way to Midway island in 1942. Toho Maru IJN Fleet Oiler 1942 Purchased: 15 January 2010 Complete Games & Hobbies Received $65 in access kits I gave to Carl Company: Fujimi 1/700 Japanese Naval Special Auxiliary Tanker Toho Maru FUJ40042 ($39.99) NOT worth it!!!!!! Started: 16 January 2010 / 13 March 2011 Completed: 4 April 2011 Hull Color: Yokosuka Gray (Humbrol 79 Matt Blue Gray) Deck Color: MM Gunship Gray Polly-S Earth Yellow Wood decks Pactra Weather PE: GMM 2-bar railing Kit PE. NOT their railing!! Too hard!!!!! Mast & Yardarms: Replace mast with brass Rigging: Stretched spruce Rust: Othello #89, scrapped into container, lightly brushed onto ship, in downward strokes Pactra Weather Comments: I “think” I could have opened up the bridge wings!! That would have been sooo cool!! Sealed with MM Lacquer Overcoat Lusterless (Flat) References: Dan Kaplan Frido Kip
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