User Name : Wayne little
Name : Wayne
Kit: Fujimi IJN Kaga Triple Deck
Scale: 1/700
Accessories: None at this point.
Kaga was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the third to enter service, named after the former Kaga Province in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture. Originally intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty to an aircraft carrier as the replacement for the battlecruiser Amagi, which had been damaged during the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. The formal decision to convert Kaga to an aircraft carrier was issued 13 December 1923, but no work took place until 1925 as new plans were drafted and earthquake damage to the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal was repaired. She was officially commissioned on 31 March 1928, but this signified only the beginning of sea trials. She joined the Combined Fleet (Rengō Kantai) on 30 November 1929 as the IJN's third carrier to enter service, after Hōshō (1922) and Akagi (1927).
Kaga, like Akagi, was initially completed with three superimposed flight decks, the only carriers ever to be designed so.
Kaga was further rebuilt in 1933–35, increasing her top speed, improving her exhaust systems, and adapting her triple flight decks to one main upper Deck to suit more modern, heavier aircraft.....this will be a further build for another day...
Name : Wayne
Kit: Fujimi IJN Kaga Triple Deck
Scale: 1/700
Accessories: None at this point.
Kaga was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the third to enter service, named after the former Kaga Province in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture. Originally intended to be one of two Tosa-class battleships, Kaga was converted under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty to an aircraft carrier as the replacement for the battlecruiser Amagi, which had been damaged during the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. The formal decision to convert Kaga to an aircraft carrier was issued 13 December 1923, but no work took place until 1925 as new plans were drafted and earthquake damage to the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal was repaired. She was officially commissioned on 31 March 1928, but this signified only the beginning of sea trials. She joined the Combined Fleet (Rengō Kantai) on 30 November 1929 as the IJN's third carrier to enter service, after Hōshō (1922) and Akagi (1927).
Kaga, like Akagi, was initially completed with three superimposed flight decks, the only carriers ever to be designed so.
Kaga was further rebuilt in 1933–35, increasing her top speed, improving her exhaust systems, and adapting her triple flight decks to one main upper Deck to suit more modern, heavier aircraft.....this will be a further build for another day...
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