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Hood
Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 2nd, 2012, 9:15 am
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Another superlative thread of IJN awesomeness. A great re-work with all the usual excellent research to back up the art.

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BB1987
Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 2nd, 2012, 1:37 pm
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Sakawa as of november 1944:
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When commissioned she looked even more different from her sisters, while the reduced number of portholes and hull draining pipes where the same as Yahagi Sakawa had the the aircraft handling platform vastly cut down, with the entire roof over the fore quadruple torpedo launcher gone; the whole radar suite of type 13 and 21 air search and type 22 surface search radars where fitted at completion, with the radar room beign slighty bigger than the one previously fitted on noshiro and Yahagi, anti-aircraft armament was composed of 10 triple and 18 single 25mm machine guns.

Sakawa as of 1945:
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By the time Japan surrender Sakawa had served only has a training cruiser for newly commissioned destroyers, mainly because of extreme lack of fuel; Seaplanes and boats where landed and anti-aircraft armament increased with the addition of 24 more single 25mm machine guns for a total of 72 barrels (10 triple and 42 singles).
After the War sakawa was handed over to US navy and sunk during Opereation Crossroads nuclear tests held in 1946 at the Bikini atoll.


Whith this the Agano class project is completed, stay tunes for some related never-wheres.

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 2nd, 2012, 3:50 pm
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Brilliant work!

It's very rare that we get a Shipbucket contributor who makes great drawings as quickly as you do with such an amazing amount of research and prepwork!

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 2nd, 2012, 6:08 pm
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Wonderful work BB1987!

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 2nd, 2012, 6:17 pm
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Great job!

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 2nd, 2012, 7:25 pm
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Colosseum wrote:
It's very rare that we get a Shipbucket contributor who makes great drawings as quickly as you do with such an amazing amount of research and prepwork!
Yes... the dark side is strong in this one. :D

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Agano Class Light Cruiser.Posted: December 3rd, 2012, 7:05 pm
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Another excellent job. Well done!


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