1/250 IJN Musashi (Arii)

My kit just received a refit and is now out of drydock. The first modernization was to hollow out the 25mm enclosed mounts to make room for a 25mm mg then I used brass strips for the turret tracks. The arii kit depicts the kit as having the 25mm guns in mostly closed mounts I replaced these with open mounts since during the ship's final refit in 1944 only open mounts were available. I used the 1/200 gmm aircraft deck grills. They might be a little big but I feel like it was a big improvement over the plastic deck. I used canvas cloth on the deck cable reels and I put 3 vents in the square housing under rear main turret. I used ijn perforated bar for the braces under the aircraft deck. Lastly I replaced the 12.7 cm aa gun barrels with thinner brass barrels the previous were a little large and also replaced the 15.5 cm gun barrels with brass.

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