*NAGATO 1925 by John Dohmen
1/250 日本海軍戰列艦 長門 (1925年第一次大改裝時期) by John Dohmen 一向製作紙製船艦模型的荷蘭好友Mr.John Dohmen最近又完成了一件大作---1/250的日本海軍戰列艦 長門.製作的狀態是長門在1925年大改裝後的彎曲煙囪構型.這是Mr.Dohmen對於長門在所有年代改裝中最喜歡改裝構型. 雖然有許多國外廠商出版過各式各比例的船艦模型紙版套裝,不過Mr.Dohmen卻不是運用現成的套裝來完成這一件作品,而是自己運用許多各家廠商出的材料,根據資料考證而自製的. Mr.John Dohmen很大方地跟我們分享了這件作品的製作心得,以下是原文: 「The cardmodel of Nagato is in scale 1:250. I used the model of Etsutan, Japan for building this model. Etsutan's Nagato is in scale 1:400. I only used the frames of the hull, enlarged from 1:400 to 1:250, as templates, the rest of the ship is made out of scratch. As material I used "art" paper, bought in an art store. I took me about a year to build her. As research material I used books of Gakken, Futabasha and Maru Special. There is not as much material available of the ship as she appeared in 1931 as of the 1940's. So it was an intensive research to build her. I built the model with trunked funnel, because I like the Nagato in this appearance, it was typical for ships of the Ja