I met Dick Best back in the 90’s. He was the second dauntless dive bomber pilot on the Akagi. What an incredible moment to be in his presence. He spoke like it had happen the day before. His mind was so sharp. At that time he was in his mid 80’s.....
Wow, what an honor! So few of my heroes from WW2 are still alive. I met the navigator from the B-25 that landed in Russia after the Doolittle raid at an air show 20 years ago. I also got to take a ride on the B-17 Nine O' Nine that day, unforgettable experience. I was saddened by its crashing in Connecticut.
Actually akagi to design as battlecruisers but The treaty of Washington placed restrictions on the construction. So that akagi conversion into Aircraft Carrier.
Programmers call that a "kludge" - terrible design, actually. If I recall correctly, some of the Japanese carriers had TWO stacks - one for oil burners and one for coal. Egad.
Akagi, originally designed as Amagi class battlecruiser. But due to Washington naval treaty She was halted and converted into a standart aircraft carrier. The most notable characteristic from her original design is the hull. Same goes to Kaga whence She was also originally designed to be the Tosa class battleship
Originally the Amagi was slated to be converted to a carrier, and the Akagi was likely to be scrapped. However the Amagi's hull was wrecked due to an earthquake, so they ended up converting the Akagi instead.
This is one of my favorite warships, ever. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I loved the Amagi battlecruisers. Maybe it’s because the ship itself looks good and has a cool history. IDK, just a ship I’ve always loved more than many others
This is very good. It really gives a feel for the size of the mighty ship! Have you considered doing any other classes, such as the Hiryuu, the Taihou, the US Yorktown sisters, or maybe battleships like Nagato and Kongou?
I think this and the Kaga were the only ones with the Island on the port side. All USA, and Uk carriers had the island on the starboard side. As a Naval aviator, and civilian pilot I have always favored the left hand approach.
@Incept_470you are correct, of course, I must have forgot. Then again the the USS Langley, and HMS Argus had none. Hard to figure how the could run the show without an Island.
@Incept_470 Always enjoy being corrected, Thanks for the info. the Argus actually was used for combat cruse during WWII, but did most of its service as a training ship. But then again, my confidence is a bit shaken now.
Stefan Dramiński, you are simply the best. I've got a copy of Kagero's 3D book on the Japanese aicraft carrier Kaga, and is just amazing. I just ordered the one on the Akagi.
It had structural flaws. They couldn't warm up the aircraft in the hangers which were closed. They had to bring the aircraft topside. Once they got topside the Japanese were very efficient.
One interesting thing about Japanese carriers like the Akagi is they were not designed as aircraft carriers from the keel up, but rather cruisers which were converted with the flat top design to accommodate flight operations at sea. The Akagi itself was laid down as an Amagi-class cruiser.
Thank you very much for posting this. I just read a book I highly recommend to all you fellow nerds...."Shattered Sword" it is a detailed well-written book on the JAPANESE side of the Battle of Midway!! I loved it!!!
Yes that's a great book written by Americans from the Japanese point of view. Thee chapter on carrier designs was very interesting in that it showed the different philospophy towards damage control. This is what caused the 3 carriers to sink later in the dya.
Entertainingly enough those aren't sandbags, they're actually the crews cotton bed rolls hung out for an airing. This wasn't the best idea as it added to the flammable nature of Japanese warships.
“an beautiful looking decorated ships, sailed by brave crew, to protect for an powerful nation, it would be Akagi and Kaga” - Grand Admiral from KanColle
Your work is outstanding , it is amazing fact how to find out such detailed blue prints, than preparing texture, and of course modeling such robust model with full details, rendering images, producing video. It is great unique , amazing masterpiece.
The Japanese Navy had some of the best looking and capable warships in history. Akagi, Yamato, Kaga, the Nagato class battleships. Yamato is tied with the USS Enterprise (CV-6) for my favorite ship in history.
it's only amazing if you don't know ANYTHING about world war 2. And from what I understand MOST Japanese know nothing about World War 2. Especially what the Japanese Army and government did to their country and to their neigbhors.
Great 3D rendition. It seems like some of the software developers out there could import something like this into Unity, and with a small amount of coding, create a VR version. Then we could walk the decks of this model. I wish I had the right skills. I know folks are importing human Blender models into certain Unity VR apps.
Actually, IJN carriers were cruisers, not carriers. They were laid down as Amagi-class vessels and fitted with flight decks. I'm not sure Japan ever built an aircraft carrier from the keel up.
Akagi was a battlecruiser and Kaga was a battleship before their conversion. Other than those two and Shinano, the rest of the IJN large carriers were laid down as carriers (Shoukaku class, Taihou, Hiryuu, Souryuu, Unryuu class).
Wow, this is very absolutely amazing Powerful and strong Aircraft Carrier, when thing about Aircraft Carrier and the wonderful Exxes class from the Navy with strong Navy Planes.
A carrier with guns is pretty damned useless. Why? Because the _planes_ are supposed to do the job of naval artillery, and much more effectively and accurately at that.
Nanodesu!. Actually there not. A fortress is primarily a military installation which is there for the sole purpose of housing troops and projecting military power. A castle is also a military installation but differs in being a residence and seat of power for nobleman. It is also the hub of many communities. Cities and towns often arose in their vicinity. So really not the same thing at all.
Beautiful model. Well done. The one thing that really stands out looking at the detailed 3d model, is how little Anti-Aircraft defenses she had, and how poorly positioned they were. No wonder high angle of attack dive bombers were able to so savage the Japanese Carriers, while the low Torpedo planes got picked off. It looks like there is a broad AA blind spot that is directly over the ship. So many of her heavier higher altitude guns were obscured from upward firing angles by being below and partially under the flight deck.
The allies didn't even leave much of their own ships around as a museum. It was too expensive to keep most of them intact. Most of the ships that survived world war 2 were either scrapped, sold for parts, or were used to test the atomic bomb.
Real life = The legend ship with speed taking off send zeros bombing to pearl harbor and destroy uss arizona. KC = The hunger who eat a huge curry rice. AL = The foxy yandere girl trying to keep her commander from the another girls, and she want commander to give all of love to her alone. RIP COMMANDER FROM AL(DC) UNIVERSE Press F to pay respect.
This looks like a 1/350 scale model that's been scanned into a 3 - D app. Why does it look like that because almost 35 years ago a friend needed a favor . He brought me a car load of 1:720 th scale ships . Well by the time I was done I had pretty much rebuilt the entire Imperial Japanese Navy over 134 ships altogether from the I -19 class that shelled the coastline oilfields in California to the aircraft carriers that bombed Pearl Harbor . This guy latter informed me that all of the ships were scanned into a Imaging computer . I don't know what they were used for but I was asked to put as much detail that I could . That's why I think this is a 1:350 th scale model that was scanned that and there's a lot of under deck detail that matches the model .
I am a big fan of Akagi, Kaga my favorite, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku. Odd looking, but interesting to know the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy are the only 2 Navys in military history to have fought 5 Naval Air Battles without the opposing fleets ever having sighted each other.
beautiful rendering. she was an historically important ship, though the Steel of which she was made knew no malice of any man, putting aside the horrible capability she (and other weapons of war) are built for, she has lovely lines to her hull, and a stout resolute structure made for her task. a great ship of a seafaring people, she met her end with honor, lying on the seabed in proximity to the Yorktown. she with her sisters dead along with those of our Yorktown im sure create some great discussions on the Elysian Fields. a drink in their collective honor now and i will post...
I met Dick Best back in the 90’s. He was the second dauntless dive bomber pilot on the Akagi. What an incredible moment to be in his presence. He spoke like it had happen the day before. His mind was so sharp. At that time he was in his mid 80’s.....
blaine monaco I take it you immediately went to see the movie when it came out?
Wow, what an honor! So few of my heroes from WW2 are still alive. I met the navigator from the B-25 that landed in Russia after the Doolittle raid at an air show 20 years ago. I also got to take a ride on the B-17 Nine O' Nine that day, unforgettable experience. I was saddened by its crashing in Connecticut.
Such an amazing moment
I’m related to someone who survived WWII in the Philippines, they don’t say much about it but I can assume it was bloody
well he took away our empire!!!
@@jarrodyuki7081 Kido Butai was the best...
Beautiful Ship! I have always liked the design of the IJN Carriers. Very unique.
Frank G. agree
You’ve gotta be joking, right??
Actually akagi to design as battlecruisers but The treaty of Washington placed restrictions on the construction. So that akagi conversion into Aircraft Carrier.
me as well
Flat...
I like the "downspout" smoke stack. Clever.
Programmers call that a "kludge" - terrible design, actually. If I recall correctly, some of the Japanese carriers had TWO stacks - one for oil burners and one for coal. Egad.
@@Jollyprez didn't the quarters next to the stack suffer from extremely high temperatures?
@@NeekoGood Certainly on the ships I was on. USS Mt Whitney was particularly bad.
I read in many accounts that it was a bad design feature, as it added to turbulence when landing planes.
Akagi, originally designed as Amagi class battlecruiser. But due to Washington naval treaty She was halted and converted into a standart aircraft carrier. The most notable characteristic from her original design is the hull. Same goes to Kaga whence She was also originally designed to be the Tosa class battleship
@Ricky Carletto
For an encore, why don't you explain why the sky is blue and water wet?
@@Venezolano410 Not everyone knows this fact.
@@Venezolano410 Smart ass
Originally the Amagi was slated to be converted to a carrier, and the Akagi was likely to be scrapped. However the Amagi's hull was wrecked due to an earthquake, so they ended up converting the Akagi instead.
@@alanhughes6753 nah you're mixing up akagi and kaga
This is one of my favorite warships, ever. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I loved the Amagi battlecruisers. Maybe it’s because the ship itself looks good and has a cool history. IDK, just a ship I’ve always loved more than many others
Love how you even detailed the airplanes. Good stuff.
Beautiful! Would love to see this for all WWII ships!
This is very good. It really gives a feel for the size of the mighty ship! Have you considered doing any other classes, such as the Hiryuu, the Taihou, the US Yorktown sisters, or maybe battleships like Nagato and Kongou?
Yah yorktown sister
Uss enterprise yeah
You can clearly see her battlecruiser legacy from her hull.
Particularly when it is at the bottom of the sea
Yep the Amagi class carries on.
I think this and the Kaga were the only ones with the Island on the port side. All USA, and Uk carriers had the island on the starboard side. As a Naval aviator, and civilian pilot I have always favored the left hand approach.
@Incept_470you are correct, of course, I must have forgot. Then again the the USS Langley, and HMS Argus had none. Hard to figure how the could run the show without an Island.
@Incept_470 Always enjoy being corrected, Thanks for the info. the Argus actually was used for combat cruse during WWII, but did most of its service as a training ship. But then again, my confidence is a bit shaken now.
Still in 3-4 heck trying to get her
Master Cheez in azur lane?
@@jeanbartazurlane3752 yep
ooooo
3-4 cult
Farming hell, 2000 attempt and still 0 Akagi (& Kaga)
Stefan Dramiński, you are simply the best. I've got a copy of Kagero's 3D book on the Japanese aicraft carrier Kaga, and is just amazing. I just ordered the one on the Akagi.
Congrats , very well done indeed , 2 thumbs up for Stefan ;D
This was the best aircraft carrier of its time!
It had structural flaws. They couldn't warm up the aircraft in the hangers which were closed. They had to bring the aircraft topside. Once they got topside the Japanese were very efficient.
Japanese engineers were sublime! @@deepcosmiclove
Where's the audio? Where's the descriptions? A nice 3D rendering but overall, so much is lost without audio and information.
Amazing!
great job Stefan..Nagumo would be proud to see this....
One interesting thing about Japanese carriers like the Akagi is they were not designed as aircraft carriers from the keel up, but rather cruisers which were converted with the flat top design to accommodate flight operations at sea. The Akagi itself was laid down as an Amagi-class cruiser.
Thank you very much for posting this. I just read a book I highly recommend to all you fellow nerds...."Shattered Sword" it is a detailed well-written book on the JAPANESE side of the Battle of Midway!! I loved it!!!
Yes that's a great book written by Americans from the Japanese point of view. Thee chapter on carrier designs was very interesting in that it showed the different philospophy towards damage control. This is what caused the 3 carriers to sink later in the dya.
WOW! Nice work. Very impressive. Keep it up
Fascinating. Beautiful. Amazing!
Beautiful work.
Amazing bro. Very well done.
カッコよすぎる！
Superb work! Just amazing!
I always liked how Japanese ships incorporated sandbags into their aesthetic...
Entertainingly enough those aren't sandbags, they're actually the crews cotton bed rolls hung out for an airing.
This wasn't the best idea as it added to the flammable nature of Japanese warships.
@@josephlongbone4255 I understood that these were futon style mattresses added to proveide a degree of splinter protection.
“an beautiful looking decorated ships, sailed by brave crew, to protect for an powerful nation, it would be Akagi and Kaga”
- Grand Admiral from KanColle
Great job!
Incredible!
It is too much good and real
They built beautiful ships.
With equally beautiful names.
You can see how Japanese cars are world beaters.
Nice Capture✈
awesome built!! keep on building buddy!!
to whoever made this vid ,,pat yourself on the back for me ...nice work,,thank you..
Montage au top !!...Bravo !!
Your work is outstanding , it is amazing fact how to find out such detailed blue prints, than preparing texture, and of course modeling such robust model with full details, rendering images, producing video. It is great unique , amazing masterpiece.
3/4 century ago. We Japanese had many carriers・・・amazeing fact !
and even now. It fascinates many people
taka top I have always known that
but its fascinating indeed
taka top indeed... I hope you could build an Aircraft Carrier once more 😞 I mean not a Helicopter Carrier like the 4 you have right now.
With the F-35 or something like it, you do have aircraft carriers. It's not lost on the world.
The Japanese Navy had some of the best looking and capable warships in history. Akagi, Yamato, Kaga, the Nagato class battleships. Yamato is tied with the USS Enterprise (CV-6) for my favorite ship in history.
it's only amazing if you don't know ANYTHING about world war 2. And from what I understand MOST Japanese know nothing about World War 2. Especially what the Japanese Army and government did to their country and to their neigbhors.
Positively beautiful! I'm just a beginner 3D modeller and I aspire to be able to create works of art like this
Really enjoyed your exellent work - very well done.
Beautiful render, had to run the video twice at half speed to catch all the detail.
Beautiful
That's awesome. Well done.
Beautiful work, amazing ship design.
Amazing, Beautiful.Really good work sir.Thanks for sharing.
Great 3D rendition. It seems like some of the software developers out there could import something like this into Unity, and with a small amount of coding, create a VR version. Then we could walk the decks of this model. I wish I had the right skills. I know folks are importing human Blender models into certain Unity VR apps.
Beautiful modeling
great job!
beautiful! well done
Well done, VERY well done!!
Very nice.
Thank you.
Beautiful.
I'd love to see one done,the way it looks on the ocean floor now.
she is a beauty aint she ?
Wooden deck,..no catapult,...one elevator. Very nice video! Shinano would be nice!
nice job!
This ship was laid down in 1920.
In other words, Japan has technology to make an aircraft carrier about a century ago.
how about their airplanes?, Zero was one of the best planes in earlier WW2.
Actually, IJN carriers were cruisers, not carriers. They were laid down as Amagi-class vessels and fitted with flight decks. I'm not sure Japan ever built an aircraft carrier from the keel up.
the shokaku class as well as hiryu and soryu were laid down and built as carriers
Akagi was a battlecruiser and Kaga was a battleship before their conversion. Other than those two and Shinano, the rest of the IJN large carriers were laid down as carriers (Shoukaku class, Taihou, Hiryuu, Souryuu, Unryuu class).
@@MrFoFuVideos Taiho too.
Converted to a very large submarine at Midway...
More like an ocean floor decorative piece of furniture.
coral reef
Hotel for fishies
Just like USS Yorktown
@@chandrachacha4964 and then there's Yamato which goes from a floating hotel with guns to underwater hotel with guns
nicely done
A fine looking ship.
Very well done!
Ship model makers are obsessive compulsives on steroids. Incredible detail.
Great video
Awesome detail.
3D looks so realistic.
The problem with carrier conversion is that converted ships looks like something "mounted up".
Kaga looks like something mounted up. I find Akagi much more beautiful even if her lines shows its a hybrid.
@@vlad78th Akagi looked more streamlined
Great job
Are those sandbags or life preservers on the tower and AA gun polar forms ?
These are sailors' rolled hammocks
Wow, this is very absolutely amazing Powerful and strong Aircraft Carrier, when thing about Aircraft Carrier and the wonderful Exxes class from the Navy with strong Navy Planes.
What is perceived as light gray is actually a pale green on the A6m2's. The light gray zero is a myth that is hard to shut down.
I like the akagi when it had the large caliber guns up the bow... the akagi looked something very menacing and dangerous.
A carrier with guns is pretty damned useless. Why? Because the _planes_ are supposed to do the job of naval artillery, and much more effectively and accurately at that.
She also had a triple layer flight deck when she was first built
The Akagi was recently discovered by the research vessel RV Petrel along with the Kaga.
incredible work, respect, simply fantastic to look at, please do more of it. 🫵👌👏👍🫵👌👏👍
the pride of the Kido Butai. The flagship. The Akagi, "red fortress" in english.
Always thought red castle, not fortress
Nanodesu!. Actually there not. A fortress is primarily a military installation which is there for the sole purpose of housing troops and projecting military power. A castle is also a military installation but differs in being a residence and seat of power for nobleman. It is also the hub of many communities. Cities and towns often arose in their vicinity. So really not the same thing at all.
Akagi =Mount Akagi (Gunma Prefecture)
Beautiful model. Well done. The one thing that really stands out looking at the detailed 3d model, is how little Anti-Aircraft defenses she had, and how poorly positioned they were. No wonder high angle of attack dive bombers were able to so savage the Japanese Carriers, while the low Torpedo planes got picked off. It looks like there is a broad AA blind spot that is directly over the ship. So many of her heavier higher altitude guns were obscured from upward firing angles by being below and partially under the flight deck.
Would be totally awesome if someone could do a 3D rendering of the inside of a ship
I like this stuff, as I 3D model ships and planes from WW2.
Awesome!Subbed!👍👍👍
Wonderful!
Man! The allied forces didn't left anything for the axis to preserve as a museum ship!
A_Certain_Weird_War_Machine actually there are german subs that's well preserved and become a museum piece, atleast one of them become a mock museum.
The allies didn't even leave much of their own ships around as a museum. It was too expensive to keep most of them intact.
Most of the ships that survived world war 2 were either scrapped, sold for parts, or were used to test the atomic bomb.
Wasn't that Nelson in your profile pic? You're truly a man of culture as well.
There are some Japanese built ships in Thailand
All hail the Bauxite Queen Carrier
It's weird that IJN Akagi and Kaga are in their own separate classes of ships despite their similar appearances
They were both conversions.
Stephan should have a view portraying a Dauntless bombsight viewing the ship in an attack position. That would be marvelous.
Real life = The legend ship with speed taking off send zeros bombing to pearl harbor and destroy uss arizona.
KC = The hunger who eat a huge curry rice.
AL = The foxy yandere girl trying to keep her commander from the another girls, and she want commander to give all of love to her alone.
RIP COMMANDER FROM AL(DC) UNIVERSE
Press F to pay respect.
I love this carrier it's like a symbol of Imperial navy's might! Banzai!!
好厉害！！！！（Nice work！） ：D
Great vid. At least the ship is is currently on the bottom of the ocean , where it belongs.
Wonderful.
カッコいい！綺麗！
Beautiful ship.
Wait why does Akagis hull looks like a cruiser?
Originally she was supposed to be an Amagi class Battlecruiser, but was turned into an Aircraft Carrier instead.
She was originally planned as a battlecruiser but due to Washington Naval Treaty she was converted to an aircraft carrier
This looks like a 1/350 scale model that's been scanned into a 3 - D app.
Why does it look like that because almost 35 years ago a friend needed a favor .
He brought me a car load of 1:720 th scale ships . Well by the time I was done I had pretty much rebuilt the entire Imperial Japanese Navy over 134 ships altogether from the I -19 class that shelled the coastline oilfields in California to the aircraft carriers that bombed Pearl Harbor .
This guy latter informed me that all of the ships were scanned into a Imaging computer .
I don't know what they were used for but I was asked to put as much detail that I could .
That's why I think this is a 1:350 th scale model that was scanned that and there's a lot of under deck detail that matches the model .
With that funnel hanging over the side it must have sucked having your GQ station in one of the after gun mount stations.
I am a big fan of Akagi, Kaga my favorite, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku. Odd looking, but interesting to know the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy are the only 2 Navys in military history to have fought 5 Naval Air Battles without the opposing fleets ever having sighted each other.
Perfection
Nice! 🎯
wow cool
Just came back yo this vid to see how meny comments with "they found her"
beautiful rendering. she was an historically important ship, though the Steel of which she was made knew no malice of any man, putting aside the horrible capability she (and other weapons of war) are built for, she has lovely lines to her hull, and a stout resolute structure made for her task. a great ship of a seafaring people, she met her end with honor, lying on the seabed in proximity to the Yorktown. she with her sisters dead along with those of our Yorktown im sure create some great discussions on the Elysian Fields. a drink in their collective honor now and i will post...
"First Carrier Division Akagi." Akagi of the Sakura Empire.
Who built this model? That is spectacular workmanship.
I hope you plan to do this with the other three carriers lost at Midway, then the Yamato and Musashi.
Wait there was music in this video??