I am currently two months into reading Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. It's taken me this long not because its a particularly thick book, but because I've only read it off and on a few pages one night, then a chapter the next. Everytime I read it, I'm hooked. It's a gripping account of the last good days of the Imperial Japanese Kido Butai their carrier division strike force as it meets its end at Midway. At the rate I'm reading this book, I'll be done by September.
In reading this book, it's made me more curious about naval ships and especially about their damage control activities. It's kind of coupled to my work as well as I'm doing things with automated systems on board a ship. Stupid as it is working for IniTech has me very close to a few things that I am interested in. Boats, man, boats. I like 'em.
Now, all this makes me wonder if I should be building the Kido Butai instead of the IJN battleships. I should build out the Akagi or Soryu rather than the Nagato. Scratch that. Nagato is awesome.
In reading this book, it's made me more curious about naval ships and especially about their damage control activities. It's kind of coupled to my work as well as I'm doing things with automated systems on board a ship. Stupid as it is working for IniTech has me very close to a few things that I am interested in. Boats, man, boats. I like 'em.
Now, all this makes me wonder if I should be building the Kido Butai instead of the IJN battleships. I should build out the Akagi or Soryu rather than the Nagato. Scratch that. Nagato is awesome.
Labels: fine scale modeling, nagato, well read