As of this time, the body is mostly done. Assembled and painted. From here on, I'll be working on the mast, bridge, cannons, and high angle guns.
The main cannon is made up with these four pieces. Glue each piece in the right place.
Now, for the barrle modification. The original is the one piece barrle + sail part. The metal barrle below is the Pit-Road brand barrle. The metal barrel is good for adding details. It has a hole in the front which the plastic barrel doesn't have.
Cut away the barrel. be sure to do this carefully so you won't hurt the sail.
Drill a small hole on the cutting face and super glue the metal barrel. It looks much better now.
Put the barrels in place. Paint in white primer for painting convinience later. Add hand rails and ladder on the body. Mogami had a total of three cannons, so....go make two more....
Now for the smoke stack. Two large pieces. Put together.
Fill the gap with a bit of super glue. Wait until dry and sand over to eliminate the gap between two pieces.
Look close here. The smoke stack rails are mold-on as well. Sand them off then use the YMW's smoke stack rail detail.
Sand the mold-on rails with sandpaper. Be sure to use fine sandpaper to sand again afterward to have a smooth surface.
Add the rails on the side and the cage on top. Note the two silver pieces between the two smoke Pipes are orginally issue PE parts. Although YMW has the same parts, their's just won't fit..... disappointed....
For displaying purpose, I'm not going to place the launchers at this position, but I definetly will if I'm doing a diorama. 
These are the anchor and chains. They were little pieces, but after putting together, they look incredible!
Put the anchors in place on both sides.
Now, paint the whole ship in Hull red. Then cover the hull with masking tape, and paint the uncovered parts in IJN Sasebo Arsenal Grey. The reason for painting the grey part red is to show the shade. When a thin coat of grey is airbrushed on, some places, especially at angles will slightly show the red color. It will make the grey look more like it has a little rust.
This is the front deck. It is not wooden deck, it's Linoleum Deck (亞麻油布甲板). the gold beam on the deck are the settlers (亞麻油布壓條). Add the gold beam on every linoleum deck. There are mold-on's on the deck. There's no need to sand them off. Simple place the beam over them. 
By the way, there are no PE parts for the beam. You'll have to make them. For me, I use the bottom of the hand rails in the YMW PE set. I figured that I should use the Chinese Brand, Lionroar's hand rails for detailing, so it's ok to destroy the YMW hand rails.
After all the beams are in place. Airbrush the XF-79 Linoleum Deck Brown over the decks.
Cover the deck with this masking sticker which was introduced to you in my previous post.
Paint the IJN grey over. Wait until dry, then peel the sticker off. I really like the result. it's clean and easy, but above all, it's saves time.
Here's the wood base which I'm gonna use for this model. I couldn't find a rectangular one in my local art store, and I really don't have time to look around. I'm just gonna suck it up and bear with this one...
First, find the center and place the plastic base on the wood. Then drill the holes according to the plastic base. The plastic base already has holes on it, so just "trace" it.
Drill through the board from bottom and use two screws that are long enough to go though the board and the beads.
Finally, place the already assembled hull onto the base and tighten with bolt.
Next is to put on the decks. Starting from this lower deck of the rear of the ship. This deck is directly below the flight deck. As you can see, Tamiya's new design is to screw on the decks rather than old glue-on idea. This new design clearly makes decking a lot easier. 
Use the super glue to attach the cable to the side of the hull. Use the diagram provided with the kit as reference.
Next, put on the hand rail along the side of the lower deck, and add the Type 96 triple 25mm AA gun platforms on both side as shown above. I'm not gonna add details to this deck because after the flight deck is put on, 80% of the area cannot be seen anyway.
This is the PE set which I have long been waiting for. This set is an American brand, Yankee's Model Work. They have a 1/350 mogami, too, and this PE set is for that particular model. YMW claims that 99 percent of the parts will fit the Tamiya 1/350 Mogami. Let's find out!
Time for the flight deck modification. The rails on the flight deck are mold-on.
Use the combination of masking tape and design knife, sand paper, and crafting grinder to chip away the rails.
Here's the YMW flight deck rail. Frankly, I was disappointed. It's just not detail enough.... Unlike the Asian made PEs, the American model industry just don't really care for the realness that much. Since YMW is the only brand that carries PE parts for the Mogami so far, I had no choice, but having such low class quality PE parts is just a pain in the a*s.....
well, actually it's not that bad after the details have been put on. I'm still not satisfied with the quality, though, but at least it looks better than the mold-on rails.
Grinding and detailing took me 4 hrs to accomplish. When it's done, put the flight deck over the lower deck and secure with three tiny screws.
