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Topic review - Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans
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  Post subject:  Re: UPDATE ON STATUS OF THE BATTLESHIP YAMATO ARCHIVE WEBSIT  Reply with quote
cplchanb wrote:
thats a shame. Hopefully they will resolve the issues asap. would you consider moving to another site?


First I would need to download all of my text from the site, as well as the photos (to avoid having to search for them on old external drives where they are stored). That all takes free time - which I had a lot more of during the years I was setting up the site than I do now (Thank the Lord! :thumbs_up_1: ). Setting up a new site would be about #100 on the list of life things to do and frankly I am not sure I even want to make the commitment to do that. We'll see what happens.
Post Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:34 am
  Post subject:  Re: UPDATE ON STATUS OF THE BATTLESHIP YAMATO ARCHIVE WEBSIT  Reply with quote
thats a shame. Hopefully they will resolve the issues asap. would you consider moving to another site?
Post Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:34 am
  Post subject:  UPDATE ON STATUS OF THE BATTLESHIP YAMATO ARCHIVE WEBSITE  Reply with quote
I received a PM this morning from IJNFleetAdmiral inquiring whether my Battleship Yamato Internet website is down for good. I am reproducing my PM reply to the gentleman below so you all can be informed as to what has happened.

"Good morning -

Your guess is as good as mine. My two Lycos Tripod websites have been down (except for a couple of weeks in early March) since the beginning of February. The monthly fees are paid, I have submitted multiple "support tickets" - and have heard nothing back.

When this happened about 5 years ago I heard back and it was fixed within a week. However, it appears that Lycos may no longer give a rat's ass about giving support to their "legacy websites". The angry comments on their subscriber forum indicate as much.

So to sum up:

a. Yes, its definitely some kind of server issue (I can still get into my websites and add/delete/rearrange photos - the sites just don't appear online);

b. I have zero idea if Lycos will fix it, and

c. I have to decide how many months I will keep paying for no service before I "pull the plug".

I could now insert my obligatory rant about the destruction wreaked on the useful internet by the (ever ongoing) hand-held device and anti-social media software revolution, but there would be no point. Suffice to say that this massive "dumbing-down" of the internet's usefulness - and of humanity in general (if you have any doubts about this - spending 5 minutes on ANY "anti-social media" site will instantly remove them) - has wrecked legacy websites - and forums like this one - and led to their large-scale abandonment. It appears that we are the "collateral damage" to the new "click-bait crack" revenue-generating internet economic model.

*I'm out*"
Post Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:15 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
herbieham wrote:
just finished a refit of her

https://youtu.be/qAJzS9nrubc

Your model has a lot of "wow" factor!
Post Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:52 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
just finished a refit of her

https://youtu.be/qAJzS9nrubc
Post Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:52 am
  Post subject:  YAMATO RIGGING GUIDE  Reply with quote
Gentlemen,

a new rigging chapter has been published in the Tips & Tricks Section of this forum :

YAMATO RIGGING GUIDE

03.04. Rigging Funnel Attachments

Have a nice day.
Post Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:13 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Very good, Timmy.
Post Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:12 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
First post in this thread has been edited to include a link to the rigging guide.
Post Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:48 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Grrrrr........ :cry_3:

Thank you, M.
Post Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:00 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
The YAMATO RIGGING GUIDE has been separated into a new thread here, in the tips and tricks section: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=383204

Why Tips & Tricks? Because that is where other topics about rigging appear, and I wanted to keep it consistent.

(Stop gnashing your teeth, Dan)
Post Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:49 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Hi all,
As so many of us ship modellers, I am a huge fan of the Yamato-class. Having gone through all the 162 pages of this thread, I have started to understand that my skills & patience are not yet at the level which is needed for a proper Yamato-model (probably Tamiya's new tool). So I have decided to practise a bit with Tami's Musashi which (I have understood) is an old kit with lots of inaccuracies. Therefore I have also decided not ot invest in those high-end aftermarket PE-sets (Pontos, Flyhawk etc.) but to proceed with cheaper from Eduard. I willl anyhow try to do my best to correect most of the errors and I found here an excellent list from the member "Chuck" which will be my guiding point.

However, I have not found out answers to certain questions. I have the Skulski 2017 book and I have checked most of the existing photos and to my eye it looks as if the Musashi kit has some major faults in regards the portlights (missing a lot of them especially at the LD level, wrong placement & sizes etc.). Any comments on this?

Another issue is the scupper pipes which are not in the correct positions (in comparison to Skulski pages 98-101 and some Yamato photos). Have I understoood correctly?

Thanks in advance and VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO KATANA for his excellent work on the rigging :thumbs_up_1: ! If he has no objections I am trying to collect all his comments into one document so that it would easier to use when modelling.
Post Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:35 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
bucketfoot-al wrote:
Any idea where these photos surfaced from? I'm guessing from a photo album of some former IJN sailor?

No idea where they're from. A former crewmember's photo album does seem like a plausible source.
Post Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:55 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Would anyone happen to know or guess at what the object that in in front of the port secondary mount is? A mooring buoy?


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Post Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:21 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Don't overlook the Gold Medal Models or White Ensign sets either.
Post Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:06 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
If you can handle them. If you're relatively new to incorporating aftermarket parts into your models, they'd probably be too complex and just be a frustrating waste of money.
Post Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2023 1:37 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Upgrades kits for yamato  Reply with quote
Pwthompson wrote:
'What are the best set of upgrade kit for 1/350 Yamato ?

Pontos or FlyHawk.
Post Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2023 1:21 pm
  Post subject:  Upgrades kits for yamato  Reply with quote
'What are the best set of upgrade kit for 1/350 Yamato ?
Post Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2023 12:42 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
ijnfleetadmiral wrote:
Three new photos of Yamato have been found. Taken from Musashi, it shows her probably on 17 October 1943 en route to Brown Island, with Nagato and Fuso behind her.


Thank you for posting these wonderful "new" photos. After much discussion over on the FB IJN page their authenticity has basically been accepted. Any idea where these photos surfaced from? I'm guessing from a photo album of some former IJN sailor?
Post Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:30 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Three new photos of Yamato have been found. Taken from Musashi, it shows her probably on 17 October 1943 en route to Brown Island, with Nagato and Fuso behind her.


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Yamato (front), Nagato (behind), and Fuso (rear) as seen from Musashi, 17 October 1943.jpg
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Yamato (front), Nagato (behind), and Fuso (rear) as seen from Musashi, 17 October 1943 (2).jpg
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Yamato (front), Nagato (behind), and Fuso (rear) as seen from Musashi, 17 October 1943 (3).jpg
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Post Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:07 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all IJN Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans  Reply with quote
Dan K wrote:
...

I don't know exactly how many of the smaller mounts were added, but I think, if anything, she was close to the same.


Are most people paint Yamato waterline too low?


I studied now a bit the issue of how high or low the waterline is painted on Yamato, it is rather confusing. Anyone know?

Skulski says waterline is above hull break at the hull braces level (in AotS book on Yamato and Musashi) - they deliberately chose to paint it higher, but then again people claim the stern in his book is incorrect, so books can be wrong:
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File comment: High Waterline... red hull paint goes right up to hull braces.
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Kure model and many Full Hull builders - at the hull "break" point where bulge starts...
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File comment: Low waterline. Note space between hull braces and the red hull paint..
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And Waterline builders do it like Skulski half the time (at the braces) while others dont, they do it like Kure. It is a mix.
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File comment: Ship sits higher in water, but painted as in AotS guide - red right below hull braces
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So if Skulski drawing is correct:

1) Kure model has too low waterline
2) Waterline builders get it right more of then than not
3) Full hull builders probably refer to Kure a lot and kits, and get it wrong most of the time.

So someone is wrong, it cant be both 1 and 2. What gives?

I ask this because even if AotS has errors, the look of a ship with higher waterline looks more "right" to the eye. or did Yamato really did have such high freeboard despite its massive displacement and weight? It has a cruiser looking hull almost from the side, sits way high in the water. Visually Im trying to reconcile this with the evidence above. I cant.
Post Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 1:14 am

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