baseballbrat wrote:
You would think that this new kit would have all the inaccuracies corrected and additional PE Sheets would not be necessary. With the price of $650+ knowing that to correct issues will bring the total price to about $1000 will be too steep for some.
Sometimes I think that kit manufactures know their projects are inaccurate, but due to deadlines and cost, they just put them out on the market and consider it done.
I would wait and watch for builds online. The more information out there the better. Look at the bright side, who has a bench long enough to set this monster of a hull down to work on it?
Hi!
I think too, that manufactures are inaccurate, for producing Aftermarket Sets.
I heard the story, that the Shipyard who had built the HOOD, had found original plans for the Hood, who were missed. They informed Trumpeter, who were still deisgning their 1:200 Hood. But Trumpeter didn´t want these "lost plans"!
So Trumpeter did know, that her upcoming 1:200 Hood would be inaccurate!
During my research on the new 1:200 Yamato I noticed that Trumpeter had used different sources, and mixed them together. It is really strange. Sometimes they followed the 1:10 Yamato, sometimes Skulski (2017), sometimes Gakken, sometimes Model Art, sometimes unknown sources......
It looks really like they had thrown all the different sources in one bucket and everybody could take something out of this bucket.......
but 99,9 percent of the people who are buying this Kit, are NOT Rivetcounter or Nerds. They give a f..k on accuracy.
And then you can say, Trumpeter did a good job.
On the other hand, they had gone for ONE soruce. And the result would be better than the actual Kit.
It isn´t a joke, but there are a few points, where the superold Nichimo Kit is more accurate! And that´s a shame for Trumpeter.
And yes, I think that their "Yamato Team" had a deadline. And at that deadline, the Kit was finished/designed by 80 percent.......
It is interesting that in our FB group no one has started the Kit (it looks like so, because no one had posted photos from currently buildings)! Main reason is, they are waiting for Pontos Upgrade Set.
And I know, that a few guys are checking the inaccuracies too!
IMHO the second "generation" of modellers will get all the important infos, to build an accurate 1:200 Yamato.
Nice detail of the Kit are, that you can build all of Yamato´s configurations. You need only a few extra parts. And it is possible, that we will get a Musashi too. Because their are markers for the linoleum stripes of Musashi too on the Aircraftdeck!
We will see......
Chris