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
! 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.