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Hi guys,

Ever since the Kamizukuri Yamato dock came out in 1/700 i just had to have it…. finaly they were no longer a Shizouka show special, and they are available to the gerneral public.

thanks to a friend in Japan I finaly got my hands on one, and am very pleased with it….

Here a picture of the set (in progress)



Of course in researching the Yamato dock, i found this set in 1/3000 from Fujimi





Allthough i love the set from Fujimi and i am going to finnish it, I also decided to try an make this portion (and more) in 1/700 scale.

So i did some searching on the net and found the Sculpfun S9 lasercutter… an affordable one and it looked very promising. So i finaly ordered one and it arrived a week ago….. with this lasercutter i can make my own buildings wanted to incorporate the Kamizukuri Yamato dock in the bigger diorama.

However i found that the Kamizukuri dock, although a great model, is pretty inaccurate, so i started to build my own Yamato dock, based on the areal pictures that exist on the Kure Dockyard….

I know, it’s a pretty big job, but i will show my progress regularly !

So , of any of you have more info / pictures on the Kure dockyards, I would be most thankfull !!

Soon some pictures of the first test builds in cardboard

Tom

This looks like an amazing project. I will be following this. Do you know if the ever produced a 1/350 version of the dock?

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Gabriel

Just some pictures of the work i’ve been up to

All trial and error while figuring out the correct settings on the laser cutter







They didn’t make a version of this in 1/350 scale, but hey, you know, i could scale this up from 1/700 to 1/350 of course……

Tom

A very cool project. something I always contemplated.

Hey Dan

Thanks for the pictures ! Although i doubt that the color picture is indeed the Yamato drydock…….. but all pictures are most then welcome….

Here some updates….. have been test drawing and printing some stuff…… it’s going to be a long process, but hey, it is a lot of fun…….







Tom

Working on the big building of the Yamato dock…. OMG, it is sooooo fragile, i hop i can make it work!!

Looking at the pictures if have to rebuild it from scratch i suppose, but for the time being i took the Kamizukuri building and adapted it, so that it is a little smaller compared to the kamizukuri building (which is too wide….)

Hope you like it….



Tom

Looks very good. Here's another overhead, postwar.

Hello guys……


Time for an update on the Kure project…. I can tell you , it is a hell of a job , but somebody has to do it

I’ve been working on and off on the project, but it took a long time studying pictures, trying to get the proportions right, etc etc, trial and error.

Anyway, time for some pictures

I managed to finish the big yamato building, only to find out that the design was wrong….





Soooooo back to the drawing board it was……..

Thank god the building still exists, so there were plenty of pictures how it looks like today….. and i was able to create a new building….. let the pictures do the talking…..







Hope you like it….. and the following update soon … i promise

Tom

That building looks great!
And the diorama will be amazing when finished

Impressive structure. It's going to look great.

Thanks guys

In the mean time working on the big gantry, and the long building next to the gantry……