The main battleship Yamato 1/72 from italy

[Yamato72]

Hello everyone ..

I must apologize for my English ..

My name is Rolf and I live in Italy, as you have a great passion for model ships, for years I trial in the construction of my huge model is enormous, far away from 2006 I am building all of the Yamato and I know trying to be as faithful as possible.

public everything I've done so far.
Our friend, herbieham which is building the Yamato in 1 / 72 from 2008 and very recently ppiu ahead of me with the building ... but I'm done for more details hidden and not visible, then you'll see what I say now begin to see some photos ...

good job everyone

guns principal turret 460mm

set complet guns AA25mm - 12.7mm - 155mm

second tower guns da 155mm

second base tower da 155mm

funnel completed

funnel under construction

first tower guns da 155mm

principal turret 460mm under construction

principal turret 460mm under construction

principal turret 460mm under construction

[Yamato72]

more photos

sovrastruttura in costruzione

sovrastruttura in costruzione

ventilators materialized, in the prototyping

ventilators materialized, in the prototyping

Gun Turret Type 89 12.7, materialized, in the prototyping

Hull construction material used, polycarbonate and balsa will then coated with fiberglass inside and out

[Dave Wooley]

Hello Rolf Welcome to scratchbuild . Like the Bismarck the Yamato is one of those iconic warships which is popular on this site at differing scales . Your work is superb. I noted that the barrels in the turret are at different angles . Question do you intend to have independently moving barrels within the same turret?
Dave Wooley

[Yamato72]

Hello Rolf Welcome to scratchbuild . Like the Bismarck the Yamato is one of those iconic warships which is popular on this site at differing scales . Your work is superb. I noted that the barrels in the turret are at different angles . Question do you intend to have independently moving barrels within the same turret?
Dave Wooley

Hello, Dave Wooley.
Thank you for your compliments, the guns will move independently for all three towers on handling guns use the pneumatic system.
For photo-etched, the design with AutoCAD, the reason that here in Italy is not much used the scale 1 / 72 and nothing, model ships of WW2 and especially the Japanese.

[109]

That looks very nice! Please keep us updated! By the way - didn�t the japs use a dark grey for their ships?

Your hull construktion seem to be unconventional - can you post more details, please?

I admire the work of Giancarlo Barbieri - do you know this modeler? Are there any books or publications with his ship models, please?

Ciao,

Bernd.

[Yamato72]

fire center 15meter

fire center 15meter

view other superstructure

view other superstructure

hull end superstructure

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Rolf Your 15m range centre is impressive . How was this constructed . Is the radar matress made up from PE ?
Dave Wooley

[Yamato72]

Hi Rolf Your 15m range centre is impressive . How was this constructed . Is the radar matress made up from PE ?
Dave Wooley

Hello Dave, material and plexyglas and plastic and metal wire mesh I made a photo-etched, brass and many, many, patient

thank you very much

[herbieham]

I am not worthy.......................... i don't think Ill look here anymore because I'll get depressed at how good this is LOL!

amazing work -and the stark differences we are tackling this mighty work!

[Ticonderoga]

Hello Rolf,

Your work is amazing Well done. (life in the 1/72 world gets more challenging every day )

I am intigued by your use of plexi glass, it looks facinating. I for one would enjoy reading about some of the details regarding working with the plexiglass and its use in the build.

Thank you for sharing your work

[Capit�o Norbert]

Hi Yamato72
fantastic work showed.
great details work and a lot of work to do
Bella nave acorazatta
Norb

[Yamato72]

here's finally assembled the hull are still missing pieces then move to fiberglass

[Dave Wooley]

Rolf what an amazing build .
Dave Wooley

[Richard J OMalley]

Great work ,thanks for shairing it with us .

[NorthSea]

That's very impressive

Can you show us how you plan to mechanise the gun turrets?

[AlainFR]

Hello Rolf,
Superb work !!!
The quality of your building is impressive!!!

Perhaps we will see a day your Ymato and my Missouri in the same watter?!

But, just a question, have you a big elevator in your top floor???

Alain

[Richard J OMalley]

That almost sounds like a challenge. :heh:Missouri VS Yamato were have I heared that before ?

[NorthSea]

Rolf, I seem to have spotted 2 computer hard drives in your build.

Do these have any function?

[DrPR]

Nice work!

Funny, before I started visiting this forum I thought everyone made scratchbuild large scale models out of Plexiglass! I saw some photos of models from Scale Shipyards and just thought this was how it was done.

[bada.s]

Superb work !!!Fantastic scratchbuilding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Impressionante un lavoro stupendo!!!!!!!!!!!