Calling all Yamato (大和) and Musashi (武蔵) fans

[Atma]

Porthole covers and rivets in 1/700 scale can drive a man mad. but I guess in 1/200 is a bit more easy ?

[Senkan]

I can see putting porthole covers on a 1/700...but rivets...yikes. I might add rivets to my 1/350 Yamato but I cant see doing it to my 1/700. What would you use? A grain of sand?

[Senkan]

Well I put rivets on half the ship. Then sprayed the hull with Tamiya Super Fine primer. I got the look I was looking for. Im still thinking on if I should rivet the bottom or not....

The problem Im seeing now is painting the waterline and how do I do that with all that detail on the hull...any ideas?

[bucketfoot-al]

Wow, lots of work, but the final result seems well worth the effort! Outstanding!

As far as the waterline goes ... well, you've got to use some kind of masking tape before you spray, no? If I understood your question correctly. Don't have that much experience with different types of tape, but someone around here should be able to help you ...

[sgtryan13]

Nice work Senkan! I like the beefy look you achieved a lot!

For masking, I would think if you spray the upper hull with your grey forst and give it a few coats of clear sealer you will be ok masking the lower hull to spray the red. My suggestions would be for the straight runs, use 3M low tack artist's tape, this worked wonders on my Truman build, and does not have enough grip to pull off any paint or any of your rivets or porthole covers. on the curved areas you will need a stickier tape, but you don't have many rivets on the curved tricky areas, so you should be ok there.

Ryan

[Senkan]

Thanks Ryan. Im gonna give that tape a try.

I remember you had an issue with Tom's portholes being too thin on your Yamato. I saw a guy who used stretched sprew and twisted it around a small dowel or the like to make the eyebrows. It looked pretty good. Ive got the Toms portholes and Im going to add them w/o any primer and hope they show up. If not I might have to try this method.

[Ben Hartley]

Well I put rivets on half the ship. Then sprayed the hull with Tamiya Super Fine primer. I got the look I was looking for. Im still thinking on if I should rivet the bottom or not....

The problem Im seeing now is painting the waterline and how do I do that with all that detail on the hull...any ideas?

Um... I've been a-lurkin'... and like your Yamato very much.

Have you ever tried "liquid mask?" It's available here:

http://www.micromark.com/SearchResult.a ... on+masking

[Atma]

I can see putting porthole covers on a 1/700...but rivets...yikes. I might add rivets to my 1/350 Yamato but I cant see doing it to my 1/700. What would you use? A grain of sand?

Actually I never tried to add rivets in 1/700, and to be honest not even in 1/500 scale !

[navydavesof]

Well I put rivets on half the ship. Then sprayed the hull with Tamiya Super Fine primer. I got the look I was looking for. Im still thinking on if I should rivet the bottom or not....

The problem Im seeing now is painting the waterline and how do I do that with all that detail on the hull...any ideas?

WOW! Absolutely awesome! Great job! Keep up this fantastic work. I really look forward to future posts.

[Atma]

Senkan any progress on your build ?

[Senkan]

Sorry Atma. Taking a break from the monster. I still need to do the other half of the hull. Next will be finishing up the other hull details and painting it. I expect the hull to be finished by the end of the month.

[JBA]

Dear all,
I have been searching the 54 pages of the thread but I can't seem to find exactly what i am after.

Yamato's bow crest and immediate surroundings as shown here :


I need to know quite a few things about it

1/ I read somewhere that the crest was 2 meters wide, but on the Anatomy of the Ship book it shows 1.20 m, can anyone confirm this?

2/ in what material was the crest actually done? brass? steel with golden plating?

3/ the steel (?) support was straight or slightly curved like i show in my drawing?



4/ How was done the steel plate upper border, here are 3 likely propositions..



5/ How was that crest fixed on the steel plate / Would there be any rivets (or fixation system) visible on the other side?

6/ The "Towing Fairlead" would have been of a different kind of steel I suppose? looks quite thick.. Would it have been heavily weathered by ropes (?) traces by the time of the sinking?

7/ I don't understand much the plans (and the few model pictures I have seen) about this "Towing Fairlead", would the 2 big metal chunks be overlapping? would there be any space between them?



Lots of questions on a really small place of the Battleship but thanks for viewing!
JB

[bucketfoot-al]

Well I can answer one question definitively; the crest was exactly 2 meters wide. The sub that examined the wreck held out a 2 meter ruler across the crest with its mechanical arm and sure enough, it was exactly 2 meters wide. You can see the video as part of the NOVA documentary "Sinking the Supership" ...

[JBA]

Thanks for this Bucketfoot-al, I think I can start by this already

[J. Soca]

Would you consider using the 1/1 scale mockup of the battleship from the 2005 film Otokotachi No Yamato as reference too? scroll down a little down and you'll find great shots of the bow's chrysanthemum and fairlead. i cant remember well if what i read about the crest was accurate or not and it wasnt Yamato's it was another vessel i think i read these were made out of some kind of wood ?? ofcourse there was a process in how to get it to its final look i just don't remember at all.

http://mokehana.web.fc2.com/e-photo-yamatomovie-set.htm


Jose

[Atma]

Nice link.
I think for Otokotachi No Yamato the Japanese producers got help from people that "know" about IJN Yamato class in depth, they are experts.

[EJFoeth]

There are some errors in the 1:1 mock-up though, so it's not quite reference material.

[JBA]

Thanks for the link Jose, that's one I didn't have

Thanks Atma and EJ. Yesthose pictures will be very useful to get the right "look and feel" of the whole thing. Now if it's totally accurate or not.. The most important part is shown on the underwater pictures anyway.

[Atma]

The best IJN Yamato on market, the 1/500 Fujimi kit, now on 1941 mode(as build):
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10155426
Out late August, hurry up !
Enjoy.

[Atma]

Something that I notice on my 1/500 Fujimi's IJN Yamato:

That IJN Yamato had recieved an extra pair of machine gun directors in 1945, every build I see of IJN Yamato 1945 era dosent not have this feature.
Fujimi maybe came with new details about the 1945 version of IJN Yamato cause the 1944 version of IJN Yamato dosent have the extra machine gun directors.
Anyone can confirm that ?