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

[Ed Roth]

Might check this site out for plans:


http://www2.odn.ne.jp/miyukikai/

Ed

[MrMidnight78]

Hi Ed, Thanks for the link much better price at �14 but only in 1/200, I could really do with 1/100 or larger. Found the plans tab for loyalhanna guess I shouldn't have used their search engine, �75 a better price but I did find them once for about �50 before somewhere just wish I knew where?
Well a bit of searching and I found Fleetscale 1/96 for �45 haven't added shipping but should be under �50. Are these good plans?

[Atma]

Fujimi will release a IJN Musashi in 1/700 with a "water base"(like the IJN Yamato), the model is the old mold.
http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ42156
The release is for December.

[Senkan]

1/200 Yamato coming along.

[Guest]

I made my yamato in 120h/ with PE eduard and Wooden deck... tell me how- ill post some pic. Model is Awesome :)

[Bill Clarke]

Guys,

Are there replacements for the 6in gun turrets? Or are they reasonably accurate?

[Felix C]

Is there any online source to see drawings of how the Yamato appeared in 1942?

[Atma]

Online ? No, but the Anatomy of Ship:IJN Yamato has an accurate drawing of early war IJN Yamato.

[Timmy C]

Hiro's $530 Yamato has been released: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10203313

[Atma]

This have to be the most difficult 1/700 model ever...

[Rob Wood]

Rob Wood, I was wondering if you had two pictures of each side of the funnel of the yamato, im building a 1:1 scale model on minecraft and i wanted to know where the small tubes are positioned.

Better late than never. Sorry for the delay in responding, but life tends to interfere sometimes.

Rob

[baseballbrat]

Gentlemen, I am new here and would appreciate any advise about IJN Yamato. I am working on a future project of building the 1:350 Tamiya New Tool IJN Yamato with all the extras. I have 18 reference books on the Yamato (most in Japanese), but I can't seem to get any highly detailed information and drawings on how this boat is rigged. I would say the hardest part is how the rigging is attached and with what devices. I noticed through the material I have the drawings show the rigging but don't exactly show where on the ship it's attached. Looking at everyones builds I noticed small round attach points on the upper lines. Looking at the information I have, I found a drawing on some kind of insulator, round in shape that interlocks the rigging to each other. I am just guessing about this. If anyone has a clue where I can get a rigging document, please post this here. I would like to know what all the other modelers are using to replicate this connector on their builds and where to put them. PS. I had contacted Tamiya but I am not important enough for a response.

Thank you for your advise.

Jim

[EJFoeth]

It is not a boat; it is a ship. Anyway, Anatomy of the ship Yamato, or Super Illustration Battlesip Yamato should contain most of the info/

[Senkan]

A damn big ship. I went to see the USS North Carolina and was amazed at the size. And to think Yamato was 150 feet longer and 20 feet wider. And 30,000 more tons.

Regarding Yamato rigging...best think I can tell you to do is look at the 1/10 Yamato model at the Yamato museum in Kure. Might want to use putty/clay for the connectors or maybe white glue.

[modelmanuk]

I bought the 1/200 yamato and it came with main 1/200 GMM photo etch but the instructions were missing can anyone
scan of the instructions of the main photo etch for me please

thanks

[Senkan]

I'll see what I can do regarding the instructions. MIght be able to scan them Monday.

[modelmanuk]

that would be great thanks

[Senkan]

Here are the GMM photo etch instructions for both the first set and the plus set.

[Yamato2020]

I have 2 tamiya Yamato kits and I am considering making one into a "what-if" kit, making Yamato a present day warship, modernised and armed with launchers and the flight deck for choppers and even F-35. Is it possible for F-35 to operate with such a small deck? Also are there any references and parts that I can get? Thanks.

[Timmy C]

Is it possible for F-35 to operate with such a small deck?

Not as they are - while originally advertised as capable of vertical take-off, it has turned out to not actually be the case in any realistic situation. You'll need a runway to assist with Short Take Off (for rough idea of length needed, see Youtube videos of F-35B trials on USS Wasp), or a catapult.