sandman-therealone wrote:
It looks to me that people still don't get it. The only reason there was a tower over the aft crane was to keep the aft rigging (mast to stern pole) clear from the crane's arm during crane operation. Once that crane tower was removed (1945) all the aft rigging went out as well.
I keep seeing beautiful and fairly accurate 1945 builds but for some unknown reasons they keep adding the aft rigging.
Use your heads guys. This is not even about basic engineering but pure common sense.
*TRUTH*
After the tower was removed (to give the #3 turret an unobstructed field of fire) the rigging ended up attached to the top of secondary battery "B" antennae, located just aft and above Main Battery #3.
As an aside - when I did my custom 1/200 Nichimo Yamato build back in 2007, I decided to keep the crane tower for purely aesthetic reasons. (Or it just may not have been clear to me yet that the tower wasn't there for Operation Ten-ichigo - I can't remember exactly).
I would probably dispense with it if I had to do it over again, but I am too afraid of screwing something up on my finished model - so its not going anywhere.
But Yamato does look more modern and sleek with the crane tower removed, I'll give you that.
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