IJN Yamato, 1/350, 1945 - COMPLETED

[Chuck Bauer]

That rigging, esp the insulators is astonishing Joe. Yikes

[Joe Simon]

Thank you Gewoon and Chuck!

[MartinJQuinn]

Superb work, Joe. That rigging is phenomenal. Those insulators are amazing. Hope to see her in Vegas next month.

[Joe Simon]

Thank you Martin! All 5 will be in Omaha next year in the collection (Yamato, Kongo, Myoko, Yahagi and Yukikaze).

[MartinJQuinn]

Thank you Martin! All 5 will be in Omaha next year in the collection (Yamato, Kongo, Myoko, Yahagi and Yukikaze).

Tease! Making us wait!!

[Joe Simon]

Yukikaze is a box of parts.

[Joe Simon]

I have installed both secondary turrets for the purpose of finishing the rigging, which I have. I also installed the main gun director. There is also additional rigging around the aft mast.

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[Chuck Bauer]

Amazing how you can get something so complex to have perfect tension and alignments.
Neat and tidy, too.

[Joe Simon]

Thank you Chuck! I have a small iron that I use to tighten the rigging up.

[GewoonWouter]

Nice rigging again!

[Dan K]

Beautiful, Joe. Did you handpaint the white on the insulators?

[Joe Simon]

Thank you Gewoon and Dan. Yes Dan I painted them with flat white valejo.

[Madhatter]

Hi there
So, I started at the beginning of this thread by breaking out in a small sweat at the sight of all that PE laid out on the table. Then I swiftly went on to being amazed at the attention to the smallest of details that even someone as OCD as myself would probably over look.
It was then followed closely by a bout of jealousy at the fact you can glue all that PE on without leaving a fingerprint embedded superglue mark on the surface
I'm now seriously inspired to want to go buy and make a Yamato and pretend that I too could achieve the same awesome results as what you've been posting. However, reality has sort of snuck in and I kind of realise that spending such large amounts of money on items like the Pontos set would just be wasted with my current ship building skill set and that same money would better spent on a smaller set - like Eduard....

Mate, you've been making a museum piece here for sure. I have one question though - I have obviously missed it but how come you didn't use the stick on wooden deck? Is it too thick? Not the right colour? They look wrong or you just don't like them in general? I'm not to proud to admit I am one of those people who actually prefer the stick on deck . Mostly as I feel my painting skills lack somewhat and cannot replicate wood well enough to look real.

Anyway Joe, thanks heaps for posting you progress. As i sad before, it 's very inspirational and although my wallet hates you with a passion right now, my enthusiasm for ship kits can't thank you enough
cheers
Si

[Joe Simon]

Thank you Madhatter! Very kind of you. The wooden decks are nice, but the never looked quite right to me. The raised areas are part of the issue. I also enjoy the artistic part of try to make the deck look wooden. By the way perhaps you cold start with the Tamiya Yukikaze and excellent Pontos set for that model.

[Joe Simon]

I have installed all open and enclosed 12.7 cm mounts and all 25mm triples (open and enclosed) mounts around the super structure.

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[Iceman 29]

Nice job to follow!

[Dan K]

Wonderful looking work, Joe.

[Joe Simon]

Thanks Dan and Iceman!

[GewoonWouter]

Good one, the end is near I reckon ^^

[Joe Simon]

Thank you Gewoon! Yes the end is near. I'm working on Yukikaze along with this so they should both get done roughly together.