1/72 Yamato - or a steep learning curve!

[Capit�o Norbert]

Hi Herb i agree Dave Wooley. your funnel top is very well done and superb

[HMAS]

I am yet to recieve motors - what should I do?

If they were surface mail, just wait. 12wks sometimes.
Thats why I get stuff locally.

[herbieham]

Still a work in progress. I did get the air gap between the casings -and remembered to put a drain in in case water gets in there
lots of complicted curves in this!

Its almost official -Im alergic to model glue -grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
having a good time working on this indeedeee deed

[herbieham]

( I do think paint will make a better result)

[herbieham]

last one -how do you guys do such brill work -I don't think I can do much better than this -still not as good as I would like but passes the 2 foot test 9I think anyway)

[HvyCgn9]

looks fine 2 me mate!! Everyone builds differently If it only needs 2 look good from 2feet it will be fine!! I am building USS Long Beach's super structure 2 be detailed but she must also be robust e'nuff 2 be regularly taken apart for transport. No point having a big model if you must spend all your time repairing bits that fall off!!
Keep 2 it mate! She'll be finished eventually!! ( ITS what I tell myself!! over and over!! LOL)

Cheers Bruce

[GTDEATH13]

She's coming along just fine... Practice makes perfect....

[herbieham]

I was hoping to post progress this weekend -nope.
I am having extraodinary trouble with the platforms ect around the funnel -as it says -a steep learning curve indeed!
maybe next week end...................grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[herbieham]

a little progress

[herbieham]

[herbieham]

Its getting there far too slowly for my liking

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Herb This is an amazing build , don't be to fussed over taking to long .
Dave Wooley

[GTDEATH13]

Dear Herb... You are building a 1/72 scale Yamato... This does not mean that the time to build it is 72 times shorter the time it took the Japanese to build it...

Keep up the good work... You are getting there...

But perhaps it is the trip and not the destination that matters...

[herbieham]

HAY!

Motors are in the mail at last!

I am now debating what to tackle next on the plastic front once funnel finished -I think I have just a few (cough, cough) 25mm guns to build -might knock them over in a arvo LOL

[ccain]

All I can say is... WOW!

Beautiful.

[USS Michigan BB27]

looks like you been waiting on them motors for a while. glade they came for ya! well looking forward to pics of them installed sometime. take care.

[herbieham]

THE Motors have arrived!

OK -steep learning curve and all that -time to trawl these forums -how to fit them and the shafts.
First -think I will need a soldering iron right?
Goody, more toys justified

[HvyCgn9]

Any pic's of motor's Herb??

[herbieham]

Hi -here you go

[herbieham]

Funnel almost there -a few bits to finish yet