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Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:54 pm**

That rigging, esp the insulators is astonishing Joe. Yikes

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:58 pm**

Thank you Gewoon and Chuck!

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:54 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:18 pm**

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

Tease! Making us wait!!

Posted: **Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:09 pm**

Yukikaze is a box of parts.

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:41 pm**

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.

IMG_7394 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7392 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7391 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7390 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7389 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7385 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7384 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7383 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7382 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7381 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7379 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

IMG_7376 by Joseph Simon, on Flickr

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:23 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:52 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:17 am**

Nice rigging again!

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2021 6:50 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:25 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:07 am**

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

Posted: **Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:31 am**

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.