Post by popeye on Sept 11, 2011 5:05:56 GMT -6
Right! just trying out a new photohosting site as i must be nearing my "free" limit on photobucket, hopefully you can see the pics, may need to click on em to get the full size, anyway this is the Nichimo 1/200th scale kit of Yamato, i converted the other kit to the carrier Shinano, i used some triple "A" turrets from the other kit to show Yamato in her final "re-fit" look, just prior to here destruction by US carrier borne aircraft both from low level torpedo and high level bombs, there is a 1/10th scale model in the Kure Yamato meusem, (this model looks bigger than some of the real ships the british navy has left) 
and was used i think in the makeing of the film "Pacific Battleship Yamato", a terriffic film (i reccoment the later edition with better subtitals) really brings home the carnage of her last hours) also a good read is "requim for Battleship Yamato" written by a surviveing junior officer
the destroyer along side it the Nichimo kit of the anti aircraft destroyer Hatsuzuki, one of the larger Japanese destroyers, this ship never actually sailed with the Yamato but i put it in the dio as there are no kits of the old worn out destroyers and criuser that did accompany her on her last "suicide" run,
a few facts i remember from the book anatomy of a ship series on Yamato,
build in secrecy due to the washington treaty, she was build behind giant "sizal" curtains" to obscure the build from view (as were here sister ships)
a special overhead crane had to be build to lift and move her giant barbetts and 18in main guns into place,
a ship had to be practilly rebuild and adapted just to transport her main guns from the makers to the dock holding the Yamato,
each "total moveing " part of the barbett inc 18" barrels weighed about the same as a smallish destroyer (arount 2.500 tons)
at the time of her launch she was the largest most heavily armoured and largest gunned battleship in the world, i recall the "Iowa" class were silightly longer but narrower in beam so they could pass through the panama canal, she was also obsolete with the carrier fast becomeing the front line fighting ship, the japanese had plans for even bigger gunned ships at 20" but they never got build, at the time of her "last" mission the war was just about over for the japanese,
and was used i think in the makeing of the film "Pacific Battleship Yamato", a terriffic film (i reccoment the later edition with better subtitals) really brings home the carnage of her last hours) also a good read is "requim for Battleship Yamato" written by a surviveing junior officerthe destroyer along side it the Nichimo kit of the anti aircraft destroyer Hatsuzuki, one of the larger Japanese destroyers, this ship never actually sailed with the Yamato but i put it in the dio as there are no kits of the old worn out destroyers and criuser that did accompany her on her last "suicide" run,
a few facts i remember from the book anatomy of a ship series on Yamato,
build in secrecy due to the washington treaty, she was build behind giant "sizal" curtains" to obscure the build from view (as were here sister ships)
a special overhead crane had to be build to lift and move her giant barbetts and 18in main guns into place,
a ship had to be practilly rebuild and adapted just to transport her main guns from the makers to the dock holding the Yamato,
each "total moveing " part of the barbett inc 18" barrels weighed about the same as a smallish destroyer (arount 2.500 tons)
at the time of her launch she was the largest most heavily armoured and largest gunned battleship in the world, i recall the "Iowa" class were silightly longer but narrower in beam so they could pass through the panama canal, she was also obsolete with the carrier fast becomeing the front line fighting ship, the japanese had plans for even bigger gunned ships at 20" but they never got build, at the time of her "last" mission the war was just about over for the japanese,
