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[DavieTait]

http://www.oshipee.com/omami/e-photo-yamatomuseum.htm
The link above takes you to the Kure maritime museum where they've built a 1/10th scale "model" of the WW2 Battleship Yamato. This must have been like building the real thing since it is 85ft long and I don't think plank on frame or bread and butter construction would have been a good way to build it !!!

Davie

[ron h]

We have had a link to this site on MODELWARSHIPS for about 6 months, there looks like a few more good photo,s of the model, ron h

[colin-stevens]

what motors power this thing then. that would be worth seeing.

[DavieTait]

I think its just a static model Colin mores the pity. If they ever do a proper film about her they should use her for the action shots, I mean she'll be far more realistic than computer generated pics you'd never know she wasn't the real thing at that scale.

Davie

[colin-stevens]

i would love to see shots of the manufacture.bet it went built on kitchen table. lol.

[Daryl]

Hi folks,
If you look on the IJN forum on the combinedfleets.com web site there's talk of a film realeased called Men OF Yamato or something like that. The model was made for the film at a rumoured cost of ?50k, so far much to the dismay of the US members of that forum the film is for Japan domestic release only. Just before Christmas they published a link to a Japanese gentleman who had a web site with 300 pictures of her. That took some downloading and filled up a cd as I am building a 1/350 r/c version and any information is useful.

Apparently as you all may know the origional plans was destroyed before the Jappanese surrender and the wreck is a war grave so the Japanese government will not allow any diving on the site. The film's producers went to great lenthgs to make sure it was accurate for her last youage. They even included crew figures and sandbags around the 20mm AA guns that were bolted on the deck. These can be just made out onone of the overhead shots taken by a US plane before she sank.

[ron h]

I have seen pictures of this vessel, its not all the ship , its waterline, but massive, I will try to find a link on the other site. ron h

[ron h]

TRY THIS.


http://www.yamato-movie.jp/

[garston1]

Have a look at this!

http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NK_ImageView.asp?key=555537&un=97313&pos=1

[nhp651]

think of the ballast that'd need on your local lake

[garston1]

Imagine the size of the lake!

[amdaylight]

Heck at 1/10th scale you would need a full crew just to get it away from the dock, she would some 95' long. Your main guns would be 1.8" in diameter . Heck this thing would be larger than some patrol craft.

Andre
over yonder in Portland Oregon

[Garabaldy]

bet it would look good on the water though......

[TCC]

The question is who made the mould and then cast it?

[steve pickstock]

That is something else altogether.

The model itself is awe inspiring but the setting is thoughtful, tasteful and compliments the workmanship completely.

The only question I have is where is the launching tube for the fighters, I thought it went in the bulb under the bow?

[Martin (Admin)]

http://youtu.be/1yRifXI7sYQ

Scale: 1/40 (1/1 for minifig)

Length: 6.6 meters (22 feet)
Width: 1.0 meter (3 feet)
Time to complete: 6 years and 4 months
Parts: 200,000 LEGO elements
Weight: 150 kilograms (330 pounds)

You can see more photos there.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=114076
http://www.geocities.jp/jun_brick/yamato_m.html

[Rottweiler]

The Lego model of Yamato is superb. Certainly shows what can be done with a lot of imagination and time.
Mick F