Final assembly included about 20 very tiny 20mm guns placed around the deck of the ship. I also added two out of the four floatplanes. I decided not to weather it to keep a fresh look in keeping with the spirit of the build. In the end, I did enjoy the build. If you have room for the final result, You can add an almost endless amount of aftermarket, both photoetch and more and more 3d printed items. Part 5 Entire gallery.
It all starts with this. Tamiya classic (early 70’s) kit of the IJN Battleship Yamato in 1/350 scale. The members of IPMS London gifted this to me as a challenge build as I am always screwing up the name of the battleship with Admiral Yamamoto. This one was partially started with the hull being painted and the sprues sorted The instructions also had colour call outs written on them. Big ship kits like this particuarly older ones will often prompt the builder to add all sorts of phone etch after market and other accesscories. In this case given my love of photo etch and the nature of the build I am only going to get a wood deck which was purchased from Ali-express. The detail is quite amazing. Next time – we start assembly.
Between shows and life, I have not had a ton of bench time until recently. Almost done the Hayabusa probe and then will continue work on the Moosaroo cup.