New MSW crew-mate Anthony Kochevar (ajkochev) shares a fantastic build story of his IJN Yamato, in his first MSW submission!

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~Gunny

Thank you Anthony for sharing this incredible build with us. This is one of the finest ship models I've ever seen and in 700th scale no less! Your step by step instructions are much appreciated. There are enough construction tips there to keep me coming back over and over.

Thanks again Anthony for a majestic build and thanks Mark for posting.

Frank

Hi Anthony

Thanks for writing this future reference great article!
I know that it is supposed to be used with the AOTS book (just "sitting" there looking at me), but I must say that you already have cut the path through the jungle - if I might use this way of expression!

Also I would like to make a small correction on a little thing and a challenge...
correction: you called the wooden thing on the stern a raft. It isn't, it is a emergency rudder;
challenge: you have gone the extra mile on this beauty, and although I could accept the water base for other model, in this particular case, I would say that it deserves a better one

Congratulations Anthony!!!


Rui

Beautiful work Anthony. Very stunning.

Kenny

Simply one of the best I've seen in a long time.

Thank you for sharing!

Amazing workmanship there Anthony. Thanks for sharing and giving up all those tips and tricks. I know where I am going to be looking when I start working on my Musashi and Yamato models. One heck of a build and shows just what can be accomplished with the divine scale and some careful work.

instant bookmark... just gorgeous,, hope my 350 nagato comes out 1/10th a s good as this one... will be watching and going over this one a long time, thanks for sharing!

Thank you all for your replies. I really enjoy reading full buildup articles and thought I'd write one of a model I had a reference book and several sets of photoetch for. To spite several revisions I still can see alot of spelling/grammer errors I made in the document.

This model also recently won First place, Judges grand and several other awards in a local IPMS show, I was very pleased. Your right that I took the easy way out on the water and perhappes I'll practice and try one day on giving it a better base.

A reason this looked so good is that the kit itself is awesome. It comes with peices to build all versions of the Yamato. I'm going to be using it to build a 1944 Musashi in the future. If you want a good looking kit out of the box this is it. I highly recommend it.

Indeed Anthony (I have both the Yamato and Musashi in the stash, waiting for better skills)
Thanks again

Rui