Great to see you back into the Build again Doug.....Cheers mark

Added the windows/fans to the hull. These appear in the original Tamiya mold as large, round holes but actually have a square frame with a the rotating fan within them. I originally tried gluing the fans directly on top of the holes, but placement was uneven, so I took them all off, filled in the holes with white putty, and glued on again.

This is the rear barbette for the 460 cm gun turret. My new "wood" deck was not quite flush with the metal deck piece which adjoins it, so I had to build up one side of the barbette with a thin piece of scrap plastic, sanded into shape.



The barbette in place (but not glued yet), with bracing added. There were 14 braces included in the set, but I only used 12, in part to allow for easier division along the circumference of the piece, using a compas.

When a build carrries on for 10 pages without being finished it is impressive.

Reading this thread and looking at your workmanship on the other hand is just mind boggling (in a good way)!;)

Just wondering how many frets of PE are you using altogether now? It looks like a crazy number!

Keep up the good work!

Dan

Hi Daniel,
Four full sets of PE, two of which were gifts, in addition to the Ishida pieces, which are a combination of PE and resin replacement parts and some other add-ons.

Beautiful work Doug.

Nice to see you back at the workbench!
I give it to you that the musical output was quite remarkable, but it's even better to see you back on this project.
Guido

hey Guido, the music still has priority, but I'll be fitting more modeling sessions in now that I have a process set up. Definitely need more time in my life, however...

Cheers Doug it just looked like almost every post there was a new fret of tiny PE waiting to be started!

Cant wait to see more of this!

Dan

Hello people, its been a very long time (almost three years) since I posted to this blog, but I am now back and will be continuing with it on a regular basis. The reason for the long break was not due to any disillusionment with the kit, but due to being side tracked into a very intensive musical project which sucked up all of my time and creative energy. That said, one of the problems I had at the time I put the kit aside was a very bad series of ridges formed on the new deck I fashioned for Yamato. These were the result of super glue melting the plastic of the new deck along the lines of the bracing I put in place under neath it. After spending a lot of time figuring out how to address the problem, I ended up tearing out the entire front portion of the deck and redoing it from scratch. This included scraping and Dremeling off both old plastic and glue. Here's a pick of the deck after all of the old work was removed:

Here's the replacement deck being refitted and glued into place. I used a heavier thickness of backing underneath the deck piece and am forgoing any bracing with it.

Success - new deck flows along the curvature.

There was some slight damage to the weld marks on the bowwhile pulling up the old deck, but there should be easy to repair. Still need some filling along the deck edges.

Some dry fitting of the superstructure parts. As mentioned three long years ago, with the purchase of the new tooling, my intent with this kit is to convert it into the October 1944 ("Leyte Gulf") version of the ship, with less AA placement but still with the wing structures added in April 44. This kit will portray Yamato at anchor in Singapore just prior to the sortie. I plan to portray the new tooling under way and in combat at Okinawa. This will allow the use of some of the new tooling parts, such as the boats and floatplanes on this kit, since they would be absent later. I will be working on the replacement breakwater next, and hopefully you'll see progress on that in much less than three years. Cheers, Doug.

Well....Welcome back then Doug! Great to see you are mustering on with this one! Nice work on the bow! Looks like you have a handle on the main deck as well!! Looking forward to seeing you progress along!

Hey Doug

could you ask admin to remove the apostrophe from your blog title please?

Apostrophe's stop the email notifications going out to subscribers, so we miss out on your posts

Thanks.

Should be all set Russell!

Not a ship builder by any means, but this is one build I followed from page one.... am glad to see it back and rolling again.

BobW

Perfect! Thanks Todd

OK, some new progress...this is the replacement breakwater using the Ishida ventilator parts. Unlike the original kit, the two round cap ventilators bisect the break water. Notice that they are all much smaller than the parts made for the original kit. For that matter, the break water itself scales on lower that the original version. I used the piece from the retool to get the spacing right.
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