discussion Tamiya 1/350 premium yamato

[boatman]

NOW that's more like it Raymond now I can see what you are up to on this build an from what I see you are doin the full hull then ? great stuff good to have another floaty guy on the forum :thumb2:
chris

 

[shovelhead 1977]

hi , was going to do waterline diorama, but never ever done water so I thought this was best as I didn't want to ruin the model !

 

[shovelhead 1977]

 

[shovelhead 1977]

well , I have never done a model with such good fitting parts, only cleaning up to do was where they attach to the sprues, parts just seem to fall into place. !

 

[Wouter]

What do you think of the Tamiya etch? I thought it's dreadful.

Tamiya stuff often is good engineered, and this kit in general too. Parts fit well as you say. With just one large error. I found the hull parts not fitting well at all, giant gaps here and there. Very strange that this happened to the Tammi boys.

Nice coloring of the hull.

Cheers

 

[shovelhead 1977]

the etch in my kit seems quite good, I dry fitted the hull, bow and various bits first, to be honest I could have left them loose as they were that good a fit, only a very slight gap where the bow top joined the hull but nothing to worry about, no problem with the etch parts the pieces that I put on seemed to be ok. going back to the hull, ifyou look at the bow picture its not glued or screwed on yet just placed on you can see what a good fit it is , no gaps or anything ! rest of the ship was like this as well

 

[shovelhead 1977]

funnel nearly complete, very fiddly

 

[boatman]

Nice bit of building work there on the funnel Raymond :thumb2:
chris

 

[shovelhead 1977]

Nice bit of building work there on the funnel Raymond :thumb2:
chris
thanks, just building sub assemblies now while waiting for wooden deck to arrive getting to the real fiddly bits

 

[boatman]

IT'L come you just keep on enjoyin the build Raymond like I do on my tiger
chris

 

[shovelhead 1977]

some photo etched parts fitted, building sub assemblies while waiting for wood deck to arrive, getting into some really fiddly pieces now !

 

[shovelhead 1977]

some searchlights painted, parts for the second bridge, second bridge main bridge and funnel dry fitted still lots of parts to be fitted to this part

 

[boatman]

Some very nice work on that funnel an bridge area it all looks very complex just as well Raymond you got the instructions but that's what I like about the big Y all those guns an plenty of detail to keep you busy as that's what modelin all about an enjoyin doin it lookin forward to more an it would be nice to see you fit on 1/350 figures of the crew walkin round her really set the model off that would
chris

 

[shovelhead 1977]

hi chris, yes seen some figures for this, theres no detail on them they are just flat, don't know if to get them or not, bought some railings for it really looking forward to putting them on , not !!!! still loads to put on yet, still waiting for wood deck to come

 

[shovelhead 1977]

some main mast parts, and nearly completed