1/350 IJN Yamato
Hello Everyone,
As soon as I heard about this forum, I immediately joined as I always wanted to share this hobby with others. I am currently on a short hiatus in plastic modeling but I wanted to share a couple models that I've made in the past years. First of the series is 1/350 scaled IJN Yamato which I made a number of years ago. Kit is detailed with Pontos detail set and is airbrushed using primarily Tamiya paints. Kit is Tamiya 1/350 Yamato New Tooling.
Thanks for watching!
Yamato rules! A very fine build John, congratulations, must be huuge in this scale...
Thanks Michel! Obviously I share the sentiment on Yamato since it was my second build once I came back into the hobby! The ship with the base comes at roughly 3 ft.
Excellent model, and a brave man who will tackle Pontos aftermarket as well as this complex kit. Well done!
Thank you! Pontos and the kit was complex but it definitely paid off!
Very very impressive. I would love to see more of your work. I am in awe of ship models but tackle very few. I admire and marvel a good builders like yourself.
Thank you Frank! I love the complexity of the ship models and I strive to come even slightly close to the great modellers out there.
Superb.
Thanks Anthony!
Welcome to iModeler...and what a great first post THIS is! I love it! 🙂
Thank you Craig! Hopefully I can keep it up with better models!
Good job! Brother!
Maybe you must be a Seo who I know.
Thank you! Maybe I am although I haven’t been to Korea in years...
wow.
Thank you David!
Wow is right! This is a modeling work of art!
Thank you Jeff!
Very well built, painted, rigged and weathered.
You got it all together.
One small point of criticism though. You've achieved a very well balanced weathering above and below the waterline, but the propellers are shining like polished brass. If you tone them down with green and brown washes, they would conform better with the overall beat up look of the ship, I think.
Thank you Ulf! You are absolutely right. I just have a hard time dirtying up the golden screws that I usually put on the very last, a little like crown jewel...
Out of this world ship build...wow! I need to go back and practice my Naval modeling skills b/c your ship, and a few others posted today are just killing me! Great job and lets see you get going on another new build. No more breaks from Modeling.
Thank you Paul! I do wish to get back but it doesn’t look like I’ll be back for sometime...
Very nice! Very realistic weathering.
Thank you Greg!
A great build!
Thank you Robert!
As everyone else has said - a superb model.
Thank you Tom!
We are being spoilt with ship models these days, a really impressive build!
Thank you Richard! The builds posted these days are truly impressive.
Indeed John, as the others have already said... What a great build. I like it all, but especially the rigging. Very subtle.
Thank you Gary. The rigging was the hardest part and I actually almost broke the entire model as I was doing it... fortunately the damage was repairable and is proudly displayed in my house.
Stunning job, really very nice work, congrats.
An impressive work, sincere congratulations. I would like to build the same model, I saw around on the web and I think that what I like best is your ship. I resume building after many years of inactivity and I would like to use new pictorial techniques. can I ask you some advice on what colors did you use for the different parts ?, how did you give that faded light effect on the sides?
Thanks so much.
Regards Luigi
Hi, thank you for your kind words. For the color, it's actually all the same, Tamiya Acrylic IJN Grey Kure Arsenal. I used pre-shading and highlighting to make certain parts of the ship stand out and that it doesn't look like just a big grey blob. As for the faded light effect on the sides - that was part of weathering that I do and I use some white pastel to represent dried salt on the hull as if it was pulled out of the ocean. It's actually not too noticeable in real life but the lighting really accentuates it in the pictures.
Thank you very much for the advice, in the color chart of my Yamato there is a spray color ts-..., which I did not want to use.
Is your deck in wood or colored? I have tried several wooden bridges, but advertising images often lie; did you do a research about it?
Hi. I didn't use the tamiya spray either, rather difficult if not impossible to preshade and detail work with just a can spray.
When you say bridge, do you mean the entire deck? I used the wooden deck that came with the Pontos photoetch set. I usually stain or weather the wooden deck seals to make it look right and not monotone.
yes sorry , deck!
Should you ever decide to sell this I'm your buyer 😀