This is the first time I’ve used the Tamiya Dull Red, @pb_legend, it really looks nice I think.
Your Yamato is 1/700? I have a 1/200 Nichimo I-19 submarine I built in the 70s, it’s a wreck... I’m thinking of trying to make it more presentable ( repair and then repaint with these Tamiya IJN colors.)

This Tamiya red does indeed look right, Jay @ssgt

The main deck is attached now to the hull of the ship. I’ve started trying to get all the teeny detail pieces placed on the deck and after those are done , I’ll go back and try to touch up the paint and fill the seams as needed. Those little parts are difficult to trim off the sprue and get glued in place. Two have vanished , hopefully there will be similar left over parts that were for the 1944 version of the ship I can use in place of the missing parts. I wish those details had been moulded integral with the deck rather then separate little parts.

3 attached images. Click to enlarge.

Nice step, Jay @ssgt
With the newer molding techniques, parts seem to become smaller (and more detailed) as well, unfortunately it makes it more difficult for us modellers to handle those.

Yes, @johnb, you are right ! That’s one of the reasons I generally prefer older kits.

Looks great, Jay (@ssgt). I'm just getting up to speed on your build. I have never heard of Wave kits before, but Hasegawa is a no-brainer. Looking forward to the rest of the build.

Very nice, Jay @ssgt
Very nice picture indeed. Also how they built the scaffolding around the smoke stack is impressive.

I hope I can find other similar photos that show such details of other parts as this smoke stack photo, @fiveten & @johnb. It looks like that was just sheets of steel riveted together, sort of crude looking up close. The model kit makes it look nicer then it was in real life, or so it seems.