Oops! looks like I didn't make a post about this one. A few days ago last week or so I completed my 1/350 Yamato. The kit was very easy to put together thanks to the inginuity of Tamiya. There were minor deck to hull fit issues but we worked them out. I would say the hardest part of the entire kit would be the rudder. We had to work around a lot of stuff to get the rudder to properly function, and to a degree we got the rudder to work.
Actually, perhaps the stern was the hardest. Those airplanes were tricky and the only disappointing part of the kit was that the seaplanes did not come with propellers. I did my best anyways and I am pleased with the results. I stood back and looked at my work- wondering what it would look like with a bit of photoetch since my out of the box/non airbrush work looked spectacular.
Actually, perhaps the stern was the hardest. Those airplanes were tricky and the only disappointing part of the kit was that the seaplanes did not come with propellers. I did my best anyways and I am pleased with the results. I stood back and looked at my work- wondering what it would look like with a bit of photoetch since my out of the box/non airbrush work looked spectacular.
The ship is a lot of fun to drive around- we have one motor hooked to the circuitry and a gear box to turn four shafts. We plan on RC'ing my future Bismarck, Prince of Whales and Tirpitz kits. I tend to not bother with a duplicate ship but I may as well buy the Tirpitz if I am out of projects. For my Mini-Hobbies USS Missouri we will be hooking two motors in series that I salvaged from a battle-bot toy hooked up to a new battery compartment and circuitry board; hopefully my old RC truck can be of some use; I need to go get a few 9volt batteries so we can hook them up to the truck to test run it. It should be a lot of fun!
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