1:350 scale Missouri

just over 30" long beam just under 4" wide made by Tamiya. I could have sworn I put this in here. I did this almost 2 years ago and she sits on my mantle. took over a month. but I was in no hurry


the hull is painted. the blue tape is to protect it from mars, finger prints and smudges










wife's lazy susan came in handy





done

 

Nice one! Had the same kit but she got "sunk" by one of our rare small earthquakes where nothing happened that my USS Missouri and my "Enola Gay" were fallen from the board and crashed.

 

oh man doesn't that just tick you off??? it did me. many years back I did one on the USS Constitution. complete with sails. took almost a year to build. a Tstorm hit here one night and a blast of thunder created a pressue wave that knocked it off the mantle and busted it to pieces. I cried for 2 days !!!!

 

Yes that was a sad day to me because the scale kit in good quality weren´t cheap. And this was my first earthquake in that night. Funny was that i didn´t woke up for it, i woke up for my mothers scary yelling.
The great sailing ships....thats what i never tried to do for the huge work with all the rigging.

 

Beautiful model namvet, well done! I always am tempted to build another warship model, but with little shelfroom and a fat cat lurking around, I worry about it getting wrecked.

 

Nice model of the MO. I'm sad to say that I actually haven't build a US battleship model. I have the KMS Bismarck, Yamato and the KG V. My birthday is coming up soon -- maybe I should buy myself a present?

And Darren - just buy some plexiglass display cases. I got a bunch of them a few years ago for some of my armor models for 20 bucks each (they were about a foot long by 4 inches wide). I recently started buying some larger glass ones at an arts and crafts store nearby. Some are big enough to fit a 1/350 warship, but are close to 100 bucks in price. Still, they are a good investment.

 

You can buy sheets of plexi glass much cheaper and anyone with the skill to build a model like that won't have any trouble making custom cases. Use a jog saw to cut it.

KTK

 

Nicely done namvet!

 

thanks guys. I had a problem with this from the get go. the main deck came in 3 pieces. and they didn't fit during the dry fit. had gaps between them. the gaps were so wide the center deck slide back and forth.
Tamiya sent replacements. same problem. then again. no good. finally to get rid of me they sent a bag full of decks. i managed to find 3 that finally fit tight. so I had almost a month delay with this one problem.
models I built in the past had 1 complete molded main deck. so i was a little ticked off here

not sure if ill buy anymore of their products.

 

I believe all of the larger 1/350th scale Tamiya models have three part decks to facilitate motorization of the model. The Yamato that I built also had a three part deck, I had motorized her, but the props were to small to generate any reasonable thrust. I had hoped to search for better props, and then add a decent remote control, except when I had the cash, I didn't have the time, then, when I had the time, I didn't have the cash. As a result, she sits idly by on top of my curio cabinet.

 

the instructions on mine showed no motorization available. so that explains the 3 decks. did you have any gap problems???

[video=youtube;--v84iUvm54]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--v84iUvm54[/video]

 

I built the Tamiya 1/350 Yamato, and mine didn't have any provisions for motorization. It had a 3 piece deck, but the fit was pretty good - the gaps are are too small to notice.

 

lucky you. mine were just to wide to let go

 

Maybe its just a manufacturing defect? I built a Tamiya 1/350 USS Enterprise (the carrier, not that star trek thing), and it had some problems with the flight deck fit. Most of the ones I built turned out OK. Tamiya seems to have better than average quality control.

 

IIRC, the motorization was included about two decades ago, I got my Yamato back around '92-'93, I believe they have long since dropped including the motorization kits, but never adjusted their molds.

The only gap problem that I had was a very small gap between the first and second deck pieces. Had I been intending to build a straight model, a little bit of putty would have easily solved the problem.

 

1:10 scale Yamato in Kure Japan. wonder who put this monster together???

 

I am considering a Carrier. but I may look else were

 

Give a look through here: M o d e l W a r s h i p s . c o m
There is lots of information to sort through, and the galleries are just WOW!

I have heard good things about Trumpeter, but have also heard some complaints too.

 

the problem today is mass production with no QC - thanks for the link

 

the lego Yamato

[video=youtube;1yRifXI7sYQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRifXI7sYQ[/video]