Announced at papermodel.jp: IJN Yamato (sort of)

[cfuruti]

After the recent IJN submarine, seaplane tender and assault carrier models, our friends at papermodel.jp have just announced a 1/350 IJN Yamato, but not the whole ship. It's hard to characterize, but it resembles the Space Battleship Yamato anime's scenario: a rusting bridge and forecastle buried in a dry seabed. Interesting and rather depressing IMHO.

[JohnGay]

Very interesting!
I've been interested in building the Space Battleship Yamato for years!
And UHU02 is currently designing the Original Battleship Yamato now!

[rickstef]

it is a very unique interpretation of the Yamato to be sure.

I am really enjoying the different subjects Heppoko is releasing

[JohnGay]

Speaking of Space Battleship Yamato:
Has anyone watched the movie from 2010?
I watched it a few years ago and thought it wasn't half bad, considering it's been decades since I watched Star Blazers as a young teen.

[herky]

they have agreat yamato but its impossible to buy outside japan

[SCEtoAUX]

Atom, who runs Glue² Chronicle and is in Japan will purchase items available only in Japan and send them to you for a fee.
This is a note on the website:

I can support your shopping in Japan.
Mail me, if you are interested.

I believe JohnM used that service to get some paper models. You can contact him and see how things went.

[JohnM]

I did indeed use Atom's services to obtain some otherwise impossible to get KaiCraft animal models. A very successful deal resulted in these beauties gracing my shelves ...



Read all about it here ... Japanese Members ???

[cafe]

My first encounter with the Yamato was in the Yoko Tsuno album "La Fille du Vent" (1979) where its wreck is used by the bad guy as a base to launch tornado-generating missiles. The same album also has hovercraft-launched fighter bombers to destroy those tornadoes (using conventional and nuclear weapons).

More pics here (you can see the hovercraft but not the 2 rocket planes it carries inside).

edit: actually there's a page with them here: https://p3.storage.canalblog.com/33/...2/58555544.jpg

[kusimaru]

This scene.

[cfuruti]

Originally Posted by JohnGay

Speaking of Space Battleship Yamato:
Has anyone watched the movie from 2010?
I watched it a few years ago and thought it wasn't half bad, considering it's been decades since I watched Star Blazers as a young teen.

Reasonably faithful to the anime's spirit, while getting rid of the silliest plot points. Nice visuals. Personal sacrifices galore. Top-notch soundtrack, and of course that glorious main theme.