Now THAT's a model!!!

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Posted: 3/9/2016 6:45:42 PM EDT

I'm a big fan of plastic models (I've built a bunch of them over the last 5 decades) but, WOW!
That's just "crazy" (And cool at the same time)

Any other model builders wann'a show their stuff? (I know we have some really good

IPMS folks here and I'm shamelessly looking to have them post up some of their stuff

).

EDIT: Someone wanted more information about where this was at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato_Museum

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:47:00 PM EDT

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If you plug a few quarters into the machine, does the pool fill up with water?

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:48:26 PM EDT

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But did they teach a bunch of high school kids to build it on a shoe string budget and only during one class period per day?

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:50:56 PM EDT

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I bet dusting it is a bitch

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:51:24 PM EDT

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The Japanese really love the Yamato, don't they?

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:53:24 PM EDT

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At some point it stops being a model and starts being a small ship.

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:54:11 PM EDT

[#6]

Needs a Space Battleship version hanging above it.

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:55:38 PM EDT

[#7]

Impressive.

any story links or info on the company that built it?

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:58:19 PM EDT

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Not the sort of "model" that I was expecting, but impressive none the less.

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:58:55 PM EDT

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I'm not sure who built it, but it is the 1/10 Battleship Yamato in the Yamato Museum in Hiroshima, Japan.

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:58:56 PM EDT

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Someone's virginity is safe and sound because of that model.

Posted: 3/9/2016 6:59:16 PM EDT

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As a kid I had an interest in models. My dad built me a big ass Kenworth model one year.
At the time my mom was remarried and I lived with her and my step dad.

Step dad was a douche and I came home from school one day and my truck was smashed.

Fucking asshole.

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:04:14 PM EDT

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Yes, I would walk in there singing Starblazers.

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:05:06 PM EDT

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I assume there no models of TBF/TBM's or SB2C's there?

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:07:27 PM EDT

[#14]

paging guns762, guns762 to the white phone

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:10:39 PM EDT

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Not enough to fill the tanks and want it back.

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:11:22 PM EDT

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Yet not as much as Gundam apparently:[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1FjDeao2-0[/youtube]
Now if we would just start with the Heavy Arms iteration, any of them.

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:11:36 PM EDT

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Thats no model...its a space station!

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:17:53 PM EDT

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I want one of those, but actually seaworthy. Would be fun to putt around a lake

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:29:05 PM EDT

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Op posts a photo WITHOUT CREDITS??

No link, no idea what is being shown.

Ok, it's probably a battleship.

Making a post is like making a sitrep. Only works when complete information is presented.

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:30:27 PM EDT

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Where's the thread of the art teacher here that builds cool models, I thought he was building a ship this year.

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:37:37 PM EDT

[#21]

Iowa class?

Nevermind.

Uchu sen-kan Yamato!

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:38:21 PM EDT

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Nice

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:39:36 PM EDT

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Your username was made for that model

Posted: 3/9/2016 7:41:31 PM EDT

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FPNI everytime

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:19:00 PM EDT

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Teak deck?

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:20:28 PM EDT

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Needs a Wave Motion gun to be complete, as well as a Black Tiger squadron

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:22:33 PM EDT

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As did the bottom of the Pacific...

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:23:17 PM EDT

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I like it a lot better like this.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:27:36 PM EDT

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Not the sort of "model" that I was expecting, but impressive none the less.

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This! Thread title had me expecting something entirely different.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:29:10 PM EDT

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Not the sort of "model" that I was expecting, but impressive none the less.

This! Thread title had me expecting something entirely different.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:35:21 PM EDT

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Clicked for the tits. Stayed for the history.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:39:25 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/9/2016 8:46:38 PM EDT

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Missing the wave motion gun.

Funny thing is a journey around wikipedia just a couple days ago I was brought to the link about that model.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:46:58 PM EDT

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I like it a lot better like this.

http://www.uss-bennington.org/pics/phznh62584.jpg

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Posted: 3/9/2016 8:49:03 PM EDT

[#35]

cool but hard to display

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:49:32 PM EDT

[#36]

Why not make a model of a successful one? The original of that one is on the bottom of the ocean!

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:51:03 PM EDT

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I like it a lot better like this.

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Posted: 3/9/2016 8:52:04 PM EDT

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Amazing what money can build.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:52:48 PM EDT

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Just needs a small block and some 20mm now.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:54:29 PM EDT

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As a kid I had an interest in models. My dad built me a big ass Kenworth model one year.
At the time my mom was remarried and I lived with her and my step dad.

Step dad was a douche and I came home from school one day and my truck was smashed.

Fucking asshole.

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Stepfathers have been put down for less--especially in Texas. What an asshole!

Posted: 3/9/2016 9:01:19 PM EDT

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Well played.

Posted: 3/9/2016 9:30:59 PM EDT

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Stepfathers have been put down for less--especially in Texas. What an asshole!

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As a kid I had an interest in models. My dad built me a big ass Kenworth model one year.
At the time my mom was remarried and I lived with her and my step dad.

Step dad was a douche and I came home from school one day and my truck was smashed.

Fucking asshole.

Stepfathers have been put down for less--especially in Texas. What an asshole!

What an asshole. When I was a kid the babysitter's boyfriend and his pal decided to smash a couple of my favorite models (a P 38 and a A6M5 Zero, for some reason I still remember lol ) so I shot one with my bb gun and held the other off just in time for the folks to get home. Lost my bb gun for two weeks, but the old man said he would have done it too. LOL.

Posted: 3/9/2016 9:34:39 PM EDT

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We're off to outer space.

We're leaving Mother Earth.

To save the human race.

Posted: 3/9/2016 9:35:20 PM EDT

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There have been one or two battleship models that were built so that the superstructure tilted to the side, exposing the seat for boarding, then was placed back in position for cruising around small lakes (small windows in the superstructure, and trolling motors for propulsion, as I recall).

Posted: 3/9/2016 9:39:27 PM EDT

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There's a recent Japanese movie about the Yamato. They built part of a full scale replica and CGI the rest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoP62Emv5xk