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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jumpei Mitsui wrote:
Jumpei,
That is beautiful. Truly a thing of utter beauty.
I am currently planning out a true-minifig-scale model of
the battleship Fuso ca. 1944, though I am going closer to
1:35 scale given that minifigs are not truly to human propor-
tions. My building style is very different, but I can only
hope the outcome will be anywhere near as beautiful as this
is looking now! I intend to build it in a manner similar
to my now-aged Takao, but with the sides fully tiled (oof,
that’s a lot of dark grey tiles) and a superstructure that
does in fact hew to the actual appearance of the historical ship
which my desire to have interior detail prevented in my 1:60 model. I see
however that you are also building Yamato with plate-sculpting, and it looks
wonderful; you avoided using slopes for the difficult bow curvature and it
actually looks a great deal better than my attempt did.
Those HG (and MCG) turrets are beautiful. Your barrel designs
are similar in principle to what I wanted for Fuso’s 41-shiki,
though I had not decided if I was going to follow a sculpture
or a plate-hinge-turntable approach for handling those corners.
I may lean more towards sculpting them, though, having now seen
your beauties.
The launches and the spotter plane are marvelous!
May I borrow your design for the 96-shiki? I had not
devised one but your lovely design has thoroughly infected
me. If it is all right, may I also borrow from some of your
solutions to the myriad rails and ladders used on the turret
housings?
Do the guns on the 89-shiki actually elevate with the 1x2
plate series in situ?
My only concern is the time it has taken you to build so far; it is not
making me optimistic about having mine done in time for Brickfest this summer!
I do not yet have any major assemblies completed, but then, when I do start I
will have six to eight hours a day, four days a week, to work on it. Roughly
how many hours do you think you have spent so far on building Yamato? And do
you intend to have significant interior detail in, say, the HG turrets, the
hull, or the closed areas of the conning tower?
From what source material are you working? Is it one of the Conway’s History
books (which is what I do), or did you acquire copies of the original plans
which I believe still exist?
There is so much to comment on with this, I don’t know where to start. Yes, I’m
excited. Maybe I should re-plan at 1:40, then we can put them in formation! :)
all best
LFB
PS: http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~lfbraun/takao.html is were mine hides. Email
me at braun at history dot rutgers dot edu, not this email, if you care to
correspond. I would very much enjoy hearing more about this project, as it is
one very close to my heart...
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