Hello everyone, just starting on a new kit from Space Battleship Yamato. I have quite a few kits in my stash…along with a 1/500 Yamato coming in the mail, so as I make my way through my stash, I look forward to posting them here.
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Looks like a fun build …
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Yes…it is Bandai…everything fits together like a glove.
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Hi, I know this is an older post but just now came across it. Is this the same ship from that 80s cartoon Starblazers? I think that was also based on the Yamato but I don’t see the name on the box. Maybe to avoid marketing/franchise fees?
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No issues. It is from ‘Star Blazers’. Or more accurately ‘Star Blazers 2199’ which is a reboot using newer animation techniques, I believe. Both are the name for the export version of the shows. The Japanese refer to it as ‘Space Battleship Yamato’, hence why the box says what it says.
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Ah ok thanks for the clarification. I thought this looked a bit different than what I recall as a kid in the 80s. Being the reboot version explains why I guess as I dont think I watched the newer version… still would be a cool model to have one day.
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As an aside, Space Battleship Yamato was intended to be very close in size to the real Battleship Yamato. As the series progresses, various people working on the project lengthened the ship by about 30 meters.
However, when sets and specifications are analyzed in detail, it becomes clear that the dimensions given for Space Battleship Yamato are much too small. It has a bad case of fantasy spaceship disease, where the internal sets cannot possibly fit inside the external model. It is estimated that a more realistic (for a fantasy spaceship) Space Battleship Yamato, with everything fitting inside, would measure 500 to 700 meters. If so, all models of the ship are significantly under scale. A 1/700 scale Space Battleship Yamato is probably close to 1/1000 scale.
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I seem to recall it was supposed to be built from the wreck of the real Yamato; that had not been found when the series started so the imagined wreck wasn’t as messed up as it actually is…
Cheers,
M
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Ayup. In the original story, Space Battleship Yamato is the World War II Battleship Yamato, repaired and massively upgraded. In the retconned story, the wreck of the Battleship Yamato serves as camouflage for the construction of a completely new Space Battleship Yamato, thus hiding the project from the Gamilas/Gamilons.
In the original story, Space Battleship Yamato is purpose built for the journey to Iscandar. In the retconned story, Space Battleship Yamato is an evacuation ship, already under construction when Princess Astra arrives with plans for the Wave Motion Engine and other Iscandaran technologies. It is subsequently repurposed for the journey to Iscandar.
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I remember being at the San Diego Comic-Con when the announcement spread through the con that they’d discovered the wreck of the Yamato… followed quickly by the disappointment of finding out that the ship had broken in half on its way to the bottom.
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An update…it has been a while…almost done with the build phase…all the AA guns made me nervous with my sausage fingers.
Next comes some paint touch-ups…decals…and some panel lining.
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Gamilon headquarters! Our Earth target was not an underground city. It’s a space battleship. The biggest I’ve ever seen!
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Sounds like you are a fan of the series also. I watched the originals when I was a kid…and just watched 2199 and 2205 on Crunchyroll.
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