Shipbucket

Thank you, everyone for your kindness. I will soon post the 1945 Yamatos, and before I do, I want to be forward about it. There is a great deal of controversy in how the Yamato was precisely fitted out in her last 4 months of operation, most of the articles and books you read are from other nations and based on photo analysis. The Japanese destroyed much of their records of Yamato after the war, leaving a void of uncertainty. What I will be portraying is from either the 1/10 Yamato model at the Yamato museum in Kure (arguably the most accurate for criteria March 1945) and studies and diagrams posted on the wreck of the ship, hence all Japanese sources and studies. It is also likely that I will post several different versions of same drawings, in that a lot is still uncertain.

Fantastic (and hard) work. I - and certainly all others here as well - am looking forward to see further additions.

I'm looking forward to them, as well as the 1943 version.

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Hell I'll do it first.

This is kind of a fluke since I did not doe this earlier, but here is Yamato criteria July 1943:



Here also is a rare close up photo of her entering Truk Lagoon earlier that year:

what chan i say else than "freaking amazing" ?

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Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

Beautiful work!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Hahaha I know you have been waiting for it for a while Emperor. First page has been updated.

It's just been noticed (ok, pointed out to me by an eagle-eyed member who wishes to go unnamed) that the entire tertiary and quaternary batteries are not positioned fore and aft. So yeah, that needs to be fixed for it to be up to Shipbucket standards.

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Could you be more specific please? I'm afraid I do not know what batteries you are pointing out.