Especially when the wife finds out you could have bought a Hyundai for what the kit cost.....I'd wake up in the middle of the night with mine holding my still beating heart in her claw......I mean, hand....
After the battle of Midway, the actual spent a lot of its short career anchored in the Truk lagoon acting as Yamamoto's floating headquarters. It was called the floating palace by many of the IJN captains in the region, and was especially liked by them as it had air conditioning and freezers full of cold beer.😀
And that card model was a lot cheaper! I used to belong to the Warship Modeler site and there were members who used card models as the basis for scratch building larger scale models. One I remember being fone was the USS Indianapolis. Of course one great feature of card models is the ability to rescale. Just a little bit hard in styrene.
Great roundup of the rails and sprues, and more rails😜. It was only missing the box opening shots, how the boxes were laid out IS important to know. For a 200 scale ship, not an outrageous price really, and would still expect to spend another $500 on gun barrels and other aftermarket (maybe not more rails tho). Gonna need a bigger paint booth too while I'm thinking about it 🤔.
I am glad I don’t make nautical model kits, especially this kit, just did a quick eBay search and it appears that there are no United Kingdom 🇬🇧 sellers, however, you can purchase it from a United States 🇺🇸 seller, the price tag……………hold onto your hats, just shy of £1000 + shipping for just under £300, that makes it a very very large investment for most people here in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, but thanks for sharing the unboxing, that is a lot of kit, it is no surprise that it is expensive and that it is probably value for money 💴. Thanks again FSM. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦
Awesome, but remember, theres vast differences between the yamato as built originally, and the subsequent refits during its career. I hope for the price, they give you parts for all versions.
They are all the same kit. The different boxings are for different distribution areas that roughly equate to MonoChrome in Asia; Glow2B in Europe; Gallery in North America.
@@snowmexicanowens8431 Agreed, a lot of money for a kit. I'd never get it because I don't have the room for it once I completed it..but skip to 6:21 and look how small the two guys look compared to it. lol
@@DarksouIjah Same here and at rate things are going I'll never be able to get a house to keep it but I can always dream thankfully and yeah they look almost comically small comparing to it lol!
I am Currently building This Kit. I purchased it from Ed’s Hobby Shop in Myrtle Beach SC. I just completed a 1:200 scale Nichimo Yamato, this kit is light years ahead of the original kit in detail. I have been working on it and have successfully completed all small Boats, and two aircraft. LOL the small boats contain 7 - 8 different Photoetch parts alone.
As kids, my younger brother and I would ride home on the train after buying model kits. My little brother would practically build the entire model kit on the way home...I would love to see him now travelling home with the Yamato 1:200....🤣🤣
That is a remarkable kit and actually the price is not that unreasonable considering that you have pretty much all you need for a very impressive and quite detailed model right out of the box. In the UK I think it retails at about £100 less than Border's issue of the Wingnut Wings 1/32 Lancaster (another remarkable kit BTW).
Actually, we'd be interested in knowing how much of both will be used on finished version. We have a builder working on it right now, and we'll ask him to keep tabs. Thanks for watching!
I look forward to acquiring this model, will go nicely with my 1/200 Iowa class (Missouri) though that ship designation is still being decided, the only one I ever got to visit was Wisconsin, but the ship was randomly closed that day. 🙃 Oh, and they both are going to be RC. Cause, what's the point in a giant paper weight?!
Friggin awesome. I'm too old, though. I'd never live to see it finished. So, I bought a Lego titanic for 600 some bucks. Even that is going to be a project to share with the many family Lego nuts. If I was 20 or 30 though...
The kit is branded differently, depending on which part of the world you buy it from. EG in Europe it is listed as a Glow2M kit. But its really a Trumpeter kit.
Gallery Model is a brand owned by MRC. It contracted with Trumpeter to produce the 1/200 Yamato. Other companies around the world have contracted for the same kit. There may be slight differences with what is in the box depending upon who you buy the kit from (MRC as opposed to Glow or whomever). Otherwise, all new.
@@FineScaleModelermagazine I saw a review of the Monochrome version from a guy in Australia. Its interesting that the box of that model, does not mention Yamato on any part of the box. I assume it has something to do with licensing.
Yep, there's a LOT of ship in that box! The price doesn't get me. It's the size of that huge box. I build car models by Model Factory Hiro and their 1/12 kits regularly exceed $800 so when I see this model and think about how much joy some 1/200 ship builder is going to have, it's not unreasonable. I think I'll stick with 1/700 ships (and 1/43 MFH models)!
There really is a lot of ship in the box. And you make a great point: Expectations and sensitivity to price varies greatly from modeler to modeler. Large-scale ships are cool, but you can fit a whole bunch more 1/700 scale ships on your shelf!
I am surprised trumpeter hasn't yet produced the Yamato in its 1/200 extensive range of WW2 war ships. The largest I have built so far is the Missouri which will be a couple of inches shorter than this. This is a kit I might treat myself to later this year but finding the shelf space is another story but I do tend to spend quite a lot on making acrylic dust covers for them.
MRC in the U.S. (and other companies around the world) contracted with Trumpeter to produce this kit for its Gallery Models range--so, in essence, it has produced the Yamato to go alongside its other 1/200 scale warships. Good luck on finding the space and building a new cover!
Impressive I wonder what it cost to product all the injection dies for this amazing and how many would be sold world wide in first year of production .
Tooling up for your average new kit is an expensive investment--somewhere in the $100K ballpark. We surmise it's quite a bit more for Yamato. Obviously, we'll have to wait to see what the first year of sales will be, but our sources tell us pre-orders were strong and good sales are carrying through post release. Of course, we don't know number of units produced, internal sales budgets and the like, but, by all accounts, distributors are happy.
Now that's a serious model, a lot of people buy these to convert into R/C due to the high detail these kits offer, rather than a basic R/C you can take down the local lake. 1/350 carrier is big, 1/200 even bigger, plus in this scale much better figures available plus a good phototech offering everything from brass barrel to upper structure
Nice shirt Tim! Up the Irons! As Dirty Harry said, "a man has got to know his limitations". What a kit! Short of a museum, where do you display the finished model? More importantly, where do you build a kit that large?
Up the Irons! Scream for me, fine-scale modelers! This kit is most definitely for serious ship modelers, and those who make the choice to buy it either have the room for it or know where it's going to have a good home. And for those who are going to tuck it away in their stash, just be ready to devote a whole shelf to it alone!
What I’m most impressed about it that the manufacturer molded most of the parts; and did not rely too much on flat photoetched metal. Price is too steep for a plastic kit.
As we say in the review, we know the ship isn't for everyone, and some modelers really don't like photo-etched parts. But, from a purely cost perspective, we have to agree with you that the price isn't out of line with what comes in the box. Thanks for watching!
And the largest battleships or warships ever sunk - both of them. Thanks go out to Mark Mitscher and TF 38/58 for making the previous announcement possible.
Unless you count the USS America CV-66 sunk in secret by the US Navy after 25 days of attacking it with every weapon in the book to test a modern carriers survivability.
Is this the kit that’s priced at approximately $700? If so, has anyone built, with period correct detailing? Would love to see a video of ‘that’ process. 🤙🤙🤙
I'm curious what was 'missing' on the Box A sprue at roughly 2:30 ? I can't imagine the sprues are used across kits so to see a big space for a missing part seems very unusual.
Trumpeter did the manufacturing and contracted with distributors to sell the kit under different brands. Gallery Models is owned by Model Rectifier Corp. in the U.S. Other distributors have proprietary brand names for sales in Europe and elsewhere. Not an uncommon deal in the scale model industry.
You're definitely not going to need a bigger boat. This has to be the limit of scale modeling, scale wise. I can imagine some true detail aficionado making those guns actually fire, 22 calibre might work.
The modeller you have chosen for the build review WILL do an excellent job. He is a superb builder!. As an indication of how big the box is, let alone the model, your shipping parcel was too big for his porch! It's a good thing no one took the parcel off of it!! LOL It'll be interesting to see how he will ship it back to you!
Fine video, but I had never heard "Yamato" pronounced with the accent on the first syllable instead of the second. Does that even matter? Probably not.
The realization for us came from listening to Japanese people saying the name, and we were like, Oh! YAH-ma-to is the way it should be pronounced. Even now, after years of hearing ya-MAH-to, it's tough to not slip back into that, but we're trying to be better about it.
@@patrickroos739 maybe these distributors get a better price and advertising for themselves with their name on the box. I have also noticed the instructions booklet is a different type in each distributors box. Could be the way trumpeter distribute big kits from now on.
This can get a bit confusing and more nuanced, but here's the quick version: Gallery Models is a company owned by Model Rectifier Corp (MRC), based in the U.S. It contracted with Trumpeter to produce a 1/200 scale Yamato. Trumpeter has contracts with other companies around the world for the same kit, thus the different boxings. These sorts of deals aren't unusual in the scale model industry.
Hi John, we pronounced it as close as we could to the Japanese pronunciation, the Yamato's language of origin, where the accent would be on the first syllable. It may not be exact, but that isn't for lack of trying!
Trumpeter made one goodness 8 - 10 years ago. I've had it in the stash for at lest 5 years and i got it used ( the guy had put together the bonus turret)
@@FineScaleModelermagazine Ouch! Hearing you guys constantly mispronounce Yamato is painful to hear. It's YA MA TO not YAMA TO. Yama is mountain in Japanese, Yamato was not named after a mountain.
According to our findings, the emphasis on the second syllable is an Americanization of the name. What we've been told by Japanese speakers and can hear with close listening ourselves in Japanese-language movies and television, the accent is on the first syllable: YAH-mah-to. As one person explained it to us: It's like Yamaha; YAH-ma-ha, not yah-MAH-ha. We don't claim to be the experts on pronunciation of foreign words, but we do our research and try to pronounce non-English words correctly, despite our varied results. Thanks for watching!
Finescale modeller we actually got the 1/200 scale arii version direct from Japan via Amazon post free for £198 a few years ago .And it's currently unavailable on Amazon now.Boy did we get a bargain £198 and its massive with a load of extra brass etchings with it also unavailable now.Sorry we definitely won't be buying yours for that price.Also we live in Australia so have a direct link with Japan .That we supplied to our mate in the UK
Yep. Trumpeter has a contract with Gallery Models (owned by Model Rectifier Corp. in the U.S.). It has contracts with brands in other parts of the world for the same model. Not unusual in the scale model industry.
The old 1/200 Nichimo kit was easier to build with fewer parts, and Artwox does a nice wooden deck for it. The kit is out of production but can be found some places for half the price of this one.
All I have seen is close to the same price. Plus the detail is fuzzy as compared. Watched a video on construction of it (Nichimo kit)and the rear upper hull parts fit poorly. Have to spend a ton to get some photo etch and it is far less accurate.
![[Commissioned] 1/200 Yamato Full Build. (World of Warships Camouflage, Nichimo+Fujimi)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/oRgH3rHDF3Y/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Commissioned] 1/200 Yamato Full Build. (World of Warships Camouflage, Nichimo+Fujimi)](/img/tr.png)
One additional value is that you can use the box as a coffin.
Always look on the bright side of life ...
LMFAO
Definitely the designers are aware married modellers are gonna be in serious danger after their wives find this kit somewhere around their houses
😂😂😂
Especially when the wife finds out you could have bought a Hyundai for what the kit cost.....I'd wake up in the middle of the night with mine holding my still beating heart in her claw......I mean, hand....
I was stationed in Japan in the the mid 1990's and they had this kit in 1/200 scale
After the battle of Midway, the actual spent a lot of its short career anchored in the Truk lagoon acting as Yamamoto's floating headquarters. It was called the floating palace by many of the IJN captains in the region, and was especially liked by them as it had air conditioning and freezers full of cold beer.😀
Thanks for watching and sharing that tidbit of history!
...nicknamed 'Hotel Yamato'...!
That is a big ship! I built a full-hull HMS Hood cardstock model at the same scale years ago and you will need some serious shelf space for this one!
And that card model was a lot cheaper! I used to belong to the Warship Modeler site and there were members who used card models as the basis for scratch building larger scale models. One I remember being fone was the USS Indianapolis. Of course one great feature of card models is the ability to rescale. Just a little bit hard in styrene.
My cat would knock it off that shelf in no time.
@@scottw550
Now if the model was in HO scale the main guns would be just about .22 cal. 😂
yes very big all 52 inches of it as I've had one delivered last week it's bloody huge and all 2,800 part of it
Great roundup of the rails and sprues, and more rails😜. It was only missing the box opening shots, how the boxes were laid out IS important to know. For a 200 scale ship, not an outrageous price really, and would still expect to spend another $500 on gun barrels and other aftermarket (maybe not more rails tho). Gonna need a bigger paint booth too while I'm thinking about it 🤔.
All good points. Thanks for watching!
I am glad I don’t make nautical model kits, especially this kit, just did a quick eBay search and it appears that there are no United Kingdom 🇬🇧 sellers, however, you can purchase it from a United States 🇺🇸 seller, the price tag……………hold onto your hats, just shy of £1000 + shipping for just under £300, that makes it a very very large investment for most people here in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, but thanks for sharing the unboxing, that is a lot of kit, it is no surprise that it is expensive and that it is probably value for money 💴. Thanks again FSM. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴🇺🇸🇺🇦
This is a once in a lifetime kit.
What a great way to look at it!
Well 2 would copy reality!
Awesome, but remember, theres vast differences between the yamato as built originally, and the subsequent refits during its career. I hope for the price, they give you parts for all versions.
No doubt. Some of that will be explored in an article about building the kit in a future issue of FSM. Thanks for watching!
I might be wrong but there is a three yamato ships to get in 1/200 scale. Monochrome, Glow2b and Gallery models. My question is which one to get?
They are all the same kit. The different boxings are for different distribution areas that roughly equate to MonoChrome in Asia; Glow2B in Europe; Gallery in North America.
Great video... you can find this kit online for $650-$675 in case anyone was wondering.
Pass
$650-$675 is still steep but that is better than $800 something!
@@snowmexicanowens8431 Agreed, a lot of money for a kit. I'd never get it because I don't have the room for it once I completed it..but skip to 6:21 and look how small the two guys look compared to it. lol
@@DarksouIjah Same here and at rate things are going I'll never be able to get a house to keep it but I can always dream thankfully and yeah they look almost comically small comparing to it lol!
Picked it up from Squadron right as it was coming out for $580
Now THIS is the kind of thing to give a model-builder at the start of COVID! "How many parts does it have?" 'Um...all of them I think...'
I am Currently building This Kit. I purchased it from Ed’s Hobby Shop in Myrtle Beach SC. I just completed a 1:200 scale Nichimo Yamato, this kit is light years ahead of the original kit in detail. I have been working on it and have successfully completed all small Boats, and two aircraft. LOL the small boats contain 7 - 8 different Photoetch parts alone.
Very cool!
Just wait for aftermarket detail sets to come out then it will really be crazy..
It's definitely a commitment. Time, mony and display space
As kids, my younger brother and I would ride home on the train after buying model kits. My little brother would practically build the entire model kit on the way home...I would love to see him now travelling home with the Yamato 1:200....🤣🤣
Hi am starting to build this kit but am using Tamiya XF75 or XF 73 is this the right color
That is a remarkable kit and actually the price is not that unreasonable considering that you have pretty much all you need for a very impressive and quite detailed model right out of the box. In the UK I think it retails at about £100 less than Border's issue of the Wingnut Wings 1/32 Lancaster (another remarkable kit BTW).
This kit requires a jug of glue and gallons of paint… ❤ looks nice for a very patient person
Actually, we'd be interested in knowing how much of both will be used on finished version. We have a builder working on it right now, and we'll ask him to keep tabs. Thanks for watching!
I look forward to acquiring this model, will go nicely with my 1/200 Iowa class (Missouri) though that ship designation is still being decided, the only one I ever got to visit was Wisconsin, but the ship was randomly closed that day. 🙃
Oh, and they both are going to be RC. Cause, what's the point in a giant paper weight?!
Nice looking model. Just getting back into the hobby would love to try a 1/200 sometime.
Go for it!
Get the Arizona.
Friggin awesome. I'm too old, though. I'd never live to see it finished. So, I bought a Lego titanic for 600 some bucks. Even that is going to be a project to share with the many family Lego nuts. If I was 20 or 30 though...
It is AWESOME in the most literal sense of the word. Humongous with plenty of detail. Good luck with the LEGO Titanic!
@@FineScaleModelermagazine thanks. Family fun.
Does it have detailed rigging plans? For $700.00 it should be detailed to the 9999s.
A reboxing of the Monochrome model of the Yamato with mouldings by Trumpeter
The kit is branded differently, depending on which part of the world you buy it from. EG in Europe it is listed as a Glow2M kit. But its really a Trumpeter kit.
Gallery Model is a brand owned by MRC. It contracted with Trumpeter to produce the 1/200 Yamato. Other companies around the world have contracted for the same kit. There may be slight differences with what is in the box depending upon who you buy the kit from (MRC as opposed to Glow or whomever). Otherwise, all new.
@@FineScaleModelermagazine I saw a review of the Monochrome version from a guy in Australia. Its interesting that the box of that model, does not mention Yamato on any part of the box. I assume it has something to do with licensing.
Even if I had that kind of money to buy that kit, I don’t have that many years left to build it. LOL!
Yep, there's a LOT of ship in that box! The price doesn't get me. It's the size of that huge box. I build car models by Model Factory Hiro and their 1/12 kits regularly exceed $800 so when I see this model and think about how much joy some 1/200 ship builder is going to have, it's not unreasonable. I think I'll stick with 1/700 ships (and 1/43 MFH models)!
There really is a lot of ship in the box. And you make a great point: Expectations and sensitivity to price varies greatly from modeler to modeler. Large-scale ships are cool, but you can fit a whole bunch more 1/700 scale ships on your shelf!
Wow,,what a kit.!..All I can say is…Wish someone a new tooled 1/48 Jake float plain.!
Great video guys thank you🇬🇧🇺🇸👍
That would be cool! Thanks for watching.
I am surprised trumpeter hasn't yet produced the Yamato in its 1/200 extensive range of WW2 war ships. The largest I have built so far is the Missouri which will be a couple of inches shorter than this. This is a kit I might treat myself to later this year but finding the shelf space is another story but I do tend to spend quite a lot on making acrylic dust covers for them.
MRC in the U.S. (and other companies around the world) contracted with Trumpeter to produce this kit for its Gallery Models range--so, in essence, it has produced the Yamato to go alongside its other 1/200 scale warships. Good luck on finding the space and building a new cover!
Would have to add a dry dock to my garage to build this! …and I thought 1/350 was a monster!
Need to get Plasmo on this one right away!
Impressive I wonder what it cost to product all the injection dies for this amazing and how many would be sold world wide in first year of production .
Tooling up for your average new kit is an expensive investment--somewhere in the $100K ballpark. We surmise it's quite a bit more for Yamato. Obviously, we'll have to wait to see what the first year of sales will be, but our sources tell us pre-orders were strong and good sales are carrying through post release. Of course, we don't know number of units produced, internal sales budgets and the like, but, by all accounts, distributors are happy.
Now that's a serious model, a lot of people buy these to convert into R/C due to the high detail these kits offer, rather than a basic R/C you can take down the local lake. 1/350 carrier is big, 1/200 even bigger, plus in this scale much better figures available plus a good phototech offering everything from brass barrel to upper structure
Definitely could be converted to radio-control. Thanks for watching!
Nice shirt Tim! Up the Irons!
As Dirty Harry said, "a man has got to know his limitations". What a kit! Short of a museum, where do you display the finished model? More importantly, where do you build a kit that large?
Up the Irons! Scream for me, fine-scale modelers! This kit is most definitely for serious ship modelers, and those who make the choice to buy it either have the room for it or know where it's going to have a good home. And for those who are going to tuck it away in their stash, just be ready to devote a whole shelf to it alone!
Now get me an Earth Spacedock this size w/lighting kit and I’m all in for the $600-$700!
Wow, what a kit!
What I’m most impressed about it that the manufacturer molded most of the parts; and did not rely too much on flat photoetched metal. Price is too steep for a plastic kit.
It's a nice kit, but definitely not for everyone.
What a kit! 😍
I have built the 1/200 scale Yamato by Nichimo. It took me 4.5 months to build.
Congrats and thanks for watching!
You say ya-MAH-to and I say ya-mah-TO.
We say Yah-mah-toh (or at least try to).
@@FineScaleModelermagazine Whatever floats your boat … er, battleship. Great work as always!
Hello. How do I sneak it past the wife ? I can see the scenario - how much send it back .G/ Bye Mark
Get her on board with building it, that way no sneaking and no sending it back!
just saw that at hobbytown
Have to ask Dimensions? Weight?
When we shipped the box, it weighed in at around 20 lbs. Don't know the weight of the completed model--yet. The hull in the box measured 54" long.
@@FineScaleModelermagazine WOW! Never watched videos on model's but have on WW2 thanks
Impressive! This needs to be made as the ship from "Space Battleship Yamato," aka "Star Blazers."
IIRC, that ship was close enough to the original that it wouldn't need to be modified too much.
Considering it comes with all that photo etch the price is fantastic!
As we say in the review, we know the ship isn't for everyone, and some modelers really don't like photo-etched parts. But, from a purely cost perspective, we have to agree with you that the price isn't out of line with what comes in the box. Thanks for watching!
Detailers might find some fun. Me, I will collect.
Go for it!
And the largest battleships or warships ever sunk - both of them. Thanks go out to Mark Mitscher and TF 38/58 for making the previous announcement possible.
Unless you count the USS America CV-66 sunk in secret by the US Navy after 25 days of attacking it with every weapon in the book to test a modern carriers survivability.
@@Bellthorian Good point! I should have added "in combat".
Is this the kit that’s priced at approximately $700? If so, has anyone built, with period correct detailing? Would love to see a video of ‘that’ process. 🤙🤙🤙
We have one of our regular contributors, Harvey Low, building it right now.
@@FineScaleModelermagazine outstanding…I hope he posts a video of the build 👍
4:16 Bruh, hold my beer.
LOL
Don't forget a gallon of paint.
And of course… Up The Irons!!!
Very Ad-Hoc with the Senjutsu t-shirt!
Scream for me!
price is ok for a model of that size imo
So...does it come with railings?
Lots and lots
I'm curious what was 'missing' on the Box A sprue at roughly 2:30 ? I can't imagine the sprues are used across kits so to see a big space for a missing part seems very unusual.
There was a space on that sprue. Maybe there's a Musashi in the offing?
@@FineScaleModelermagazine When this happens it's often for a part for a variant kit, so very likely!
Gonna see some etched brass stuff coming soon
15 sheets of it if you're buying this behemoth!
What made us smile was him saying it was 52 inches long , instead of just over 4 foot long . 52 inches seems much more !
Well, to be fair, the 52 is more accurate.
which box are the guns in
Sorry, Ronald, but we don't remember. And the model is long gone to a contributor to the magazine.
Needs a conversion kit to add a Wave Motion Gun…
EXACTLY!
That is massive!!!
It really is!
Holy molly that’s a big ship! If you folks at FSM are having trouble storing the Yamato, I can hold it for ya! 😉
Sorry! It already went out to our long-time contributor Harvey Low for a big feature story.
Wow. Just wow.
That's what we said!
Thbe inner packaging made me think that it was manufactured by Trumpeter and repackaged for another retailer
Trumpeter did the manufacturing and contracted with distributors to sell the kit under different brands. Gallery Models is owned by Model Rectifier Corp. in the U.S. Other distributors have proprietary brand names for sales in Europe and elsewhere. Not an uncommon deal in the scale model industry.
That's a big beast.
Quite huge-ish!
Should also have an age restriction on the kit, so you might actually live long enough to complete it...
LOL
Bought it for 400€ from ms-plueth!
Good get!
Oh my gosh!!
Indeed.
Let us know when they do A Shinano, With Accurate Aircraft, in that Scale!
If we see one, we'll definitely let you know!
@@FineScaleModelermagazine Good! I got the Old Doyusha 1/250 Shinano Kit; Don't know if I'll ever Build it.
I 👍 LIKE THE SPACE FARING VERSION BETTER !!!
Then that's the one you should build!
You're definitely not going to need a bigger boat. This has to be the limit of scale modeling, scale wise. I can imagine some true detail aficionado making those guns actually fire, 22 calibre might work.
Massive
It really is.
...And I thought $50 for the Revell Saturn V kit was a lot!
It's all about perspective. Thanks for watching!
A far cry from the ancient Nichimo kit of the same scale. No way I would ever pay that much for a plastic model.
There is a lot of kit in the box. It's definitely not for everyone.
Buy two...one for extra/spare parts
The modeller you have chosen for the build review WILL do an excellent job. He is a superb builder!.
As an indication of how big the box is, let alone the model, your shipping parcel was too big for his porch! It's a good thing no one took the parcel off of it!! LOL
It'll be interesting to see how he will ship it back to you!
We love Harvey! Big plans are in the works for that kit and we can't wait to get it into the magazine.
@@FineScaleModelermagazine - that model is so long, you may have to print photos of it as a centrefold!
That's a ship load of a kit...😂
It is. It really is.
@@FineScaleModelermagazine Out of my price range but, says the person with a 1/35 scale Dora railway cannon😂
Fine video, but I had never heard "Yamato" pronounced with the accent on the first syllable instead of the second. Does that even matter? Probably not.
The realization for us came from listening to Japanese people saying the name, and we were like, Oh! YAH-ma-to is the way it should be pronounced. Even now, after years of hearing ya-MAH-to, it's tough to not slip back into that, but we're trying to be better about it.
Kit is bigger than me.
Wow, what a monster size kit. Better clean off the old work bench to build this baby.
Wow! $829.00!
Yes, but it is A LOT of kit.
Clearly a Trumpeter kit, why is this in particular sold under another brand? And guys, not even PE is "scale thin" in 1/200.
Its sold under three brands depending where in the world you are, Gallery models in USA
@@OzScalemodeling Thats not an answer, so why is this Trumpeter kit in particular sold under THREE brand then?
@@patrickroos739 maybe these distributors get a better price and advertising for themselves with their name on the box. I have also noticed the instructions booklet is a different type in each distributors box. Could be the way trumpeter distribute big kits from now on.
This can get a bit confusing and more nuanced, but here's the quick version: Gallery Models is a company owned by Model Rectifier Corp (MRC), based in the U.S. It contracted with Trumpeter to produce a 1/200 scale Yamato. Trumpeter has contracts with other companies around the world for the same kit, thus the different boxings. These sorts of deals aren't unusual in the scale model industry.
Argh... I still have that 1/200 Bismark with all that Pontos brass to build first... Not to mention that $400 Tamiya Yamato in 1/350 scale...
Sounds like you already have plenty to keep you busy!
Ya-mato not Yama-to just for authenticy sake
Right: YAH-ma-to. That's what we're saying. Any mistake is due to our lack of practice, not lack of trying.
I bet this will find its way into a few old guy's stash closet.
We won't take that bet.
Can it be motorized and rc?
I imagine if you wanted to put the time and effort into engineering it, yes. Out of the box, it's designed as a static model.
Where too put it
Are you using your dining room table?
That's where I build them
Gawlee
I got ptsd from all that photo etch
15 frets is a lot of metal to bend. Thanks for watching!
"Ya - moto", not "Yama - to"!
Exactly. Yah-ma-to. We accept that we aren't perfect, but we do try.
You need to pronounce the name of the ship properly... Yamoto is pronounced Ya mot to
Hi John, we pronounced it as close as we could to the Japanese pronunciation, the Yamato's language of origin, where the accent would be on the first syllable. It may not be exact, but that isn't for lack of trying!
now if they would do Bismark
We haven't heard any rumors, but ... maybe?
Trumpeter made one goodness 8 - 10 years ago. I've had it in the stash for at lest 5 years and i got it used ( the guy had put together the bonus turret)
It’s YaMAHto
Not according to our Japanese-speaking resources nor Japanese-language television and movies.
It’s pronounced “Ya-Ma-Toe” not “Yama-toe”
Good to hear some one say it correctly
YAH-mah-to. Emphasis on the first syllable. Thanks for watching!
@@FineScaleModelermagazine Ouch! Hearing you guys constantly mispronounce Yamato is painful to hear. It's YA MA TO not YAMA TO. Yama is mountain in Japanese, Yamato was not named after a mountain.
At 830 bucks retail Gallery Models isn't intending on selling very many. I know I won't be blowing my money on it.
From all indications, pre-orders and post-release sales have been strong. Of course, time will tell what the market will bear.
Far out!... 1/200!
I’m 74…..I don’t have enough time left……
Correct pronunciation puts accent on the second syllable, not the first.
According to our findings, the emphasis on the second syllable is an Americanization of the name. What we've been told by Japanese speakers and can hear with close listening ourselves in Japanese-language movies and television, the accent is on the first syllable: YAH-mah-to. As one person explained it to us: It's like Yamaha; YAH-ma-ha, not yah-MAH-ha. We don't claim to be the experts on pronunciation of foreign words, but we do our research and try to pronounce non-English words correctly, despite our varied results. Thanks for watching!
Finescale modeller we actually got the 1/200 scale arii version direct from Japan via Amazon post free for £198 a few years ago .And it's currently unavailable on Amazon now.Boy did we get a bargain £198 and its massive with a load of extra brass etchings with it also unavailable now.Sorry we definitely won't be buying yours for that price.Also we live in Australia so have a direct link with Japan .That we supplied to our mate in the UK
That's cool, but it's not ours--it's the Gallery Models release of the new Trumpeter tool. Thanks for watching!
Throw in the Maiden shirt, and we will a call it a deal.
Our sample went to Harvey Low who is writing a feature story for the magazine. And no one is getting their hands on Tim's IM shirt.
ThiS can be RC。
If you wanted to take the time to convert it, probably.
Trumpeter model...
Yep. Trumpeter has a contract with Gallery Models (owned by Model Rectifier Corp. in the U.S.). It has contracts with brands in other parts of the world for the same model. Not unusual in the scale model industry.
The old 1/200 Nichimo kit was easier to build with fewer parts, and Artwox does a nice wooden deck for it. The kit is out of production but can be found some places for half the price of this one.
And for those who want to search it out, that's great. This kit is new, available, and brimming with detail. Thanks for watching!
@@FineScaleModelermagazine My pleasure. It was a great video.
All I have seen is close to the same price. Plus the detail is fuzzy as compared. Watched a video on construction of it (Nichimo kit)and the rear upper hull parts fit poorly. Have to spend a ton to get some photo etch and it is far less accurate.
Ridiculous pricing on this kit.