IJN Yamato in 1/200 Scale (New Tool)

[Uncarina]

Gallery Models will be releasing a new tool IJN Yamato in 1/200 scale: https://www.megahobby.com/products/yamato-japanese-navy-battleship-new-tool-1-200-gallery-models.html

 

Cheers,  Tom

Edited April 26, 2022 by Uncarina

[Grant_T]

Wow. This is right up my alley. What are Gallery models like? Never heard of them.

[LSP_K2]

2 hours ago, Grant_T said:

Wow. This is right up my alley. What are Gallery models like? Never heard of them.

 

Gallery Models are the ones that just recently released the 1:16 StuG IIIG. From what I've seen, it looks pretty sweet too.

[LSP_K2]

I need more money.

[Dave Williams]

I think Gallery Models is one of the Trumpeter offshoots like I Love Kit and Merit, or at least Trumpeter does the molding and instructions.

[Zola25]

Sweet... 

[dodgem37]

At 1/200, it seems to me they could have done this in 1/144.  Anyway.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

[Uncarina]

My pleasure Maru! I sold my Nichimo kit years ago with the Gold Medal Models photoetch set. Both were impressive, but I’ll be curious to see what this one looks like.

 

Cheers,  Tom

[Iain]

5 hours ago, dodgem37 said:

At 1/200, it seems to me they could have done this in 1/144.  Anyway.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

 

With a growing 'fleet' of similar subjects in 1:200 it makes sense I think...

 

Still a very large and impressive thing in that scale!

 

Iain

[Zola25]

Do Gallery Models have a website? - Would like to see more...

 

[Zola25]

16 minutes ago, Iain said:

 

With a growing 'fleet' of similar subjects in 1:200 it makes sense I think...

 

Still a very large and impressive thing in that scale!

 

Iain

Agreed - I think 1/200 is the right scale for this. I honestly never thought we would see a model of a japanese subject coming out of China. They still seem to have an awful lot of historic "bad blood" between them.

 

Now we just need a modern US Carrier in 1/200  - I would clear shelfspace for that! (or buy a bigger house )

[scvrobeson]

11 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

I think Gallery Models is one of the Trumpeter offshoots

 

Like 99% sure that they are. I think they even reboxed some of the earlier Trumpeter ship kits.

 

 

Matt 

[D.B. Andrus]

12 hours ago, LSP_K2 said:

I need more money.

 

+1

[Finn]

Same kit, different label, lower price:

 

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10875538

 

Jari

[cbk57]

I had thought Fujimi was going to do something as they released a lot of the super structure and gun turrets in 1/200, I don't know if these are plant on replacements for the Nikimo kit or what the intent was.  I just thought they were doing these stand alone mini kits to subsidize the big project that would ultimately come out but it seems they just stopped.