Subject: Fwd: rest of the Yamato shots
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 08:51:00 EST
From: TimDike@aol.com
To: cadman@modelwarships.com

Timothy Dike
Webmaster and Editor
ModelWarships.com

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Subject: Re: rest of the Yamato shots
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:52:35 -0800
From: "Don Macdonald" <donrcships@earthlink.net>
To: "Cadman" <cadmanSPAMmeNOT@modelwarships.com>

  OK Tim here is the rest of the pictures of  yamato that the way it look
on my work bench befor I sent it out ,

This the battle ship Yamato . IT started out as an 1/250  but ended up as  a 1/200
after I went into it. It took about a month to do this.

This ship was at about 3 ft  with the beam of 5 inches  I did not
know at the time there was a larger one then the 1/250 scale untill I
started doing some reseach. I Could not aford what I wanted, so the
next best thing to do was work with what I had as I picked this one up at one of
the swap meets.

It had the Plastic decks with very little deteale single mortor with gear
drive ( very nosie) no added goodys it  was at 3 ft not 4 ft ,  OK  time to
do some of my or Dons custom work .
  The first thing I did I pick up another 1/250 compleat kit from pacific
front hobbies
   The next thing to do was look up a set of plans for the  1/200 not a
problem at all for me .since a buddy of mind had a set handly  ,
    Then it was time to figure out whear to cut and start and what to use
for exspanding , I knew they did  it with real ship so there was no reason
I could not do it with a model .
      I Then figure it out  whear to cut ,  Then took the cut and off i
went to build a new custom 1/200 ship that I could not a ford.I added new
ribs,  added a foot then resided it and glass it .  you can not tell whear
it was cut for it  looks good inside as well ,
     I added new ribs.  a new copleat deck and use  wood instead of the
plactice.  Compleaty  rebuilt the main guns , But did some changing to this
one I set up the turriets to turn back and forth, Then added a new working
radar to rotate as well as a compleat of set of lights inside and out ,
Then added about an inche and redid the Supperstructo ,  Then I compleatly
redone the motor set up by addind  four small 12 volt  motors and got rid
of the single gear box  Works much better .
    Added a lot more detale on the ship and a crew ,   did alot of other
little goodys ,  So now I have a one of kind 1/200 custom scale yamato ,
       Here is the process it went through and NO I have no sines of
leakage .  Even have a picture of my sub stocking it for  a fight .
    The Beam did not change and it work out just as good and did a compleat
paint job , Power is a 12 volt jell cell , Manual speed controll  , As well
as a 4 channel radio ,
      That is it for a Rustbucket Conversion ,   Thanks Tim