Building of huge hull - Yamato 1:200

[Highlander]

Hi all



I'll try to show how I am building hull of Yamato - Halinski '04 in 1:200 scale. This is my second attempt to build one, the first was not good, twisted and with colapsed plating then crushed by accident .That's all I remaining.



I've started off with gluing the frames on 1m long, 12 cm large of 2 mm cardboard strips (belts?) and cut it out.



For flat part of the bottom I've designed a... 'subplating' large piece of 2 mm cardboard. Before that I cut out special gaps in the frames.



To get non twisted hull I made something I call 'the drydock' It's made from the rest (relic?) of frames cardboard. The pictures shows it better, than my inexpert explanation.





Why it's done for? It's going to be an exellent support for futur steps of build. The framing fixed to my 'drydock' won't be twisted (warped).



The framing is not yet glued.

To be continued.

Cheers

Leszek.

[airbob]

Highlander,
Looks like you're doing a good job!.....just continue to keep weights on the glued parts of the hull while resting on a perfectly flat surface while she is drying...thats how I do it....but this forum has many other expert craftmen (not me!)...that may have other ways of doing it.....if you get the hull real straight and flat...you are well on the way to a really fine build....by the way this was the first lesson that I learned in card modeling while building the S.S. United States in 2000...had to rebuild it...and finally got it right on the forth build!!!...as my sainted dad always said..."experience is the best and dearest teacher"...Bob out

[Lex]

Halinski Yamato... Wow, takes more than courage to even start a project like this...

[mpakier]

What kind of glue are you using for laminating the frames?
I was reading somewhere that it is very important because
glues based of water can make the frames bigger (in ship
of this size even few millimeters).

Michal

[paulhbell]

I think this is one of the best looking ships that was ever built. Shame she didn't last long.

I have had a couple of plastic models of the Yamato and they were hard to build. Lot's of parts.

How long is the hull, I would like to have a go at building this. But I would convert the hull to radio control.

[Teamski]

Looking really good! Your superstructure looks beautiful. Keep up the great work!

-Ski

[barry]

Good thinking that man great way to get weighted without warping a piece of very clever engineering.

Look forward to seeing the build glad mines a flattop.

regards

[JHS]

Thank you. Wonderful images. Method very clear. Will follow with interest. Yes, the type of glue(s) you use would be of great help.

Here is a great YAMATO website:

http://watakan.world.coocan.jp/eng/yamato/index.html

[jnyoun]

Thanks for great information.

By the way, this may not be a question directly related with 'building'. Somehow, I am really wondering how you put MULTIPLE pictures in one posting. I tried to put image by something like this:
<img src="http:\\mywebsite.com\mypicture.jpg"></img>.

However, it didn't work. Can you also share with me how you did it?

Thanks

JN

[rickstef]

you need to use [img] [/img]
instead of the <> brackets

Rick

[jnyoun]

Rick,

Thanks for the help. Actually, I tried that way. However, the problem is that it just shows a LINK to image, not image itself. Here is an example when I used [IMG]http=.....[/IMG].




As you can see, it didn't show the picture itself. What I wanted was the 'picture' instead of 'link' as highlander did.

Do you have any idea?

By the way, I will remove this posting once I figured out how to do it. Please accept my apology if I am messing up this thread.

JN

[rickstef]

i think it has to do with some of the characters yahoo uses for images, like the ? mark and others like that

but that is the only way i can figure something like this is happening

Rick

[Beachead]

Yamoto looks like an expert job. Man, you have space for homeporting such a large model? I along with others really look forward to your progress, at whatever speed it happens to go. Good luck.

[Highlander]

Hi all

I was very busy this days, here are my latecomming answers.

mpakier wrote

What kind of glue are you using for laminating the frames?
I was reading somewhere that it is very important because
glues based of water can make the frames bigger (in ship
of this size even few millimeters).

For laminating the frames I'm using non water based glues:



It's chlorine-rubber (?) glue. To distribute the glue I'm using a brush. To get suitable density I add some cellulose thinner (solvent?).

jnyoun wrote

By the way, this may not be a question directly related with 'building'. Somehow, I am really wondering how you put MULTIPLE pictures in one posting. I tried to put image by something like this:
<img src="http:\\mywebsite.com\mypicture.jpg"></img>.

However, it didn't work. Can you also share with me how you did it?

I'm beginner in informtics and I found easy way to put MULTIPLE pictures. I upload my pictures to :

http://photobucket.com/

then left click at little square under the picture, next, down of the page left click at: Generate HTML and IMG code, then left click IMG clickable thumbnails for message boards at the code to copy. I put the code when posting by right click. I hope it's clear enough.

Continnuation of the build of Yamato comming soon.

Cheers

Leszek.

[JHS]

Thanks, Highlander!