![]() ![]() Originally a secret weapon that was not even announced to the Japanese public, undoubtedly thousand of pictures of her were destroyed by the Japanese military immediately prior to their surrender, with not one official photo surviving. Of all warships, the Yamato was probably the least documented. The kit has not, however, stood up well to the test of time. ![]() At its release, it was considered to have set new standards for detail and authenticity and was immediately popular with model makers. Originally released in about 1982, the kit helped to popularize 1/350 as a standard scale for ship kits and has continuously been one of the best-selling ship models since that time. Of these kits, perhaps the most popular is the Tamiya 1/350 kit, available in either an April, 1945 Yamato, or October, 1944 Musashi version. ![]() This does not even include paper models, made-to-order displays, museum ships of up to 1/10 scale, and even Lego-style sets of blocks that build into oddly jagged, pixilated versions of the world's largest battleship. Well over 130 kits of Yamato, sister ship Musashi and carrier conversion Shinano have been produced to date, in scales ranging all the way from 1/1200 to 1/200. Of all the plastic injection models released over the last fifty years, few subjects have had as much popularity or captured the popular imagination of model makers as has the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato. ![]()
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