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YAMATO Battleship Model

Yamato was the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet. She was the biggest battleship ever built, outweighing the biggest Allied battleships by more than 20 percent.

Even at this gigantic size, Yamato could reach top speed of 28 knots. This extraordinary performance had much to do with her bulbous bow, which jutted out 10-feet (3-meter) waves that cancels out other waves generated by the main part of the ship, greatly reduced drag at the front. To come up with this great design, Japanese engineers tested 50 different models.

Yamato's sides could survive 3,000-pound armor piercing projectiles like those from the U.S. Iowa's guns. At 23,000 tons, her steel armor weighed more than 30 percent of her total weight. Armor plates of unprecedented 25 inches (63cm) thick shielded the turrets of her main guns. 

yamato battleship model

Yamato's nine main guns were the largest to ever crown a warship. Each gun was 69 ft (21 meters) long, weighed 147 metric tons and was capable of firing high-explosive or armor-piercing shells. The guns fired shells 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter which weighed about a Honda Civic car. And these guns could dangerously strike at an unprecedented range of 25 miles (40 km.)  The nine guns were mounted on three turrets. Each of these turrets weighed more than an entire American Fletcher-class destroyer (3,000 tons versus 2,100 tons.)

yamato model

Yamato's secondary guns were also impressive. Her six inch guns - that is, guns firing shells six inches in diameter, had a range of 17 miles (27 kilometers). And her 24 five inch guns, mounted in 12 turrets, could destroy targets nine miles away. 

yamato battleship

In April 1945, with the US invasion of Okinawa, the Emperor demanded action from what was left of the Navy. This led Vice Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, and Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, Vice Admiral Seiichi Ito to scrape together all he could to sail against the Americans.

This meant the Yamato.

Her battle fleet was simply the 6,000-ton Agano-class light cruiser Yahagi and 8 destroyers. This was to be a one-way mission, fighting against a fifteen-hundred-ship American fleet that outnumbered it by a factor of at least 6:1. Ito knew it and he personally commanded the attack.

Dubbed “Operation Ten-Go” (Heaven One), the fleet started on 7 April directly towards Okinawa. There it was soon confronted by over 400 carrier-based planes on a fleet of 11 flattops. The escorts protected Yamato from submarine attacks, but no airplanes helped her on the air.

By 1200 the first aircraft appeared over Yamato. By 1400 the cruiser Yahagi sank along with half of the destroyers. American pilots concentrated their torpedoes below Yamato's waterline near her bow and stern where her armor was thinnest. And the attacks were on just one side of the hull. By 1420, Yamato's rudder shot away, her superstructure ablaze.

Yamato put up a tremendous battle but she was not a match against nearly four hundred attack planes all alone. The battle was hopeless but she fought valiantly. Yamato took 12 bomb and seven torpedo hits within two hours of battle. Her 1,000 watertight compartments couldn't save her. She has suffered more than 11 torpedo hits and six bomb hits. At 1423, one of the two bow magazines detonated in a tremendous explosion. A fire raging in the battleship's aft secondary magazine caused tons of ammunition to ignite simultaneously, producing the blasts that tore the ship in half. These blasts were the largest ever to occur at sea—over 3 miles high—was seen 180 miles away on Kyushu.

2,747 men, including Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō, the fleet commander— went down with Yamato. That was more than the loss by the US Navy in all of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The sinking of Yamato ended the era of battleships. Aircraft carriers became king of the seas afterwards. 

This primarily wood Yamato battleship model has the following qualities:

- Correct gray color for Imperial Japanese Navy in WW2.

- Beautiful plank deck, not bright yellow.

- Tough appearance like a real war menace. This is artwork that many consider harder than the task of building the model itself.

30" long 9" tall x 6.5" wide  $2,790 shipping and insurance in the USA is included. Other countries, $300 flat rate. This model is in stock and can be shipped within three business days.

53" long x 14 tall x 9 wide $8,540 shipping and insurance in the USA is included. Other countries, $600 flat rate.  This model is built per commission only. We require only a small deposit to start the process, not full amount, not even half. The remaining balance won't be due until the model is completed, in several months.

Don't be fooled by some wrong Yamato models proliferating out there. They have very wrong hull shape and color (Japanese battleships color is different than American), bad superstructure, cheap deck, simplistic guns, erroneous railing, 'interesting' air plane... They seem to have come from a single export manufacturer who freely claims their products "museum quality."

Learn more about battleship Yamato here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato