Wooden Japanese Battleship Yamato

by Woody Joe

Scale

1:250

Construction

Plank-on-Bulkhead

Status

Available

Prototype ship: Yamato

Advanced (skill level 4) wooden kit with a box-structure hull built from laser-cut plywood bulkheads/plates, making hull assembly accessible even for less experienced builders. Superstructure, turrets and bridge details are reproduced using die-cast parts, soft metal parts and photo-etched brass; kit totals 54 wooden part types and 130 metal part types (1,247 parts total) with an estimated build time around 130-180 hours and a finished length of about 1062mm.