Yamato blog

Yamato -The Golden surfer

 

A few short weeks ago, someone in a Francophone forum (might be Canadian) gave some links to both my site and some Per Olav Lund dioramas -do you think I got a positive mention? nope I didn't! I guess that by seeing the first page of my site with all those dead guys,  people passed to something else. Oh never mind.
Truth is i suspended the work on that T-26 till the end of september. The reason? I am invited to Model in Action in Einhoven Nederlands so I thought I would bring something special.
That's it, a brand new waterlogged diorama with demented sea. The nicest thing is what i used as a base for that diorama. As I didin't want to use some unknown ship, I settled for maybe the best known and biggest battleship ever built -that is the Yamato.
 
Work in progress of course, I just began to detail the sea.
 
191 Yamato 1-35 diorama192 Yamato 1-35 diorama WIP193 Yamato 1-35 diorama194 Yamato 1-35 diorama
大和 - ゴールデン サーファー

So "you can't model the smoke, you can't model the spray, you can't model the smell" -or can you?.. at least the spray :)

This time the water is 95% done and there will be no more in progress shots of this diorama before I fire it up. There are still some parts behind the flower which look  a bit unconvincing. Otherwise I managed to make the flying foam with some special wool which is not cotton, but that's something I will explain later as it's my own version on a trick first given by modeleur extraordinaire Jim Baumann.

And thanks to MAK star Lincoln Wright for translating me the title of this diorama in Japanese!

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196 IJN Yamato 1/35 sea

197 IJN Yamato 1/35 sea

198 IJN Yamato 1/35 sea

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