Japanese Battleship YAMATO

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Japanese Battleship YAMATO

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Post by SS-Researcher » 29 Jul 2003, 11:05

Hi!
I hope anyone of you can help me. You know that there is lots of high quality art prints detailing American, British and German air and naval warfare. What I want to know is, if there are any nice prints (or posters showing these prints as I don't have the money to spend several hundred $$ for one print :( ) of the Japanese Battleship Yamato (大和)

Any help appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 06:37

artwork of an unknown artist, battleship Yamato
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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 06:42

or you can visit here:

http://membres.lycos.fr/jsbz/hj/zlj/1.htm

there're many paint of Japanese artist T. Yuki. Including Yamato and Musashi.

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IJN Yamato



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IJN Musashi

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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 07:00

The two paints above are right reserved, but a Chinese guy scanned and posted them on the internet. Maybe I should provide its url only. But I think there should not be any trouble if they were not used in commercial purpose. If you can't see the pictures, visit that lycos member website directly.

Another Japanese marine artist, Nokami Hayao, had drawed many paints of naval ships and ocean liners too. But his work are particularly on liners and merchant ships. The best art works of former Imperial Japanese Navy are Yuki's. You can search their books on Amazon.

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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 07:06

BTW, if you are interested on the Yamato class battleship, you should find two splendid books about them. The ISBN numbers are:

ISBN4-05-601261-X Battleship Yamato class
ISBN4-05-601919-3 Battleship Yamato class vol II

published by Gakken Press

Here I post the cover and back cover of them.

the cover of "Battleship Yamato class"
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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 07:14

This book contains many useful info, such as the design work, the plan from A-140 to A-140F6, photographs of the detailed model, rare pictures on board, introduction of the 460mm main gun and fire ctrl system, internal sketch of captain's room, the captains of Yamato and Musashi, etc. The price is 1553 Yen, or 1800 Yen with tex.
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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 07:22

The second book is even more interesting than the first one. It contains an original blue print of the deck plan, many rare details of Yamato, useful for model builders, and the test report of US Navy about a 26-inch armor plate which was intended for use in IJN battleship Shinano. And it has some fine CG works of IJN Yamato, it's final status in the heavy sea.
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Post by Windward » 01 Aug 2003, 07:27

back cover of the second book. its price is 1800 Yen, tex not included.

and I mus point out that both the books are wrote in Japanese and it means a reader except Japanese and Chinese would be difficult to read them. but if you bought these books only for their pictures, it's also very worthy.
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