What was it like to build the largest commercially-available model ever made for the Yamato saga? A 20-pound behemoth measuring over 50 inches long when completed? Go step by step through all 60 volumes and see it come together one piece at a time.
At last, time to get down to business and actually build this beast. And what a build it is! I photographed the entire process volume by volume in such a way that you could see what it was like, alternating between smooth seas and bumpy roads.
From Star Blazers/Yamato Fan Club magazine issue 11: Mecha Designer Junichiro Tamamori and Hachette Editorial Director Ken Sato discuss their collaboration on the unprecedented 1/350 Yamato and Andromeda Diecast Gimmick Models published by Hachette Collections Japan.
The 1/350 Yamato Diecast Gimmick Model is, so far, the largest and most complex commercially-available Yamato in history. In this series, we’ll go through it piece by piece and see what it takes to put it all together. Before embarking on this massive project, it’s necessary to lay some groundwork and get the big picture.
Star Blazers/Yamato Premium Fan Club magazine Vol. 8 featured a new conversation with Hirofumi Kishiyama, Yamato’s product developer at Bandai. He focused on fightercraft and gave us some more insight into the process of creating the products Yamato fans want.
Other than the chance to see more episodes, one of the things that fans looked forward to with each theatrical chapter of 2202 was a new round of products sold in movie theaters and online. Hundreds of items appeared in multiple categories. Here we collect all of them in one place.
The amount of ink and paper devoted to Yamato 2202 falls short of 2199, but what we do have as a result is more focused and more precious due to its comparative rarity. Here is the 2202 library as of July 2019.
