LEGO Battleship Yamato by Jun Brick

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Japanese LEGO craftsman Jun Brick is recreating the famous Japanese battleship Yamato in LEGO (the real WWII-era one, not the space battleship). He's documented his build-in-progress on his site, which in some ways may be more interesting in the final product, as you can see how much work must go into the superstructure infrastructure necessary to support such a large scale model. (It's basically a mini-fig scale replica, which must make it 15-20 feet long, at least.)

The Yamato was a nearly legendary bit of engineering and remains an important cultural artifact to the Japanese, something like the way Americans revere the USS Enterprise, our first nuclear carrier. Construction on the Yamato began seventy years ago; design work had begun three years earlier.

Artist's page [Geocities.jp via Hobby Blog]


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Beautiful work in LEGO.

Now do the Star Blazers one!

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Yes, I was so disappointed to sea it was the WW2 version. Where's the Wave Motion Gun?

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actually, if you poke around his page a bit... he did make the space battleship one as well.

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The Anime one used the WWII as its' structural base AFAIR. This remains very awesome regardless.

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It's not the job of superstructure to support anything, Joel. In a ship, the superstructure is everything above the deck.

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No shit, nex? I guess that makes sense if you actually parse the word. I guess what I was looking for was "infrastructure." Thanks!

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