Yamato then and now

I can never seem to leave my 3D stuff alone... It's becoming a habit for me to mess with details even on something that may have considered a success and a completed model not long ago.

Here I have taken what I've learned whilst making my tanks and applying them to my Yamato model in an effort to make up for any faults that I found difficult to deal with back while I was learning how to 3D with SketchUp.

For starters the improvements done to the icon are as follows:

Deeper color scheme that is more accurate with not only the original series but the live action movie, the rebirth anime, and the most successful 2199 retelling of the story.

A new more accurate Captain's Quarters / Crow's nest.

A more substantial bridge tower neck to support the flight deck, and crow's nest that wouldn't look like it would snap in half from being sneezed at

A total redo for the atmospheric flight engines.

A total make-over for the iconic Wave Motion Gun - Hado ho -  that now consists of a complex triangulated component that blends with the armored iris better than being a simple straight extrusion that was scaled and tapered nearest the iris.

Less noticeable are the improvements to the anti-aircraft batteries.

And finally another major improvement over the original was a nearly full rescaling of the "Shock Cannon" turrets. The originals were slightly too large for the deck mounts and in my own defense I had no clue they were over-sized when I made them, but now with more experience working in  3D, that subtle fact became more and more noticed by me the more I worked to improve this model!  Only the gun tubes have remained unchanged, still featuring the iconic 18-inch or 460mm bore that was the heart of Yamato's historic and sci-fi punch besides the aforementioned Hado-ho... Everything else about the Shock Turrets were scaled own and now when zoomed out to a moderate distance, the overall appearance of the Yamato looks more proportioned.

Depending if I can find the time to, I have plans to make a replica of the 2199 variant of Yamato, as well as perhaps the live action movie variant as well, but this hinges on whether I can grow further as a sketchup artist because either the live action or the 2199 Yamato are more complex than my simple original series Leiji Matsumoto variant... From another old work in progress submission fav.me/d3d6dhv you can see that my interpretation of Leiji's  original was a simple extrusion based model, starting at the bow and working my way back to the stern, but 2199 and the live-action Yamato have more compound curves to the hull that simple extrusions cannot easily replicate, even with the help of extensions.. so to tackle the live-action and 2199, I need to figure out how to make templates and cross-sections to construct the hull around, and with either ship, it looks like construction will be a tedious process of hand stitching lines.. something that I avoid like the plague!

Anyhow that's Yamato, then and now, and I hope you guys enjoy this?

Incidentally the Warehouse is being a total derp right now for me, and I can only submit models via FireFox and the alternate front-side interface similar to what dA's Stash uses.. drag and drop.. name it.. add descriptions.. post it and share it.. but when I do that, I need to rely on whoever collected my models to do this every time I update something.. and that's a pain in the whut whut... So I may only post my updated Yamato once I'm satisfied with it and I don't plan to make any further updates to it... but by then I'm probably working on the 2199 and live-action versions. XDDD Anyhow yeah.. this updated Yamato model by me will be posted to the warehouse in due time, just... not right now.

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Uchuu senkan Yamato belongs to Leiji Matsumoto and Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Original and updated in progress models of Yamato by moi
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