Yamato battleship (Minic ships, second issue)
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A 1:1200 second-issue model of the WW2 Japanese Battleship Yamato, part of the Tri-Ang Minic range produced between 1959 and 1964.
The heavily-armoured and -gunned Yamato and her sister-ship the Musashi were the largest battleships ever built, and the Yamato was a significant symbol of national pride, symbolising the power of Imperial Japan. Both were destroyed in WW2.
It was released as part of the 'Fightng Ships' line up along with the:
Culture and media
The Yamato still occupies a significant place in the Japanese psyche. The Yamato Museum in Japan has a one-tenth scale model of the battleship, and in the cult 1974 Japanese science-fiction anime series "Space Battleship Yamato", the lost wreck of the Yamato is retro-fitted with a warp drive to convert it into a spaceship used to defend the Earth.
