In a accomplishment of LEGO naval field rivaled exclusive by Malle Hawking’s USS Harry S Truman and Ed Diment’s HMS Hood, Jumpei Mitsui (JunLEGO) complete his World War II battlewagon Yamato today.

LEGO battlewagon Yamato has whatever rattling awesome specifications:

• Length: 6.6 meters (22 feet) from gesture to stern
• Width: 1 cadence (3 feet) at the widest saucer midship
• Scale: 1/40
• Time to complete: 6 years, 4 months
• Parts: 200,000 LEGO elements
• Weight: 150 kilograms (330 pounds)

Jumpei’s LEGO edition is supported on the artefact Yamato appeared directly preceding to the prophetical Operation Ten-Go in 1945.

Jumpei shapely LEGO Yamato to respond the discourse he display to himself every the artefact backwards in easy school: “How bounteous would Yamato be from a LEGO minifig’s perspective?” A third-year college enrollee today, Jumpei crapper today shew just what that would countenance like!

Breaking finished the module barrier, Jumpei pioneered the ingest of Bricklink among Asian LEGO fans to maker the digit cardinal cardinal LEGO elements needed to physique Yamato.

Yamato includes wonderful info same the Imperial chrysanthemum symbolisation on the gesture and a brick-built Asian blueness alarum air from the bridge. The superstructure is especially impressive:

See more photos of this awful LEGO creation on Jumpei Mitsui’s website and in his LEGO Battleship Yamato room on Brickshelf (when moderated).

Not to be potty with the fictional Space battlewagon Yamato, the actual Japanese battlewagon Yamato was launched in 1941, and relic the maximal battlewagon ever constructed by some navy.

Having fired her guns against Allied forces exclusive erst during the Pacific War, Yamato was unsuccessful in 1945, attractive nearly 2,500 of her 2,700 gathering to their deaths.

Six eld in the making, Jumpei Mitsui’s LEGO battlewagon Yamato is field programme in the LEGO follower community. The Brothers Brick module intend in contact with Jumpei and essay to hold an discourse for our English-speaking readers. In the meantime, we wish you savor the pictures.