NUOTIE 1/1000 Japanese Battleship Yamato 1945 Diecast Model with Display Base

Product Overview

This 1:1000 model shows the Japanese battleship Yamato in her final April 1945 configuration: light-grey upperworks over a red-brown hull below the waterline, warm tan wooden decking, the towering pagoda mast, and nine 460 mm guns carried in three triple turrets. The bow main turrets rotate, and the stern flight deck for her floatplanes runs out behind the third turret. At this scale the model comes out to about 21 cm (8.3 in) long and sits on a light-blue display base with a "YAMATO---1945" plaque.

Key Features

• 1/1000 scale, about 21 cm (8.3 in) long and 2 cm (0.8 in) wide on the base
• Diecast metal hull in her 1945 fit: light-grey sides and superstructure, red-brown below the waterline, tan main deck
• Bow main turrets rotate; secondary and anti-aircraft batteries modelled across the deck
• Stern aircraft deck with floatplanes, pagoda mast and rangefinders
• Light-blue display base with a "YAMATO---1945" plaque

The Ship

Yamato was the largest battleship ever built: 263 metres and more than 70,000 tons, mounting 18.1-inch guns that out-ranged anything a rival could answer with. She served as flagship of the Combined Fleet through the middle years of the Pacific War, though her moment of decisive battle never really came — by 1945 the aircraft carrier had taken over the ocean. On 7 April 1945 she sortied north of Okinawa on a one-way mission and was sunk by waves of US carrier aircraft, taking over 2,400 of her crew with her. Her loss marked the end of the battleship era she was built to dominate.

On the Shelf

Her sister Battleship Musashi 1944 sits directly beside her in the same series on a matching base. For the other side of the story, the USS Missouri model is from the same 1/1000 run — the American battleship whose deck hosted the surrender ceremony five months after Yamato went down.

An Honest Note on Scale

A strict 1/1000 hull of Yamato's 263 metres would run just over 26 cm; this model comes out at 21 cm, slightly compact for the scale but consistent across the series. At 1/1000 she is a display piece rather than a loupe subject: the turret layout, deck lines and pagoda mast read clearly at arm's length, which is what carries the identity here. The hull is diecast metal with painted detailing. The masts and AA barrels are slender castings; dust with a soft brush rather than a cloth.