I built the YAMATO | Pit Road 1/700 Yamato battleship Build + Review

I build Pit Road's 1/700 scale battleship Yamato and give it a historically inaccurate paintjob in order to recreate my childhood.
(Pls algorithm)

the musics:
Old World of Warships title theme
wii shop theme
Extra Fries · The Fly Guy Five

00:00 unboxing
1:33 assembly
4:23 deranged rant
4:50 back to assembly
6:22 speedrun
8:52 painting
13:39 weathering
15:29 putting everything together
16:45 rating the kit
17:37 battleship size comparison
18:17 epic submarine battle

[guzzler]

an actual funny scale modelling video? impossible

[Alloyman]

OMG! Completely lost my shit during your rant with the "Empty fucking boxes for your fucking submarine kits too!" Absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣

[MrGrumpyToast]

This is the model content i didnt know i needed but also exactly what i was asking for, you sir are a treasure please dont stop

[edwordwhy]

Yes Plasmo is the teacher, the master, the guy that makes it all look so damn easy to build em so perfect, but Boxman? Boxman's the shit, Boxman brings balance to the Youtube modeling videos. Thank you Boxman, from all of us, thank you.

[tankenjoyer]

"Sometimes building these little toy boats is all about what YOU wanna do. Don't you ever let those rivet counting friends tell you otherwise"

wise words

[SentientMattress]

“that was when Yamato and it’s squad got full boxed by new gen sweats”

“I am a level 10 sigma gyatt”

“40 zorglobs of grey with 5 zangoids of sea blue”

“EMPTY FUCKING BOXES FOR YOUR FUCKING SUB MODELS”

“Coating off camera like it’s a Minecraft Let’s Play”

“Attaching the ship’s Big Black Deck”

[fernandomarques]

5:50 Since I dont care that you don't care I'll explain to the benefit of anyone else what those are, they are called Paravanes, they're a mine sweeping equipment, you basically throw them into the water attached to your ship by a steel cable and tow them around, they fan out while under the water, hopefully their cables will cut any moored mine's anchor cable, so the mine will float to the surface where you can shoot it and destroy it, or slam into the mine destroying it.
I'm gonna be real about the photo-etch, I quit model ships because of it, went into model trains, started bending wire for grab irons and ladders and now I photo-etch my own parts because there's like two commercial pantographs that don't look like ass who are prototypical, so yeah there's no escape, I'm convinced photo-etch is just a modelers curse.
Love the commentary, subbed.

[c_d_modelshop]

now THIS Is how you add comedy to a serious modelkit video.

[padorupadoru]

very nice

NOW BUILD THE SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO

[andomitor]

The use of a low battery fire alarm beeping really brought this video together.

[twobyfour]

In a world where excellence is demanded, Boxman stands like a soft plastic Spartacus demanding realism, "I`m capillary action", "No, I`m capillary action". Plasmo`s long lost deviant brother.

[SquillagusNiggle]

If I may offer a little advice on hand-painting, look at how wargaming painters do it. It's not about perfect manual control or magical colour insight, it's a three-step process for each component: basetone, highlight, wash/filter. You tend to do basetone and highlight in a kind of single-pass which results in that kinda blocky look. For camo on tiny planes etc it's easier to just cut a camo shape out of masking tape and then stipple thinned paint until it looks right, makeup sponges or random bits of foam are good for this.

If you're painting a silver gun barrel or prop shaft, *don't paint it silver.* I know right? Paint it either gloss black if you want shiny, dark grey for realistic, dark brown for rusted to shit. Then you either drybrush or stipple a tiny tiny amount of unthinned metallic, I personally use a q-tip for this with a miniscule amount of paint. This is literally easier than brushwork and will get you a good result for no effort. Then just wash with a mix of dark brown and black, your existing panelliners will work. The brown/black mix is a wargamer's secret trick because it works on almost anything except bright fleshtones.

Seriously though subbed, awesome work <3

[henrydilmen]

Between this and the Bismarck build, those 4 days to build and paint have aged your voice quite nicely.

[StellarGryphon]

Honestly surprised youtube actually recommends me an interesting channel finally! Adding humor to the vidoes actually make them super engaging, and is a breath of fresh air compared to all the other modelling channels with their more professional presentation. Definitely will be waiting for more!

[Captain_Draco]

You lured me in with the Bismark build, and got my subscription from this video. Love the video style.

[wolfpack]

Finally! A modelling channel for the common man.

[tetrisgamer]

I’ve always thought that ship modellers were mad, thank you for proving me right

[glenchapman]

Just a little trivia. When built the Yamato did have a lot of empty deck space fore and aft, the reason? If you were standing out on the deck when those guns were fired they could strip the flesh of your arm from the air compression. Also what limited deck fittings she did have got blown over the side on a regular basis every time they had gunnery practice.

[-gg]

I built 2 Yamato battleships 1/200 scale. The first one only had the motors running. On my second one, i used compressed air and a BB loader for the first turret. I turned the front turret with a servo and fired one BB. Missed me by 2 feet. Later i added fiber optics for some port holes. All port, starboard, stern and forward lights worked with the radio for night sailing. I really miss that model.

[dixonqwerty]

4:44 "Empty fucking boxes for your submarines too" hahaha had to listen to that a few times BWAHAHAHAHAHA