Subject: SMML VOL 2913 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:16:45 +1000 The Ship Modelling Mailing List (SMML) is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http//sandlehobbies.com For infomation on how to Post to SMML and Unsubscribe from SMML http//smmlonline.com/aboutsmml/rules.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1 Re Yamato movie 2 Re-Yamato Movie 3 Battle of Tsunima 4 Yamato film set 5 Yamato movie 6 Re Yamato Movie 7 Re Yamato movie 8 Re Yamato Movie 9 Shackleton's ship "Endurance" plans wanted ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From "Mitsuaki Kubota" Subject Re Yamato movie Hi Roger, YAMATO set is built for movie entitled "Otoko-tachi no Yamato". Literal translation of this Japanese title to English should be "Yamato of the men", but I think "The men who fought onboard Yamato" would be more appropriate. This movie is based on non-fiction novel written by Ms. Jun Henmi. It will appear Japanese movie theater this December. At this time, I'm sorry I don't know the possibility of going to theater abroad of Japan or English version DVD. Below is link to official site of the movie. http//www.yamato-movie.jp/ This movie set was built at Onomichi City, Hiroshima prefecture of Japan. The filming on the set was already finished, and now this huge set is used for attraction for tourist. Movie set will be opened till March of next year. Although, this set doesn't show entire appearance of the battleship, but details are fairly good. http//www.ononavi.jp/fan/yamato.html Finally, below is link to movie set detail, taken by captain of JMSDF who assisting this movie. http//homepage1.nifty.com/watakan/yamato/special/otoko_yamato/index.html Hope these helps Regards, Mitsuaki ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From "JAMES HATHAWAY" Subject Re-Yamato Movie A friend in Japan sent me this link to the website for the film, I am looking forward to seeing it! http//www.yamato-movie.jp/making.html Jim Hathaway ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From Kelvin Mok Subject Battle of Tsunima As there is quite a following on IJN ship models this article will be of interest http//www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/GH16Dh02.html Echoes of Tsushima By Ronan Thomas In 2005, East Asian regional strategy is once again a hot topic for policy makers, diplomats and journalists. As China begins to reassert itself regionally and as its economy revives to challenge conceptions of its place in the world, Japan, Russia, Korea (North and South) and the United States are busy reassessing their relative geostrategic and military positions in the region. For the historian, this rivalry finds a particular echo. One hundred years ago, as the Russo-Japanese war raged, the first major naval engagement of the 20th century took place in the Korea/Japan straits - the Battle of Tsushima of May 27-28th, 1905. In this battle, the Russian Baltic Fleet under Admiral Rozhestventsky was destroyed by an Imperial Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo, rewriting naval strategy of the period. With the Russian defeat, the Russo-Japanese war ended decisively in Japan's favor, Tsarist Russia turned inwards to meet growing revolutionary pressures and her naval aspirations in the Far East were extinguished for a generation. Critically, Japanese regional naval confidence was established for the next 40 years. Japan went on to colonize Korea in 1910 - without international opposition - and victory at Tsushima underwrote Japan's strategic thinking in the years leading up to its bid for Asian regional dominance from 1937 and the fatal attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Even today, the facts of the battle are extraordinary. A Tsarist battle fleet comprising 40 aging warships and other vessels sailed 18,000 miles around the world from the Baltic to the Korea/Japan straits, dogged by poor logistics and morale, inadequate sea repairs in warm waters and more importantly lack of self belief. Russia embarked on this hazardous course as a last resort following the comprehensive defeat of its Pacific Fleet by Japan at Shantung (Yellow Sea) in August 1904. As the only ships available to Russia, they represented the last hope of set-piece victory against Japan. Losing on land, Russia's military leaders hoped that victory at sea would turn the tide. In the event, both ships and crews were to prove not good enough - Russian naval leadership was poor and gunnery tactics inferior. (more) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From "david harris" Subject Yamato film set I posted something about this a few months ago during a discussion on large scale Yamato models. Unfortunately, I cannot find the link that I gave at the time, but these two give some information on the film. http//home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=184081 http//www.twitchfilm.net/archives/001662.html Regards. David UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From ddamian@skrzynka.pl Subject Yamato movie Hi, Here you have 110 model http//album.nikon-image.com/nk/NK_AlbumPage.asp?un=97313&key=555537&m=0 and here 11 plan set... http//www.oshipee.com/omami/e-photo-yamatomovie-set.htm and trailer -) http//www.toei.co.jp/meta/yamato/YAMATO-1500.asx Damian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From mflake@airmail.net Subject Re Yamato Movie Over on the Internet Movie Data Base (imdb.com) there is a listing for "Otoko-tachi no Yamato," a 'war genre movie' set for release in Japan on December 17, 2005. There's not a whole lot of information besides a listing of cast and crew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From KenLMaster@aol.com Subject Re Yamato movie The movie "Otokotachi no Yamato" will be released in Japan December, 2005 See pictures of the set at http//www.oshipee.com/omami/e-frame-photo.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From CokerRE@aol.com Subject Re Yamato Movie Back in the late 1970s or perhaps the early 1980s a Japanese motion picture studio produced a feature film on the Japanese side of the Pacific War titled "The Grand Fleet". Do not confuse it with the Royal Navy in World War I. I first heard about this film when I saw photos of the 1/20 scale model of the Battleship Yamato that had been constructed for the set in the Japanese magazine Ships of the World--probably the best magazine in the world on contemporary ship news and history. Thanks to a pen pal in Japan I was able to obtain a video of the film and it was quite spectacular, all in color with real actors, but alas the language was Japanese so you could only assume what was discussed in the dialog. The film opened with a remarkable sequence from Togo's victory at Tushima using spectacular models showing the action. After that it went through a sequence much like Tora, Tora, Tora probably explaining the Japanese decision to go to war and the planning of the Pearl Harbor attack. The battle scenes were pretty good from Pearl Harbor, to Midway, to the Philippine Sea and Leyte. By that time in the film the constant sinking and destruction of Japanese ships was tiring, but then came the Yamato's last sortie which probably ate up 10 minutes of the film and was quite remarkable using the 1/20 model which may have been destroyed in the end. It was some of the best naval footage that I have seen using ship models on a par with the model scenes in Tora, Tora, Tora and much better than In Harms Way and some other Hollywood productions. Considering the use of aircraft and anti-aircraft guns on the model it was even more remarkable in its effects. Last year someone posted on e-Bay a flyer from this film and it even had a cutaway of the Yamato but was somewhat crude compared to those circulating from Japanese Naval sources. Perhaps someday soon someone will take the motion picture productions using ship models and compile them into one video for us ship model lovers to view all at once rather than having to search through multiple films. PC Coker/Charleston ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) From "thor" Subject Shackleton's ship "Endurance" plans wanted Howdy everyone, I would like to add the "Endurance" to my collection of plans of ships to build in the future. I have been unable to locate a source for any plans, if anyone is able to help I would be most appreciative. INFO The Endurance - Barquentine / 1 funnel, 3 masts / L,B, 144' x 25' - 43.9m x 7.5m / 300 tons / Hull wooden / Compliment 28 / Engine steam 350 hp, 1 screw, 10.2 kts / Built Framnaes Mek, Verstad, Sandefjord, Norway 1912. Built of planks of oak and Norwegian fir up to two and one half feet thick, sheathed in greenheart. Equipped with both sail and coal-fired steam engine. Her original name was Polaris which Shackleton renamed Endurance after his family motto Fortitudine Vincimus - "by endurance we conquer." Thor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the SMML site for the List Rules, Reviews, Articles, Backissues, Member's models & Reference Pictures at http//smmlonline.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume