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Standalone pic for the historic yamato class from my redrawn Yamato class from Star Blazers, The reason i went ahead with even doing these is because i personally feel as if to understand Space Battleship Yamato, you have tp understand the historical context behind it's iconic design and namesake as well as to show how vastly larger the remake yamato is compared to the actual ship. Also the ships depicted are their as built appearances and milestone engagements, of which there is surprisingly few as they largely did nothing for most of the war.

In order as follows:

Image one:

A long overdue and much needed Skaiandestiny rendition of the two ships that comprise of the unmanned fleet as seen in the first episode of "Be Forever Yamato: REBEL 3199". The Official Yamato Mechanics dimensions for the Gladiator are actually a typo which copied the dimensions of the ajax, I discovered that the older 300 meter figure from early program books for chapter 1 of the anime to be the proper length as the turrets both ship classes used were properly scaled.

Image two:

Another long overdue Skaiandestiny style rendition of the original condition of the Kongous class ships introduced in the first inner planetary war. these designs coming from the program books for "The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202" recap movie with the middle design ultimately being the canon design used in that movie's prologue.

Image three:

Redux of Skaiandestincy's laboratory Aquarius using my Ginga/Musashi superstructure with the observation dome details gleaned from both screenshots and images of the Laboratory Aquarius variant from the 1/1000 Andromeda DX model kit.

As follows:

first image:

A complete and total redraw and expasion of Skaiandestiny's Yamato class drawings as they made a previous error i found out when measuring them for this drawing: that the 333 meter overall length is the length between the actual ships hull and th nozzle tip. the overhands from the differing bow shapes giving differing lengths as the actual length is from a dotted line from each of the preliminary designs by junichiro tamamori that terminates to a junction point above the wave motion gun muzzle and the bottom of the fairing that overhangs.

As for the color/paint schemes and liveries, is is entirely in AU territory and because i can't reist the temptation to have yamato painted in her "proper" historical colors and other irl naval coior scheme. another change i made ifor these schemes is coloring the cosmo radar arrays to made them more visible. Hinomaru nee on the hull is meant to show that she was specifically a product of the far east sector as the ship was originall intended to be an one of multuple evacuation ship built by each underground sector before the arrival of yurisha changed everything.

To explain each livery:

• 2199 original configuration: exactly based on the 1/10 yamato museum in kure. Cosmo Radar Arrays painted in the same color as the ones on the model post-april renovation.
• 2202 first refit is in the dark variant of JMSDF hull colors. the shift from IJN to JMSDF color schemes meant to show the globalized nature of the UNCF post-2199.
• Final Battle ver.: Darkest Sasebo grey color and a shift back to IJN colors as her parts were cannibalized from her sister ships and thus needed to be consistent. the coloring of the forward main turrets being a reference to musashi's camouflage during the battle of leyte gulf..
• 2205 third remodel: return to JMSDf colors, this time,. standard colors used on their ships to represent a new era for the Earth Federation and her standard service in the EFCF as a training vessel. Her having the same visible name and registry marks as ginga in this era.
• 2207: Participation Award Ceremony Livery: USN Measure 21 Camouflage. This to make this livery make sense and have a reason to exist given Yamato's use in Operation Defense Against Dezarium (Operation D.A.D). Her antifouling being Mare island 143 as a nod and reference to the fact that she is a creature who's home is comfortably in the pacific.

Musashi here is based on the original preliminary drawings of the Ginga with featured a different design and features actual portholes that stay consistently above the waterline. Me using this version to represent the enigmatic missing middle child implied to exist. Her livery uses standard Sasebo grey as a reference to the as-built configuration of her real life namesake.

As for Ginga:

• 2202 Formal Dress Lovery: USN Measure 21 and suing a late war variant of Navy Blue (5-NB) created due to shortages of certain ingredients and pigments for standard Navy Blue (5-N). Her antifouling is Norfolk 65N as a reference to the break in tradition as she was the third yamato class ship and yet they didn't name her "Musahshi".
• 2205/2207 Standard Operation Livery: JMSDF colors to also represent her being pressed into normal service by the EFCF.