Kit Review
Straight build
Size comparison with a cigarette pack
The nose section. Seems to have the best detail of all...
The central turret section. There's a gunner built into the turret as well.
Detailed interior of the turret. Everything you'd expect is in there.
The molding on the wing section. The deepest molding of any kit in the EX Yamato series.
Quite intricate thruster detail.
Loaded up with missiles all over the place.
Underside view
Underside section photos
The two-seat cockpit detail.
Like the Black Tiger, this kit also covers both single-seat and two-seat configurations.
It actually includes two completely separate nose sections.
The single-seat version has no upper turret and only one antenna under the nose, so it looks like they just went ahead and included both as a bonus.
Single-seat cockpit detail.
There's some kind of structure in there instead of a seat.
The single-seat nose.
Looks nice and clean without the upper turret.
The single-seat version in flight pose.
With the single-seat nose, you can also recreate the braking flaps.
In the end, trying to cover both single- and two-seat configurations...
...plus recreating the turret controls for the two-seater is what led to that many pilot and seat parts.
The Cosmo Tiger II also comes with a good number of missiles...
On the underside of the fuselage, you have to choose one of two missile types to attach.
The cockpit hatch isn't an open/close mechanism — you have to choose open or closed during assembly and fix it in place with glue beforehand.
Interior cockpit detail.
The detail inside the landing gear bay is great too.
Underside view with landing gear attached.
Landing gear detail.
Landed on the ground.
With the included pilot figures.
This kit also comes with quite a lot of waterslide decals — slap them all on and it'll look really sharp.
(Painted first, of course... ^^;)
All three of the Yamato EX series kits together.
The Cosmo Tiger II, being the last one released, definitely has the best quality of the bunch.