Yamato

Box Open

Massive box.
Hard to tell from the photos, but this is pretty much the largest box size among all Gunpla. The box length is roughly 90cm.
Both the front and back illustrations are excellent.

Size comparison between large boxes.
It may be thinner than the HGUC Den-chan box, but in terms of length it's in a league of its own..;
The height is smaller than the 1/24 HY2M First, but thanks to the length, the overall volume still goes to Yamato!

Side box art

Box Open

View from above.

As you'd expect from a big box, it comes with a carry handle.
The box weighs a total of 7kg.. it's pretty heavy.

Opening the box~

The white cardboard pieces are padding to keep the differently-sized boxes from shifting around during shipping.

Pull everything out and this is what you get.

Opening boxes A and B. Packed full of parts.

There are only a few large runners in there, so it looks a bit sparse somehow.

Open the smallest box and out come the control units.
Packed full of various motors and gears.

Opening the middle miscellaneous box. They've carefully covered everything with paper to keep things from falling out.
It contains some power supply components, cables, metal parts, and a speaker.

The last of the three small boxes — the remote control box.
The remote is packed in like this.

So the contents of each of those three differently-sized boxes are as shown above.

There are 4 manuals in total, with two of them separately wrapped in plastic bags.

There are 4 in total: a color introduction manual, a black-and-white assembly manual, a runner layout diagram, and an operation guide~

And one more thing.. there's a large sheet of paper the size of the box, and inside it is a plastic poster.

It's the same as the box art. The illustration is really elegant and stunning.

Flip it over and you'll find it's printed on both sides.

Absolutely massive runners.. these are for the stand section, and they're seriously heavy. Around 1kg maybe?

Specs engraved on the battery cover

Again~ parts with incredible bulk. But the hull isn't one solid piece —
Instead, the armor is divided up into sections like this.

The sheer bulk..

Box Open

Slide molds everywhere

The part that impressed me most in terms of detail..
The bridge (cockpit) section is barely the size of a fingernail, yet every single seat is individually molded.

There's one oddly-shaped white runner..
It contains each of the characters as tiny 1/350 scale figures.
The thoughtful touch of having each figure's name printed right on the runner!
The figure in the center of the photo is the Captain himself.. in that pose where he's lying in bed sick;

Parts for the smaller gun barrels..

Details of the carrier aircraft like the Cosmo Zero and Black Tiger. Very finely done.

Some parts have undergates.
The photo above shows the canopy section near the bridge. Very few parts actually use this though ;;

The main gun barrels are metal :-) Truly a luxury kit.
But.. these metal barrels are the one thing that's made in China..

Photo-etched parts

The detail is very fine.

Looking a bit closer, yep — very finely detailed.

The gangway stairs for boarding the ship are included as photo-etched parts.

Foam stickers and foil stickers. Used for securing wiring and reflecting light.

Stickers for the stand. At first glance they look like ordinary foil stickers,
but they're actually aluminum metal stickers. Be careful — they can cut your fingers easily.

The anchor chain section is, naturally, an actual real metal chain.

Control unit

Motorized unit for the small gun turrets

Front motorized unit for the main guns

Rear motorized unit for the main guns

Infrared sensor section.

The speaker. First time I've ever built a plastic model that comes with a speaker.. ^^;

There are 8 LEDs in total.
One large orange, two small orange, one large red, one small red,
Two small yellow, and one large clear..