Well, this is clearly trumped by 'Shoes link, but here's a guy who bought and restored one of the Eagles from the "Space: 1999" series: http://www.smallartworks.ca/Articles/Restoration/Restore1.html
I'll see your ride'em Graf Spee and raise you a 1/10 scale Yamato: http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=22608
Man. I'm glad I have relatively little model-making skill or money. And that I don't know where that Yamato is. I wonder how long they'd put you away if you broke in and modified it some night. Installed, say, a Wave Motion Gun and a few other things...
That Graf Spee is about the same size as many of the ship models from In Harm's Way. Big enough for "operators" to ride in and steer during the battle sequences.
It's in Japan, I think. It's my understanding that it was built for a movie about the glorious history of the ship.
This seems like a good thread to dust off the 1/6th scale Mercury rocket with Buzz Aldrin G.I. Joe as the astronaut pilot. Rocket Joe!
I've seen that one before, one of these days, after I win the lotto, I'm either building a 1/6th scale F-86 or one of those.
I do not believe this is correct. For the movie they built a 1:1 scale model of a large part of the ship. LINKY to site with pics of it. The model you linked to was IIRC an official model commissioned by the Japanese gov't recently to honor the Yamato and to bring it back into the public light.
^Okay, I'll buy dat. Yamato and Musashi completely ignored the Washington Treaty, and probably any other treaty. They remain the largest battleships with the largest guns ever built.
