Fig. 1: Manufacturer box art.

One of the four Garmillas space carrier models from the Yamato 2199 series. There are two other similar carriers to this one - the green "Balgray", and the blue "Schderg", both of which are more or less identical - other than the fighters they carry. There's also the combination battleship/carrier "Darold".

The difference between the carriers are:

• Balgray - green colour; carries DWG-109 Debake air-to-air fighters and DMB-87 Snuka dive bombers
• Lambea - purple colour; carries the DMB-87 Snuka dive bombers
• Schderg - blue colour; carries the FWG-97 Doshira torpedo bombers. The 'earliest' design in the series, and without the angled flight deck.

This is a big kit when complete - almost 16 inches long!

The kit includes the carrier, plus to-scale fighters to arrange on the light deck(s) (though at 1/1000 scale they are tiny!). Also included is a larger, non-scale version of one of the fighters to display alongside.

Fig. 2: Example of completed model.

Close up images of an example completed model:

Fig. 3: Example of completed carrier and to-scale fighters. Fig. 4: Example of completed carrier and to-scale fighters. Fig. 5: Example of completed carrier and to-scale fighters.

Example of the not-to-scale DMB-87 Snuka dive bomber:

Fig. 6: Example of completed Snuka dive bomber. Fig. 7: Example of completed Snuka dive bomber.

Fig. 8: Colour chart from mech9.com

• Sourced from: https://www.mech9.com/2024/02/bandai-11000-guipellion-class-lambea.html

The suggested paints for the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 / 2202 series of kits are from Gunze / GSI Creos / Mr Color range, which are hard to source in the UK. In addition, most of the original paint sets are bespoke to the line and are out of production. For the Schderg, the main recommended colours is YC24 from set CS888:

Fig. 9: OEM paint set CS888 Fig. 10: OEM colours Fig. 11: OEM colours

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