Built it almost 20 years ago as an R/C model. If I had it to do all over again. I'd get the "Anatomy of the Ship" book "The Battleship Yamato" by Janusz Skulski before I cut the first part off the spru. Secondly, I'd ditch the kit railing and get the photo etched set available in 1/200th for railing, ladders and doors at minimum (there may be PE for the catapults and other details available by now. If you build it as an R/C model, it will be out of scale but you may want to increase the area of the rudder as the ship will not turn inside the diameter of a 16' wide pool with the stock rudder. You might want to go direct drive or get different gears for the prop shafts because the kit gear train is very noisy. Run it on a pond or lake and it is indeed impressive. Good luck with your kit and static or R/C it is truly impressive.