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Yamato Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Japanese battleship Yamato, plotted pen to paper, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 × 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink, one pass at a time. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.
The plan of the Yamato exists as a file, everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy someone can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, and under what serial number.
The Yamato was laid down at Kure Naval Arsenal in 1937 and commissioned in December 1941, the lead ship of the two-vessel Yamato class — the heaviest and most heavily armed battleships ever built. Nine 46 cm main guns, the largest ever mounted on a warship, sat behind 650 mm of turret-face armor, while four steam turbines drove 150,000 shaft horsepower to a top speed of 27 knots. At 65,027 tonnes standard displacement and 263 m long, she outweighed every other battleship of the war by a wide margin. On April 7, 1945, during Operation Ten-Go — a one-way sortie toward Okinawa without air cover — Yamato was struck by at least 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs from American carrier aircraft and sank in the East China Sea, taking roughly 3,055 of her 3,332 crew down with her, including the fleet commander. This blueprint documents the ship's profile and deck plan as a historical engineering record.
At a Glance
- ◆9x 46cm main guns — largest ever on a warship
- ◆65,027 t standard displacement
- ◆27 kn top speed, 150,000 shp
- ◆Commissioned December 1941
- ◆Sunk April 7, 1945, Operation Ten-Go
- ◆~3,055 of 3,332 crew lost
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PLOT TIME: ~1–1.5 h of machine drawing time
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does, what a person does
The robot
- ◆runs the file
- ◆draws
- ◆lays down ink
- ◆repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆picks the vessel
- ◆designs the linework
- ◆decides which lines disappear
- ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
- ◆watches the hours
- ◆signs, numbers, packs
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“This is the first piece in the catalogue offered in a single orientation only — the ship's full length is the whole story here, and compressing it into a vertical sheet would have meant losing the one thing that makes Yamato recognizable at a glance: how long and low she sits in the water.”
Open production, no duplicates
Every Yamato piece is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down differently each pass, ink density shifts, and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.
PERFECTLY imperfect.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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This piece is a historical technical illustration of the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, produced for documentary and educational purposes. It carries no political or ideological association; it depicts a historical vessel as an engineering record.