Phase one of my importing and conversion of my SketchUp model of Uchuu Senkan Yamato over to a Blender file.

I had to do this in three steps, as this was such a large complex file that Blender kept getting critical RAM warning during import, so I broke down my skp file into three parts, the upper tower, the deck with turrets, and the hull, which I've already appended the tower to the decks so that leaves cleaning up this portion of duplicate faces and verts, and then appending the hull once that's cleaned separately.

This was the only way I could port over my skp model into Blender as my laptop has the minimum 8gigs of RAM to run, and since SKP files are a hot mess of duplicate verticies as mentioned in another posting, that Blender sometimes hangs from RAM shortage while importing the DAE format which is the legacy freeware sketchup's only exporting option.

Google and later Trimble really made sure the freeware version of sketchup was short lived, and that exporting models would be difficult A.F. so users would be forced to be drawn into the subscription based SketchUp-Pro app, since that's the only version of the stand-alone app for desktop and laptop PCs with more import - export options.

Luckily Blender 2 to current 5 can import DAE formats like a Boss, so I'm porting over whatever I can as quickly as possible to archive in .blend format on my archive drive, so I don't loose anything!

This incidentally is more Yamato themed stuff from me to remember Akira Leiji Matsumoto's Uchuu Senkan Yamato with.

I'll be getting back to that hand drawing of Mori soon enough, after I patch together Yams here in full.

Creds of course: Yamato by Akira Leiji Matsumoto and Yoshinobu Nishizaki, though really it's all about Leiji.
3D replica of the icon by  NezumiYuki