ZM Ki-100 news

[Artful69]

 

My A-3's were delivered yesterday and in the box was this VHF magazine ...

 

The photo I'm trying to add here () ... is for the Ki-100 release ... I can't read Japanese but is seems that the preorder period will be 26 June - 26 July ??

 

 

Rog

 

 

 

Edited May 5 by Artful69
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[csavaglio]

Google lens will translate real time as you move your phone camera over the text. 

[Radub]

Right click on the image and choose "Search this image with Google Lens" and then highlight the areas of text that you need to translate. 

HTH 

Radu 

[LSP_Kevin]

Here's what I get:

 

AI Overview

 

This is a 1/32 scale plastic model kit of the Kawasaki Ki-100-I Otsu Type 5 Fighter from Zoukei-Mura's Super Wing Series (SWS). [1, 2]

• Pre-order Period: Reservations were accepted from June 26 to July 26, with a planned release in August.
• Detailed Features: The kit reproduces internal structures based on research of actual aircraft and includes a detailed radial engine.
• Version: This specific model is the "Otsu" version, featuring a bubble canopy. [1, 2, 3]

Kev

[CRAZY IVAN5]

I'll be preordering on the 26June,been waiting for this for awhile now. I get to put the Aero Detail #32 to work with this one!

[Gazzas]

Nice looking plane.  I wonder how many 'real' decal options of operational birds will be available.  That's the problem with late-war IJA and IJN stuff.  Many planes...   little fuel.  Apparently, their home-grown Avgas wasn't too good.  Might look good under a layer of foil.

[denders]

Well, I’ve been hoping that they will have it at NATS. 

[Artful69]

8 hours ago, denders said:

Well, I’ve been hoping that they will have it at NATS. 

Apparently that's supposed to be it's debut

 

Rog

[Paul2660]

I have always wondered why the wing ribs are solid?  I am sure in real life they would be perforated to reduce weight?  As is the case on most aircraft. They go to so much effort to show the internal details but have solid ribs. 
 

Also not sure if anyone noticed that with the FW-190 kits ZM stopped showing a parts breakout before each stage. I liked this as it allows you to get all the necessary parts setup before assembly. 
 

Paul

[CRAZY IVAN5]

3 hours ago, Paul2660 said:

I have always wondered why the wing ribs are solid?  I am sure in real life they would be perforated to reduce weight?  As is the case on most aircraft. They go to so much effort to show the internal details but have solid ribs. 
 

Also not sure if anyone noticed that with the FW-190 kits ZM stopped showing a parts breakout before each stage. I liked this as it allows you to get all the necessary parts setup before assembly. 
 

Paul

From what I can find in my Aero Detail #32 , the ribs aren't solid [ except for the "compression ribs" like on other aircraft]. I don't know what Z-M is driving at.

[CRAZY IVAN5]

20 hours ago, Gazzas said:

Nice looking plane.  I wonder how many 'real' decal options of operational birds will be available.  That's the problem with late-war IJA and IJN stuff.  Many planes...   little fuel.  Apparently, their home-grown Avgas wasn't too good.  Might look good under a layer of foil.

There probably won't be a lot of decal options considering they equipped only 10 squadrons and there were only a total of ~396 units produced.

[LSP_Mike]

The solid ribs? To save tooling costs would be my bet. It a neat concept.

 I'd be interested to read a US flight test with US avgas, as was done with the Ki 84.

[nmayhew]

9 hours ago, Paul2660 said:

I have always wondered why the wing ribs are solid?  I am sure in real life they would be perforated to reduce weight?  As is the case on most aircraft. They go to so much effort to show the internal details but have solid ribs. 
 

Also not sure if anyone noticed that with the FW-190 kits ZM stopped showing a parts breakout before each stage. I liked this as it allows you to get all the necessary parts setup before assembly. 
 

Paul

 

because the Z-m 'innards' are only a passing acquaintance of what the aircraft's internal structures actually were; i don't believe they have ever been an accurate replica of internal structures (and another irony is that they don't have that many panels you can leave open to see it anyway

 

it's like Trumpeter's crazy 'P-47 supercharger that you can't see' guy moved to Z-m when they formed lol

[csavaglio]

I don't care for interior structure but it did make for an interesting build method on the bf109.  The fuselage halves were joined gluing on the structure and not the two out skin halves. The center panel line was created with no sanding, filling, or scribing. The fit on the whole kit was nearly perfect. 

 

The ho229 was a different story. There were place where the fit wasn't great but tbf, I'm much more careful about dry fitting now and it could've been my fault. 

[Radub]

 

Please wait until you see the kit and it will make more sense. Believe it or not, the wing spars+plus ribs are just two parts, one for left and one for right. They are true marvels of mold-making. It is technically and physically impossible to make perforated ribs on such parts, even with some kind of extraordinarily complex multi-part slide molds. The spars+ribs are structural, they provide strength, but, more importantly, they also serve as mounting devices for the undercarriage, flaps, ailerons, guns, ammunition bays, fuel tanks and cockpit. The design team could have provided some kind of shapeless technically-cold mounting device (or possible multiple devices, instead of just one per wing) for mounting all these items. However, they decided to add some “flair” and “panache” and make these mounting devices look like the internal structure. 
HTH,

Radu