Zoukei Mura, 1:32, Kyushu J7W1 Shinden

My latest build, the Zoukei Mura 1:32 scale Shinden. This is the “Oh, my godess” rebox, which I believe is a Shinden that has a part in a japanese cartoon. The kit comes with decals for the cartoon version and the “warbird” version.

During the build I discovered that I had the talent to create new words by combining two excisting ones… and for some reason they always started with a “F” or a…“F”

I knew the kit wasn’t a “shake 'n bake” -kit but I didn’t expected it to be a " 2 kilo’s of flour, 5 eggs, a gallon of milk, add 20 spoons of sugar, stir it for 2 days"-kit…

After a good start the build went very slow. the engine didn’t fit well in the fuselage. The parts for the cowling and gunbay didn’t fit well, I had to cut the panels of the cowling to make them fit properly, and cut a part of the "gun bay"wall to give the panels agood fit. I omitted the guns and only used the end of the barrels.

but in the end , I think, it turned out nice…

I used Tamiya acrylics for the plane, IJN Green, IJN Grey, Flat red for the hinomarus, yellow with a dot of red for the IFF. Chipping is done with revell enamels ( silver , green on top, silver and grey on bottom) , wheels are weathered with Revell enamels, Tamiya weathering pastels. Wash is done with Vallejo, black and sepia. Exhaust stains are done with Tamiya acrylics ( black and a couple of brown and sand colours.)

The complete build can be seen here on a Dutch forum;

http://plakkers-inc.nl/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2165

Best regards;

Ulrich Schütt

Hey Ulrich,

Excellent work, Bravo!

There is a poor quality film/video taken during taxi testing of that thing and they bent the propeller! Saw it on LSP’s forum.

Cheerio

It didnt turn out nice. It turned out VERY nice. Excellent weathering. Kinda odd seeing a plane without a tail though.

Excellent work! It looks stunning. You would think for the price and hype the kit carries that parts should fit like a glove. They were sold out at the IPMS Convention in Orlando last year. I believe a 1/48 scale version will be out soon which I want to get so hopefully the parts fit better in the smaller one.

To the guys above; thank you for the kind words!