Is Your Ta 152 Being Brought Up Happily!!??

At this time, to everyone who has purchased the Zoukei-mura SWS Ta 152 kit, thank you ever so very much.
Thanks to you, ever since going on sale, the kit has received rave reviews from many in the scale modeling community, and even today, continues to sell in increasing numbers.

 Literally, Zoukei-mura's greatest allies, our strongest supporters, and the people who best understand us, are, to be completely frank, none other than all of you who have purchased the kit. For your powerful support, as the representative of all of Zoukei-mura, I extend our most heartfelt gratitude.

 Also, in spite of the many hardships involved in purchasing SWS items, as we still lack any retailers, we surprisingly received orders and purchases from all over the world, from the nooks and crannies of so many countries.

 To everyone who purchased from us, over the great distance between us I truly, truly thank you.

In the Ta 152 Concept Note are some amazing finished models, with accompanying reviews, that can be seen for the first time! What's this, Mr. Tamenori has already modified his Ta 152 into the base plane that became the H type, the “Fw190V29”!! It is a magnificent finished work.

Another completed Ta 152 model, this time by Mr. Kobayashi! With sheet metal applied on every surface, it exudes yet another kind of appeal. How dignified!!

 Now, Zoukei-mura will be participating in the Toy Fair that will be taking place in Nuremberg, Germany, from February 3 to February 8.

“This year, our booth will be # F37 in Building 7.”

 We are making preparations to display several finished models in the booth, beginning with the Shinden, the Ta 152, and finally a Test Shot of the Skyraider.

 Also for this year, we will be exhibiting with the aim of establishing retailers in the following regions:

*Europe　*Canada　*South America　*Australia　*China

If any of you reading this should be acquainted with a hobby shop or a wholesaler, I would be very happy if you were to inform them of this matter.
One of our employees who can speak English, named Yamanaka, will be on the grounds of the Toy Fair, waiting to hear any of your questions or concerns.

 In the event that you will not be attending the Toy Fair, it's also OK to send an email to the address in the Opinion Corner at the end of my blog entry. You will receive an answer from the person in charge of wholesale.

 Now~ regarding the Ta 152,

 how is it, the state of your Ta 152's build progress?

Certainly, I can surmise that your build is going … well…….?,

Eh? All you've done so far is take it out of the box? What on earth, how did this happen?

 Well then, don't you think that your front line fighter plane squadron is going to be in pinch? Wasn't it you who deliberately created an empty spot at a place of pride in your window, just waiting for your completed Ta 152?

Mm~m, the real pleasure of the scale airplane model hobby!! This can truly be found in finished builds!!

 The actual aircraft, and then the completed work!! That is truly your hobby, no, the very source itself which brings power to your life~~~!

 “I already know that!” you say, well, naturally~.

 Work is busy! Yes, of course, and the truth is, so is mine.

 No free time right now! Of course, of course, I don't have any free time, either.

 I have also been very busy recently, and have been putting off building my beloved model airplanes, so I really have no place to talk, but even so, here is where I would like to presume and say that the trembling delight that you feel when you are close to finishing a model, that joy that wells up in your heart – I wish from my heart that you will soon savor that feeling with the SWS Ta 152.

Come, go at once to your work area and prepare those nippers. Won't you begin your build by cutting the parts free, just like in the assembly manual?
The very moment where you find your resolve is when your chance to achieve completion arrives!

 Oh! This is the very moment when it's time to use your treasured diamond files. It's a waste, just an utter waste, to leave such gems just sleeping in your tool box. Because it's SWS, because it's the Ta 152 in 1/32 scale, it's time to use those super high-efficiency tools.

 Wha~at, as long as you finish what you were doing, it's all right. There's nothing to stop you from immersing yourself in your hobby. Let us proceed in the belief that only allies can be found in those around you.

 This moment, here and now, is your chance to finish the German Air Ministry's strongest fighter plane, known as the Ta 152, to the very end all in one go.

 Here I am talking all high and mighty, and yet, were you to ask me the state of my own Ta 152 … sorry!

 The truth is, I myself have only just finally finished shaping the propeller, so I really have no room to talk.
Moreover, while I've been bustling to and fro, the guys here on the Zoukei-mura Scale Model Development Team have already been steadily finishing each part for the next new model in the SWS, the Skyraider!

 Wo~ow! Before I could even blink.

Because of this, happiness and shock intersect for me every day, such that my eyes and my hands, my head and my heart, are in chaos! Everything just becomes one big jumble.

While being captivated by the Ta 152's beautiful airframe, the inside of my head is filled with the sculpted beauty and intensity found in the flowing form of the Skyraider's fuselage, and thus my heart is disarrayed into pieces.

 “Ah~ I really want the Skyraider right now~!!”

 I'm so happy that the inside of my heart feels as if it will burst open, and it's truly unfortunate that I cannot show you the proof of it.
　 In truth, I am so beset with excitement and delight that it is to the point where I can no longer express it.

 And that is all that I will say on that for now.

 Regarding my Ta 152 build, of course I would like to make progress on it. I will continue to do my best, always in the belief that someday the time will come when I will be able to show all of you a finished model that I built!

Yes, yes, speaking of the Ta 152, with all the strength of the Zoukei-mura staff, the “Ta 152 Concept Note,” also known as the Ta 152 kit walkthrough guide, is finished. Finally, it will soon be on sale!!

 At any rate, for this Concept Note, an actual aircraft at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in America is thoroughly covered! Also included are heaps of supporting pictures that are making their first appearance in print, enough to make any scale modeler's mouth water.
　Moreover, as a special bonus for those who pre-order the book, nothing less than a photo set from when we were researching the Ta 152 will be included as a present, free of charge. How exciting!

 As the best kind of documentation of the real aircraft, definitely do get your hands on one.

 Also, participating in the much-anticipated finished model gallery, with build reports included, are distinguished veteran scale modelers from England, France, and Japan!
Their magnificent finished works, along with their secret techniques, are liberally displayed in full color. It's so utterly amazing that it's guaranteed to be useful as a reference!

 Truly, the question is do you read it after you build, or do you read it before you build. That enjoyable but difficult choice awaits you. Please do add the Concept Note to your collection of documentation. Oh, and there are several different photo sets which vary according to type and content, so please look forward to this choice as well. You will likely come to want all of them.

 Some wonderful aspects of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum are that these witnesses of history, which can also be called the legacy of humanity, are given a reason and a place to exist in surety, where they are held in safekeeping, considerately restored, and studied and validated by many people, with the continued offer of the opportunity and the chance to conduct research.

 While being given a tour through those magnificent buildings, that noble and sincere attitude struck my heart.

Here at this time, on behalf of all airplane fans, I would like to extend my sincerest thanks and gratitude.

The Ta 152 Concept Note finally makes its debut! Of course, some excellent Ta 152 finished models are included, and you can't miss the heaps of photos and valuable preservation information from an actual aircraft held in safekeeping at the Smithsonian.	Look at this!
	Look at this!

And finally, Zoukei-mura challenges the Skyraider's “Mysterious 40-Year Vacuum”!!

 That's right! For the 1/32 size, over a long period of approximately 40 years, no one anywhere released a plastic model kit of the Skyraider, not even a single plane.

 The closest was that Revell masterpiece of a kit existed in the 1/40 scale size, and this can only be called an utter mystery.

 Its magnificent achievements, its powerful presence, and the perfect appeal of its beautiful fuselage adorn the end of the age of reciprocating engine attack planes. Why has it not been made into a model kit for such a long time? It's truly mystifying.

 The time for Zoukei-mura to finally challenge that huge mystery known as making a Skyraider model kit has finally arrived!