【新商品
リーク!?情報続報③】
お待たせしました！新商品のもう1種の機体も判明です
こちらは「TBD-1 デバステイター」でした
こちらの商品の詳細はまた判明次第お知らせします
[New product leak !? Information follow-up ] Sorry I made you wait! Another new product has been revealed
This was the "TBD-1 Devastator" Details of this product will be announced as soon as it is known
新商品リーク!?情報続報②】
新商品情報のさらに続報です
この機体は…？
詳細お待ちください！
https://twitter.com/ftoys_scale/status/1507196800649768962
[New product leak !? Information follow-up ] Further follow-up on new product information What is this aircraft ...? Please wait for details!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_TBD_Devastator
【新商品リーク!?情報続報】
先日公開した新商品のぼかし画像の詳細が判明機体は「97式艦上攻撃機」でした
また情報が入り次第お知らせします
https://twitter.com/ftoys_scale/status/1506847088776126468?t=eb1gzoMeK6ZuTHysiSTvZA&s=09
1/144 Bayraktar TB2 Sputnik3D Labs
I would have thought bringing out a Ukranian Scheme would have been a priority?
This version comes with schemes for Turkey and Azerbaijan
The QR Code takes you to this link: https://ibb.co/album/pWLPtD
"coming soon"
https://twitter.com/Sputnik3Dlabs/status/1506533538396528644
【新商品㊙️リーク!?情報】
開発中の新商品の画像を入手！手振れしていますが、この画像は一体…？🧐詳細をお待ちください！
https://twitter.com/ftoys_scale/status/1504738105919959041
#エフトイズ
Translated from Japanese
[New product ㊙️ leak !? Information]
Get images of new products under development! The camera shakes, but this image is ...? 🧐 Please wait for the details!
Assume 1/144, though this is subject to confirmation.
possible: B5N2 Kate.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_B5N
#エフトイズ
1/150 'General Aviation' Hanager - Greenmax
Being reissued/re-mastered based on a 1987 edition. A general aviation hanger from Greenmax who produce a range of relatively cheap (compared to Faller) plastic inject scenic/diorama kits. Also, as Japanese N-scale is 1/150 it should fit pretty well with 1/144 (opposed to US/EU N-scale which can be a bit too small at 1/160) - obviously both systems use the sage N-Gauge Track width at 9mm (for the pedants out there.
Estimated Release Date: July 2022
Item Number <2220>
Product features
A hangar is a building that protects an aircraft from the elements. It differs from general warehouses in that large doors are stored in the door pockets installed on the left and right sides of the front of the building so that the opening width will be about the same as the width of the building when the front door is fully opened. It is a feature. The roots are semi-cylindrical and have no pillars inside.
By cutting the front door at any part of the product, it is possible to reproduce the fully closed-partially open-fully open state. By adding the separately sold "Factory Equipment A and B" to the side and back of the building, peripheral equipment such as office buildings, exhaust ducts, cranes, general-purpose tanks, and pipelines can be reproduced. Ideal as a hangar for diorama, 1/144 scale small aircraft, helicopters, etc.
-Commercialized the phantom structure kit "hangar" published in the catalog vol.9 released 30 years ago-
Reproduce the shape peculiar to the aircraft hangar where the doors are stored in the door pockets installed on the front left and right of the building
* Because it is an unpainted kit, it needs to be assembled and painted.
* Product specifications may differ from the actual product.
Announcement: http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/gmstore-staff/archives/85194
Product Page: http://www.greenmax.co.jp/gm-product/2220.html
Hobby Search Page: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10868214
Also, if your airbase is large enough and interesting ' (early) Showa Period' Cinema
Product Page: http://www.greenmax.co.jp/gm-product/2221.html
Hobby Search Page: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10868215
1/144 Dassault Mirage III "Two Seater" - Mark I
https://www.4pluspublications.com/en/news-in-preparation/
Injection-moulded models to be released at the end of March 2022:
MKM144132 Mirage IIIBE/DE/DS/5BD Two-seater ‘European Service’
MKM144133 Mirage IIIDP/5SDD/5DM/Nesher T Two-seater ‘Asia & Africa’
MKM144134 Mirage IIID/50DC/50DV/Dagger T Two-seater ‘Australia & South America’
1/144 Curtiss H-75A-4/A-8/P-36G ‘Late Hawks’ - Mark.I
Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 23 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, rear windows and a landing light). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
SKU: MKM144126
The Curtiss H-75 was the export version of the American P-36 Hawk (Curtiss Model 75) fighter of the mid-1930s. The biggest foreign customer was France, where the first planes entered service in the spring of 1939. Of the fourth French sub-variant ordered, the H-75A-4 (H-751), only a handful reached the country before it surrendered to Nazi Germany in June 1940 while the rest of 190 a/c were taken over by the RAF as the Mohawk IV.
In March 1940 Norway ordered 36 H-75A-8s, but in the event they did not reach Europe and were used as advanced trainers in Canada. Of these, 30 a/c were bought by the USAAF in 1942 and after a short service they were sold to Peru.
The H-75A-4/8 was a single-seat, all-metal low-wing monoplane with fabric-covered control surfaces. It had a retractable undercarriage with the main landing gear rotated 90° to fold flat into the wing. Powered by a Wright R-1820 Cyclone single-row radial engine, it was fitted with Curtiss Electric propeller. Its armament consisted of two machine guns in the nose and another two guns in each wing. Racks for two to five bombs could also be mounted under each outer section of the wing.
Following the fall of France a number of Curtiss H-75 aircraft were seized by Germans and some of them were used by the Luftwaffe for pilot training. In the summer of 1941 the first batch of ex-French H-75s, including seven H-751s, were sold to Finland, which extensively used them against Soviet forces.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Curtiss H-75A-4, CUc-504, (ex-French H-751 No.24/ex-Luftwaffe DS+NQ), 1/LeLv 12 (Fighter Sq.), Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat), Joroinen airfield, Finland, summer 1941
2) Curtiss H-75A-8, No. 465, ‘Little Norway’ Air Force Training Camp, Norwegian Army Air Service (Hærens flyvåpen), Toronto Island Airport, Ontario, Canada, 1942-43
3) Curtiss Mohawk Mk.IV, BS734, White 14, Air Transport Auxiliary Flight, Royal Air Force, Wroughton airfield, Wiltshire, U.K., 1941
4) Curtiss P-36G (ex-Norwegian H-75A-8), s/n 42-108995, Yellow 2108995, USAAF, Patterson Field, Ohio, U.S.A., early 1943
RELEASED 3/2022, Usual Stockist
https://www.4pluspublications.com/en/produkt/mkm144126-curtiss-h-75a-4-8-p-36g-late-hawks/
One injection-moulded kit is supplied in this box; it contains 48 parts and one clear part (the cockpit canopy). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
[MKM144119]
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier “Jump Jetˮ is a British V/STOL aeroplane developed in the 1960s. The initial version, the Harrier GR.1, was based on the pre-production P.1127 (RAF) fighter, of which a batch of 60 was ordered for the RAF in 1967. A similar model – designated Mk.50, with simplified navigational/attack system, was exported to the United States as the AV-8A, for use by the Marine Corps and a total of 102 aircraft were delivered during the early 1970s. Some 60 aircraft were upgraded as the AV-8Cs by mid 1980s.
The Harrier GR.1/AV-8 was a single-seat fixed-wing all-metal monoplane powered by a R-R Pegasus turbojet (US designation F402), used for ground-attack, close air support, reconnaissance and fighter roles. It was fitted with two air intakes and four vectoring nozzles for directing the thrust generated by the engine. It had a tandem undercarriage and two outrigger landing gear units. External store hard points were installed for carrying a variety of weapons and external fuel tanks: two under each wing and one under the fuselage, while two Aden cannon gun pods could also be fitted beneath the fuselage.
The Harrier was a very innovative aeroplane and the only truly successful V/STOL design of the many that arose during that period of time and it became the versatile warrior of the RAF.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR Mk.3, XV738, Grey B, No.4 Sq., RAF, during ‘Exercise Match Coat‘, Gütersloh Air Base, Germany, September 1984
2) Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR Mk.3, XZ129/A2604 (ex-RAF a/c), Black ETS, Engineering Training School (ETS), RN, serving as an instructional airframe, RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), Somerset, U.K., 1992-94
3) AV-8A Harrier (Hawker Siddeley Harrier Mk.50), BuNo 158703, White 703, VMA-513 (Marine Attack Squadron 513) ‘Flying Nightmares’, US Marine Corps, Sheppard AFB, Texas, U.S.A., April 1980
4) AV-8C Harrier (Hawker Siddeley Harrier Mk.50), BuNo 158387/N719NA, Black 719, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Ames Research Center, NAS Moffett Field, California, U.S.A., 1986-1995
RELEASED 3/2022, Usual Stockist.
https://www.4pluspublications.com/en/produkt/mkm144119-harrier-special-markings/
1/144 Mohawk IV/Curtiss H-75A-7 ‘Overseas Service’ - Mark.I
Two injection-moulded kits are supplied in this box and each kit contains 21 parts and four clear parts (the cockpit canopy, rear windows and a landing light). A comprehensive decal sheet is included.
SKU: MKM144103
The Curtiss H-75 was the export version of the American P-36 Hawk (Curtiss Model 75) fighter of the mid-1930s. The biggest foreign customer was France, taking deliveries of aircraft designated the H-75A-1, 2, 3 and 4, with the first planes entering service in the spring of 1939. They were modified for French Air Force usage and fitted with different equipment and armament. The H-75A-4 was locally renamed the H-751, of which 97 were shipped from the U.S.A.; however, only a handful reached France before it surrendered to Nazi Germany in June 1940 while the rest (190 a/c) were taken over by the RAF as the Mohawk IV.
The H-75s (the A-7 model) were also ordered by the Netherlands, but they did not arrive in time in Europe and 20 of them were diverted to the Dutch East Indies in May 1940.
The H-75A-4/7 was a single-seat, all-metal low-wing monoplane with fabric-covered control surfaces. It had a retractable undercarriage with the main landing gear rotated 90° to fold flat into the wing. Powered by a Wright R-1820 Cyclone single-row radial engine, it was fitted with Curtiss Electric propeller. The H-75’s armament consisted of two machine guns in the nose and another two guns (H-75A-4) or one (H-75A-7) in each wing. Racks for two to five bombs could also be mounted under each outer section of the wing.
The Dutch H-75s saw action against Japan in 1941-42, but the remaining aircraft were withdrawn from operational use early in 1942. The RAF’s Mohawk Mk.IVs were sent to overseas and used in India and Burma while a great number of them was also supplied to the South African Air Force. In 1942, sixteen ex-RAF Mohawk IVs were delivered to Portugal and assigned to air defence duties in the Azores; they went out of service in 1945.
Colour schemes included in the kit:
1) Curtiss Mohawk Mk.IV, BS734, Grey A, ‘Joe Soap II’, No.155 Sq., Royal Air Force, Imphal airfield, Northeast India, late 1943
2) Curtiss Mohawk Mk.IV, BB977, Black D, No.5 Sq., Royal Air Force, Agartala airfield, Northeast India, January 1943
3) Curtiss H-75A-7, s/n C-332, Black C332, 1-VLG-IV (1st Sq., 4th Aircraft Group), Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (Militaire Luchtvaart – Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger, ML-KNIL), Madiun airfield, Java, Netherlands East Indies, early 1941
4) Curtiss Mohawk Mk.IV, 485 (ex-RAF Mohawk Mk.IV, s/n unknown), White XY-F/485, ‘XY’ Flt., E.E.C. 3 (Esquadrilha Expedicionária n° 3), Portuguese Air Force (Aeronáutica Militar), Ota airfield (BA 2), Portugal, summer 1943
Release Date: 03/2022, Usual Stockists
1/144Reduced Aircraft Factory LLC and Shapeways pre-printed Colour 3D models
The following is a guest post from the Reduced Aircraft Factory, having seen the pre-printed 3D colour models, I thought that the wider 1/144 community would be interesting in how this was being achieved and the considerations and challenges in producing/converting exiting models. I hope you find this interesting.
If any other manufactures would like to share an insight into the methods, challenges, and innovations they encounter in the production of their products that you feel the community would be interested in please do contact me.
--- KG144
When last summer Shapeways added Mimaki full-color to their offerings, I was pretty excited. Here, at last, was a way to produce miniatures in a ready-to-use state for folks that did not have the time or materials to paint and decal 1:144 planes.
Admittedly the price was higher than I'd like: Shapeways charges $20 and then adds on for every cubic millimeter of material used.
What did not disappoint was the quality of the prints!
Surface quality: It's only when I take a photo that I really notice any stepping or uneven reflections from the 3D printed material. From a normal viewing distance the only thing you might notice is a kind of satiny sheen to the surface rather than a fully smooth specular reflection. I haven't tried sanding them because I don't know how deep the color runs. As for thinner struts and surfaces, it would probably take a new generation of Mimaki printers, or that of another manufacturer.
The gamut of colors produced is pretty wide and the precision of the colors is very fine. For instance, check out the playing cards on this Baracchini Hanriot H.D.1 print:
If you look in my shop and click on several of the selections, you'll see photos of actual prints. However, I keep the computer renders as the primary image so there is uniformity in the catalog. (I don't own a copy of every selection. Plus, I don't want to wait a few weeks for each plane to arrive before making it available.)
I've got hundreds of single-color miniatures available on Shapeways, but it takes significant work to get one of them ready for full-color printing. First, there is a one millimeter minimum size of any significant structure, whether its the thickness of a wing or tail part or strut. That is larger than other Shapeways materials, so I had to upscale many features on the models I'd already done. That is also why the struts and thicknesses look large compared to their real-life counterpart: 1mm at 1:144 corresponds to 14.4cm at 1:1 scale or about six inches, so it's as if each strut is about six inches in diameter.
The hardest part is unwrapping the plane onto a 2D texture map that determines which color will end up in which place. That's a lot like deciding how you're going to peel the surface off a globe and flatten it out to be 2D. This is something that cartographers have been struggling with for centuries. If you do it one way you get a lot of distortion in that mapping; if you do it another way you have to tear things on natural seams, which leads to less distortion but a harder time matching color changes at those seams. Here's an example texture map at reduced size:
Some of my challenges are exactly the same as we face with conventional methods: what colors do I choose and how much weathering do I want to show? The former leads to hunting down magazines and books from the 1960s to today, Methuen Handbook of Color, and a bluetooth color sensor. I do some weathering on my models, but I typically keep it pretty modest to match the precedent of traditionally-manufactured models, which look factory-fresh.
What excites me about full-color 3D printing is that it removes many of the obstacles of inventory and distribution that would make certain models impractical using conventional methods. For instance, when Ares decides they want to produce a new model, they have to arrange for thousands of them to be manufactured in China, shipped to markets around the world, and distributed to game stores or inventoried for direct sales. There is no way they can take the financial risk or producing a plane or paint scheme that might not be a big seller. On the other hand, if I produce, say, a Sopwith Camel in George Vaughn's paint scheme and sell none, the only loss is the time I put into it. So a traditional company can afford to make 3-5 paint schemes for a Fokker D.VII available due to production and inventory challenges, I've already made 14 paint schemes available, and I'm adding more as I get time.
If I had a wish, it would be for the Shapeways base price to come down -- that would put full-color 3D prints in the reach of many more people. And today I'm limited to single-seat fighters by the pricing...I did one larger plane at 1:144 and the base Shapeways price was just too high. But it's not like I'm going to run out of paint schemes and smaller planes any time soon! Please feel free to follow up with any questions.
-- Daryl, Reduced Aircraft Factory LLC
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ReducedAircraft
https://www.facebook.com/ReducedAircraft
https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/showthread.php?34544-Full-Color-3D-Prints-%28RAF%29
