Zoukei Mura SWS 1/32 Skyraider Review

[@jonathanatkinson5485]

Hi Peter, These kits look great but are hard to get hold of in the UK, where do you get yours from? Thanks.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Not sure Johnathan, this one was a gift. 😕

[@coreyseals4269]

They take pride in their work that's why you have a quality kit! I'm going to pick one up now for sure! I want to say thanks for another great inbox review! Happy New Year to you and all the plastic junkies out there!

[@robertgrimsted877]

Thank Pete one of my favourite American planes done well

[@c123bthunderpig]

Excellent model review a always. The " Sandy" was in such demand during the Vietnam War the services asked the manufacturer to make more the manufacture would have to tool the factory back up and Congress vetoed the new price.

[@robertgrimsted877]

Skyhalk is another classic plane loved the raf version on the phantom

[@Serenityindailylife]

It has a litter system to be able to casevac 2 wounded behind the seat. There's an actual boom and winch system built into the plane to pick up litters. They were used in Desert Storm to evac a Special Operations team member who had been wounded.

[@davroshalfbeard8368]

Look forward to seeing it built you did a great job on the tamiya mustang 👍

[@leefennell]

Another informative and thorough review. Thanks, Peter. Happy New Year to you and your family.

[@ModelkitStuff]

loverly kit as always from ZM, bizzar that they have gone with multi colour sprue!! I think your right they have seen all your matchbox reviews and decided to follow their lead!! great review Peter, happy new year to you.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Thanks Jason! All the best for 2022! 👍🏻☺️

[@midnightmodeling1639]

Awesome Christmas Present Peter, Looks like a great Kit. Happy New Year.

[@joshuariddensdale2126]

I'm currently building Tamiya's 1/48 Skyraider, and have Trumpeter's 1/32 scale of the A1J Skyraider. The latter can be painted in either Army camo or Navy gray and white. Due to space constraints, I'll probably have to model it with the wings folded.

[@fintajoe]

Great review Peter. One note only. They shoot down the Mig-17s in Vietnam, not in Korea

[@robertgrimsted877]

Love building American fighters love the decals on them

[@stephenlovelock5563]

Hi Peter just finished watching your sky raider video and I am most impressed with the model and your review,i watch your videos when they come out and am always impressed,so keep up with your reviews and I wish you and your family a happy and safe new year.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Thanks Stephen! Best wishes to you and yours for 2022! 👍🏻

[@seanconservativeburke]

Hellow Peter , I, own this kit and paid only $ 140.00 American dollars for it ? And you get 3 to 4 times the plastic compared to wing nut wings kit which are $180 to $300 per kit big difference . Zoukei mura ,kits are as good as Tamyia ,and or wnw kits ,in my opinion..... They are more then worth there price couldn't be happier ? As always great review Peter ? Keep up the good work sr .

[@Russell-1]

Sean - you are a bit off with your prices. Many Wingnut Wings kits were more like $79 to $119 when they stopped production. The most expensive kit (excluding any ‘duel’ kit boxing’s) was the huge Felixstowe at $269. As far as fidelity of moulding I agree with you that ZM are superb but even ZM don’t compare to WnW. As far as the amount of plastic in a box (if that’s important) the WnW Felixstowe had a vast amount of it in the box & the kit pushed the craft of injection moulding to limits not seen before or since.

[@memkiii]

Nice! Having just grabbed a 1/48th Tamiya Skyraider, I have to admit a just hint of jealousy. I got socks for Xmas. As for the Multicolour sprues, it sort of makes sense for the black one and the silver one with all the engine parts, but why the cockpit sprue? I did notice that the Tamiya 1/32 Zero has a silver sprue for the engine parts.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Must be Japanese fashion? Tamiya and ZM also have a habit of doing clear sprues too!

[@memkiii]

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab do you think there might be some business or manufacturers connection, in the way that the Chinese companies seem to be?

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

@@memkiii Hmmm...it's possible, though I doubt they will admit it as it could 'dilute the brand'!

[@memkiii]

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Inscrutable as always ;)

[@shaynebray4085]

Peter - the MIG-17 first saw combat in 1958 in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis .

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

It was the first shoot-down gun-kill of the Vietnam war, not Korea. Sorry for my verbal typo. Still, - even more remarkable, isn't it?

[@paulmoore5401]

FYI, the rockets you referred to as “Zuni’s” were 2.75” FFAR (Forward Firing Aircraft Rockets). Zuni rockets are 5” rockets. Thanks for the review.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

I've made the same mistake before...I have a 'Zuni fixation'! Lol...thanks buddy.👍🏻

[@paulmoore5401]

Was VA-176 the ONLY squadron that ever flew the “Spad”! Why does every A-1H Navy Spad model come as this aircraft? Off the top of my head I can think of Monogram, ESCI, Tamiya, and now ZM with this same aircraft from VA-176. Interesting. 🤨

[@memkiii]

@@paulmoore5401 Perhaps simply because there are at least 2 aircraft in those markings in museums for the model designers to use as research material?

[@paulmoore5401]

@@memkiii Thanks for the note. Do you know where the museums are that have them?

[@memkiii]

@@paulmoore5401 The cavanaugh flight museum in Texas has an airworthy one but it appears they have repainted it in USAF colours. Strangely I can no longer find the other museum I found this morning, A photo claimed one was in the Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, another one said Planes of Fame Air Museum, Valle-Willians Arizona. Duxford in the UK had one (it was damaged in a collision with a Mustang). No idea where it is now. Possibly France. I guess my quick google search must have found some old photos of these 2? All I am certain of is that the internet lies!

[@gideonschlen4022]

I'm keen to see how thins one goes. My local hobby shop has this and the Air Force version. Please post some build videos. I'm currently building Their F-4-EJ Kai Phantom Forever kit. IF that's anything to go by, quality and detail are excellent but it expects you as a modeler to know your shit ant be very precise. So test fit everything a million times.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

My lead time for a big kit project like this is 10 years, so please be patient.

[@gideonschlen4022]

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab is a shame. I'm having a lot of fun. They do expect you to be very practice in parts clean up but the engineering is impressive. Everything is keyed asymmetricly so parts can't be accidentally assembled backwards or parts from the other Phantom versions on common sprues can't be accident used.

[@basfinnis]

Does look very nice indeed. Not my favourite aircraft but lovely looking kit. You going for the beard look as well or not standing close enough to the razor? 😛

[@stephencostello8792]

Peter. Why do you have eight lamps? Do you use them all? That looks like a great kit. I would have liked to have seen the famous toilet ordnance though as well

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

I have nine lamps...and yes, use them all. I have seen the photos of the toilet bomb! 😆

[@bradleywhit8159]

During the war, U.S. Navy Skyraiders used their cannon to shoot down two Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 jet fighters. The first, on 20 June 1965 by Lieutenant Clinton B. Johnson and LTJG Charles W. Hartman III of VA-25,[20] was the first gun kill of the Vietnam War. The other was on 9 October 1966 by LTJG William T. Patton of VA-176.[12]

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Hi Bradley, Yes, these were the very first shoot-downs of the Vietnam War! Amazing, huh?

[@bradleywhit8159]

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab And the first gun camera kill of the war.. Yes sir, nothing but amazing..

[@mrsmith4662]

It does look like an excellent kit, with such a level of detail. However, I'm sure it must be pretty expensive and definitely niche. The Skyraider is bigigsh at 1/72, maybe fine at 1/48th, but 1/32nd, well. I've just had to shift some out of the house to the garage and need to get some more storage boxes, as the 1/32nd FW 190D won't fit in with the plethora of 1/72nds. Where might this one end up one thinks? Looking forward to seeing it finished Peter.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

I need a new cabinet for this! 😳

[@bradleywhit8159]

Found the Wikapedia mig 17s being shot down by 2 A7 Sky Raiders.

[@robertgrimsted877]

It would look amazing when it’s built pete

[@andypreston2982]

super kit

[@robertgrimsted877]

Got to laugh my brother used to make all the older American fighters matchbox in the seventies but he never bothered painting them so me thinking I started painting and putting decals on as a kid I thought they looked awesome with cotton hanging from the ceiling ha ha

[@Serenityindailylife]

Japanese kits have a higher standard. One of the things they do is wash the sprues before packaging. Another is that they can be assembled without painting if you wish. This is why the sprues are colored. The biggest failure for Japanese kits would be the necessity to prime your plastic. It would be disgraceful to make a kit that requires it. Remember this stuff isn't made in the same place as the Chinese garbage. They have industry standards in Japan.

[@waynebrown3536]

Static Dischargers

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

???

[@memkiii]

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab He's refering to the point at 27:18 where you look at the rudder. Those floppy looking "Aerials" are Static Dischargers, otherwise known as Static Wicks. The same things are on all trailing edges. And can be found on many Post WWII aircraft.

[@stephenmoss2554]

Yes, static Wicks were and still are, meant to discharge static electricity which builds up as any aircraft flies through the air. Potential to interfere with Nav/Com radio. Don't think I've seen them represented in a plastic kit before.

[@paulhunter7002]

The Skyraider could carry more payload than a B-17

[@memkiii]

*Almost* the same as a B-17 internal Max load (and a DH Mosquito). However, at a stretch, the B-17 could carry external stores on underwing 2 racks, of up to 4000lb each side. I'm sure the range would have been atrocious though.

[@vatromet1]

Hello! Would you be so kind as to tell me what colors the interior, the cockpit, and the upper surface of the plane are painted? In the Zoukei Mura component. It is very important for me to know this, because I come across different information, and I would not want to make a mistake. Thank you and best regards.

[@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab]

Sorry to tell you that I sold the kit on so cannot help on that detail. Good luck with tracking down the data. 👍🏻