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What happened to Zoukei-Mura?


Rui Silva

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Hi all,

Something strange is (not) happening in Zoukei-Mura website's, since the 27th of January Hideyuki Shigeta-san's "The Old Man blog" has not been updated nor any information on the upcoming kits has been released, does anybody has a clue on what's going on?

 

 

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45 minutes ago, Rui Silva said:

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply but according with Z-M's website the next F-4 kit should be the F-4S with release this Summer... curioser and curioser :)

 

That is indeed true. Their next release will be the F-4S and, if I am not mistaken, is expected to be some time at the end of the year. 

 

I posted the link to the products that they announced at Shizouka because I inferred your question and post to ask if Zoukei-Mura was still active/alive.

 

Mark

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OMG, why released another (and boring !) short nose Phantom, when we need a long nose, Gun fitted F-4E !!! Academy ignored it, Zoukei Mura ignored it (and price of Zoukei Mura is very high...). F-4E is real MiG Killer and have too many beautiful and colorful camos !

Short nose....Booooring (when you have in kit stack Ed´s DaNang series...)

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11 minutes ago, AlCZ said:

OMG, why released another (and boring !) short nose Phantom, when we need a long nose, Gun fitted F-4E !!! Academy ignored it, Zoukei Mura ignored it (and price of Zoukei Mura is very high...). F-4E is real MiG Killer and have too many beautiful and colorful camos !

Short nose....Booooring (when you have in kit stack Ed´s DaNang series...)

 

 

Exactly my thoughts 

 

 

 

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Dear AICZ,

You can say many things about the short-nosed F-4s but in Vietnam they (F-4B/C/D and Js) were the real MiG killers by far, take a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_aerial_victories_of_the_Vietnam_War and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II

and check that short-nosed F-4s killed 126.5 MiGs (40 US Navy plus 86.5 USAF) against only 21 by F-4Es.

Even if you add Israeli AF F-4E MiG kills (95.5 according to Osprey A/C of the Aces #60 "Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces") the F-4E has precisely the same number of MiG kills (126.5)!

 

BR,

Rui 

 

 

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