Tamiya 61038 - 1/48 Kawanishi N1K1-J Type 11-Koh Shiden WWII  [61038]

Towards Kawanishi N1K1-Ja Shiden Type 11

Evolving from Kawanishi N1K1 "Kyofu" floatplane, the Imperial Japanese Navy's N1K1-J Shiden had an original pedigree among WW2 landplane fighters international. In January 1942, the Kawanishi Aircraft business started adaption of Kyofu into a land based fighter, strictly as your own endeavor. This happen quickly formally authorized in designation N1K1-J, aided by the initial model traveling in December 1942.
The airframe was essentially the the same as its predecessor, with primary landing gear and end wheel changing the floats. As opposed to the Kyofu's Mitsubishi Kasei engine, a much more compact and effective Nakajima Homare motor, a compact and effective Nakajima Homare motor finished up being set up. Exemplary performance and superb maneuverability finished up being achieved utilizing this motor, nonetheless it created serious issues.

To utilize each of the available energy in engine, a large diameter propeller finished up being required. This needed unusually long principal landing gear foot, because of the midwing setup. This caused issues in landing gear retraction system. Kawanishi engineers could resolve the problem by presenting telescopic principal landing gear feet. The complex gear system and unreliability with this motor, plagued the N1K1-J throughout its work, before the introduction of the enhanced, low-wing N1K2-J Shiden-Kai. About 1,000 N1K1-J fighters had been produced and also been active throughout the Philippine Islands, Formosa, Okinawa as well as on japan Island of Honshu.