Preview New releases from Takom 1/144 Ekranoplan & 1/350 WWI Zeppelins 

Cool kits!! 👍👍

I remember my grandmother telling me how as a child she watched terrified as a Zeppelin come down in flames over the East end of London. In the UK, we call them airships, but I think originally they were called dirigibles.

Those Zeppelins are looking pretty nice.

A blimp is nothing more than a powered balloon, a Zeppelin has a rigid internal frame to which the gas bags are attached, followed by a covering of the frame to make it more aerodynamic

Thanks for the reviews, always good to see the actual sprues and instructions, especially for these very different subjects. Cheers.

Ekranoplans are generally classed as GROUND EFFECT VEHICLES, rather than aircraft. Indeed, they operate just above the surface of water [typically], snow, ice, or [sometimes] land. There were some Soviet aircraft that could use Ground Effect and also fly at altitude...such as the VVA-14 [aka Thunderbird 2, because of its appearance], but that is another story.

Takom is on another level. Just built the newish M60 ( purchased from Andy's) and their Tiran 4. Better than anything else on the market.

I'm coming over to Phoenix in December and hopefully you will have something on the shelves. So many items sell out so fast.

I love all the weird Soviet designs. This one reminds me of an old Hanna Barbera cartoon: Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines...

I hope Takom keeps adding to their 1/144 and 1/350 range. So many options for them ahead.

Ekranoplanes are it's own category of vehicles different than airplanes, similarly blimps and zeppelins are different kinds of airships :)

Oooo! I'm going to get the Ekranoplan and put COBRA Markings on it!

Really exciting to watch your project. Hope you can make a video for beginners.

Pretty cool kits love this channel. I'm still trying to get the 1/16 Stug. Just got to rob Peter and say to heck with Paul and get me that amazing kit. ;)

Very cool! I love seeing these unique kits!

Some great looking kits from takom enjoyable video Andy and very informative thanks Steve

Always great when I see a new Andy's Hobby video up. 👍😀

This 'Caspian Sea Monster' is huge!

The Zeps look like fun builds.

Placed the Pre-order for my Ekranoplan yesterday! I can't wait to build it, what a fantastic vehicle this was. It must have been amazing to see them in action! I wish I could afford the Border Models Lancaster, but I've got too many other builds going on at the moment. Thank you so much Andy for having this outstanding kit available! Will definitely be giving you a shout out on the channel!

Styrene Nirvana Zeppelins and the ground effect craft.

Great video!

Loved the review of the Takom Zeppelin models! Zeppelins are my favorite tech/history geek out; here's some background on the different types of ships used during WWI: During the early war years, both the German Army Air Force (Luftstreitkräfte) and German Navy operated Zeppelins to raid England and France conjointly, this lasted until September of 1916 when the Luftstreitkräfte lost one of its brand new ships, the SL-11, on its first raid, and subsequently lost all interest in operating Zeppelins and long range bombing of England, letting the Navy Airships Division, commanded by the zealous KptLt. Peter Strasser, continue these operations on their own. There was a single Type-N Class Zeppelin LZ-26, which entered service with the German Army Air Force under tactical ID Z XII in December of 1914; it was a successful bomber that made 11 combat flights over Northern France and the Eastern Front. She dropped a total of 44,000 lbs of bombs and later an additional 20,000 lbs on the Warsaw to Petrograd trunk railway line and was able to carry 6,600 lbs each flight. The next model in the series was Type-M Class Zeppelin of which 11 were built. There were only two Type-O Class Zeppelins, but 22 of the evolved Type P-Class and 12 Type-Q Class, which were unfinished Type-P Class hulls that were lengthened to provide more lift. The all new Type-R Class "Super-Zeppelin" debuted in May of 1916. Karl Arnstein referred to the Type-R Class as being the first "modern" Zeppelin design. They were able to carry 61,00 lbs of bombs with a range of 4600 miles. 17 examples were built, the last, LZ-90 in 1917. Meanwhile, Zeppelin Company engineers worked on the Type-S Class, known as the Height-Climber, due to its lightened structure to improve maximum altitude ceiling. 1917-1918 saw several smaller scale classes with the Class-T Type (2), Class-U Type (5), Class-V Type (10), Class-W Type (2 which saw service in the Mediterranean) and the Class-X Type (3) which were to be the last wartime Zeppelins constructed.

Thanks! I´ve been looking forward to the Ekranoplan since it was announced. Great to see the contents of the box for the first time.

The Ekranoplan looks SO up my street. Watched a couple of vids on it and it's such an interesting thing

Love the WIG Wing In Ground effects Ekranoplan. When these came out there was talk of 3 versions. The one the model is as stated is the anti-ship version. It carries 6 SS-N-22 Sunburn ASCM with a 68 to 80 mile range, though supposedly the range has been increased. The larger radar dome on the top of the tail is called Front Dome which guides the 22. The other versions were one that was supposed to carry troops and the other was going to focus on ASW.

I will have to get one of the airship as I been wonting one for a long time very good review Andy looking forward to seeing you build more models

Some more nice kits you have got alot of interesting kits andy 👍

Hi, Andy, You've nailed the pronouncement of Lun' class Ekranoplan :) Thanks for the review!

The Ekranoplan looks like one of the kit-bashed builds I would do as a kid - just keep gluing on wings and engines. LOL

Ekranoplan is actually classified as a maritime ship due to it's ground effect system

Love those zeppelins! Imagine them in 1/32 scale!

Waiting for the Ekranoplan. Always dreamed to build it

"The Caspian Sea monster" was how NATO referred to the Ekranoplan.

Yeah we call them Blimps in the UK to! das werk also have new relises Dragon's m46 Bridge layer coming out same time as there RSO!

Oh lordy… 😱 X’Mas is approaching and I have so many things in mind… I haven’t built anything from Takom yet, judging by your video it looks like a decent kit… Thanks again Andy!

Oooft! I gotta have that Ekranoplan!!😎💯

The Ekranoplan is a ground effect vehicle. The air punched down by the wing pushes it up. Should have watched it all, saw you got the GEV info

Hi Andy, interesting models! Bz the way, the difference between a blimb and a Zeppelin is that the Bimb has no skeleton inside ;-)

Nice un boxings! One version of Ekranoplan, the VVA-14M was depicted in the Metal Gear Solid game Snake Eater and had no weapons.The Lun has Sunburn anti ship missiles among other weapons.

Oooh, 1/350 scale… another addition to my growing USS-1701-Universe… Yes, the 1/350 1701 ‘Enterprise’ from ‘Star Trek TOS’…

I've got to get that Lun!

Nice!

I'm glad that lighter than air vehicle models are getting some interest. For a while only had older models of Hindenburg, etc. US Navy K Class blimp kits have been around. If these German WW1 zeppelins sell well, hopefully Takom will consider some of the interwar famous zeps - the US Navy types (Los Angeles, Akron, Macon), Graf Zeppelin, and of course Hindenburg. I think the USS SHENONDOAH is close to a Q class. That would be a neat kit bash (decals?).

If you want to know why Ekranoplans and WIG's failed take a look at the online photos of the engine inlet rings. Those are bird strike dents on the inlets. Grounding an air vehicle for three days for an engine change after every flight is kind of expensive.

I'm surprised they didn't have just one kit for the zeppelin and give you the option of minding the Ps and Qs by your adding in the midsection or not. I guess they ran the numbers and decided it was worth the cost of boxing them as two different models.

I’ve never made an airship model I wanna pick this up

More build videos and more new kits. Life is good.

I think airships were originally officially classified as "A-Rigid" or "B-Limp", so the ones without a framework came to be known as "Blimps".

Cool subject matter but I’m really waiting for the review of the Takom 1/35 Yamato 15.5mm gun turret. Never in a million years would I have guessed that.

Been waiting for that zeppelin and the flak towers! Have you seen miniart and takoms new Stug G and StuH42 kit's? They will be Very nice! And all takoms dry Dock 1/700 kits uss Frank Fort etc so cool what's coming out!

I'd like to see an accompanying kit w the gondola engines and bombs, maybe 1/16 or 1/35 scale

Interesting

Kirov reporting!

So will we get 1/350 scale biplanes now? Would I use hair for rigging?

Hi all, I was hoping to find an old kit - around the mid 70s when I wanted to build it - and I know that some 'historic' or 'antique' kits can still be found around on the digital marketplace. Can someone point me in the direction of where I might have the best shot at finding older kits (unmade of course)?

Blimps are unsupported gas bag comes from class b limp (a common class when developed) as without gas the gas cell is limp

Cool! I love the Ekranoplans , (shame the concept wasn’t further developed using modern fly by wire technology etc), never seen a kit of one! ( fwiw in a ground effect vehicle maximum altitude is pretty much same as the wingspan I.e only a few meters.)

When are you going to preview the Meng chieftain? I have it and it's a nice kit.

Neat video, thank you. Never heard of this Russian type of aircraft before. With the zeppelin kits, looks like "weekend " builds? Good to have "led zeppelin " playing. 😁

Andy. Are there any plans to ship overseas for your shop?

namig of LUN is absolutly correct. BTW LUN is the russian name of harrier (bird).

Wow a Lun! Personally I think 1/200th scale would be perfect for the KM and the Lun. I wonder if any manufacturer would produce a Schütte-Lanz airship. I guess no one liked them haha. And no an airship is not a blimp you tank guy.

When I saw the Zeppelins for the first time on the Internet I thought: "That looks like a fun project!" But then I saw their size... 450mm+ is too long for me to display properly

The Great Caspian Sea Monster .

There are 2 classes of "Lighter than air" ships, A class, the ridged ships as these 2 models depict. the B Class of ships were shapeless or limp. It was A ridged, B limp. hence the name Blimp.

3 Models for people more talented than me with seam work. I would love to build one of the Zeppelins, but I dont think I have the patience or ability.

As a point of interest.. How often ( or if ever) do Takom, Trumpeter, Hobby Boss, etc re-release a kit ?

A Zeppelin is a dirigible. A dirigible airship is an airship with a rigid structure.

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I'm still hoping for another brand to release the Scharnhorst in 1/350 as i ordered the Dragon one about 2 years ago. Seems like Dragon is out of the game but there are no alternatives for the ship at that scale

The wife bought the Zeppelin....wink....

There REALLY IS a difference between blimps and zeppelins. Blimps do not have the internal frame that zeppelins have. That makes the difference quite substantial.

Marking in m18 are wrong! In Italy they had black numbers on a white background not yellow!

Blimp, Zepplin, or, lighter than air rigid airship

How about metric measurement

Those Zepplins look nice, but the seams your'e going to have to sand, why didn't they make the hull halves one piece

I think that may be the model of the last and only Lead Zeppelin ever produced, ha ha. Not to be confused by the group Led Zeppelin, they don't fly.

I called my ex a blimp, went over like a lead balloon! lol

Bro I'm from russia and thanks for the review Russian equipment

Anyone on here have any success with mig ammo paints? I notice a lot of kits now are recommending them but i can never get a good finish with them. The colours are very nice but the finish is awful and gritty.

Why do you keep deleting my comment? I'm not trolling. The Ekranoplan's nickname is "The Caspian Sea Monster.'