I'm sure that right about now, your mind is filled with thoughts of the Uhu.
Or perhaps your sight is preoccupied 24/7 by visions of the Uhu, flying about right before your eyes.

My sincerest sympathies. Please bear with this state of being just a little while longer!

After all, this is me writing this – I, who as usual, from morning until evening, no matter what I see and no matter what I think about, am afflicted to near torment as everything begins to resemble some portion or part of the SWS Uhu. Or rather, on the contrary, perhaps I should regard it as a pleasure instead?! And so I enjoyably pass my days.

I want to have the 1/32 Uhu finished as an SWS kit and send it openly out into the world as soon as possible, but even now as we are in the final stage of kit development, I have discovered a section of the kit that I wish to improve no matter what. As a result, there is a possibility that the sales availability of the Uhu may be slightly delayed.

Now, for the SWS Uhu, in order to completely recreate that unique shape which is so complicated and mysterious, we had to use a sliding metal mold technique for many sections.

That method worked well for the majority of parts, so development was progressing well, but when we came to the final stage, it was the strangest thing – the leading edge of the canopy section, the most conspicuous part of our Uhu recreation, appeared to have been cast into a shape that we had not intended for that mold.

For SWS development, we use the actual aircraft as the foundation to plan and execute the most beautiful design we can, as close to our many reference photos as possible. We faithfully followed that design to produce the metal molds, but this time, due to a peculiarity in the upper half of the metal mold used to recreate the complex curves of the unique Uhu, the curves of the upper and lower edges of the critical canopy part ended up being cast in shapes slightly more pointy than originally designed.
(If you are one of the people who viewed the finished prototype model at the SWS Regular Meeting or other occasions, it may be that, just like myself, you already bore concerns regarding this section.)

And thus, due to the nature of my personality, I reached the conclusion that there was no way that we could possibly offer this kit for sale as it was. (My sincerest apologies to everyone who already pre-ordered!!)

As a result, we wiped the slate clean on the metal mold for the canopy, and once again used our reference pictures of the actual aircraft to remake the part from scratch. (Boohoohoo...)

When I think of all of the time and effort, as well as great cost, that we had already invested, I feel truly heartbreaken. However, this kit is literally epic in scale, and whether it's simply as a scale model, or as a symbol of our challenge for the title of greatest aircraft model ever, it will surely make its mark on history – it's no time for trifling indecision!

Even if we are struck by a storm of boos, we must show our Zoukei-mura spirit!

That's right!! Everything is my fault!!

And so it came to be that the surfaced parts for the new canopy are displayed before you in the photos above.

What do you think?!
With this, we have achieved a canopy nearly approximate to that of the actual aircraft that we researched.
From here, we will once again produce new metal molds for the kit.

Due to these circumstances, and this is ultimately only an estimate, I anticipate that the expected release date will be delayed by approximately two weeks.

Goodness. If you are someone who has researched actual airplanes, then this is something that you have already known for a while, but in the confined (?) space within a museum, it becomes necessary to photograph huge structures such as airplanes from a very short distance away. No matter how we tried, we were forced to take pictures from very close to our subject, and whether it's a subtle distortion due to the camera lens, or just a different perspective from the human eye, the photographed object came to differ in appearance from the actual object.

I say the following being already prepared for misunderstandings: if you want to take a picture of a model that was produced in 1/32 scale under the same conditions in which you took a picture of the actual aircraft, then, just like with the aircraft itself, it becomes necessary (?) to take the picture with a tiny camera that has been reduced to 1/32 scale (if such a thing even exists in this world).

Particularly if your subject is a mass of eccentric design like the Uhu, it's not unusual for shapes to look different no matter how many pictures you take, and it can only be called a hard nut to crack stuck in a pile of hard nuts!

Therefore, although the Development Team takes an extensive number of photos from as many different angles as possible, the reality is that there is naturally a limit to the range of photos that we can take.