[Don Boose]

Dan --

I THINK I mis-transcribed the file name. It probably was Reikan_v14b from the beginning and I inadvertently left out the "b." I say this because I have been checking the Trotskiy site a couple of times a day and it was still the Ryusei when I went to bed last night and I found the Pete early this morning. Ash follows this pretty closely and can probably tell us.

I do not have any of the previous Petes. My guess is that this is an update of the previous version 14 (1.4) from 2006 with some subtle change in color or an accuracy panel line fix or some such. The list of previous versions of the Pete in reverse chronological order(which you get to by clicking on the picture of the airplane) reads as follows:

2006.12.17　v1.4　側面図等修正。 [Modification of the side view.]
2004.07.03　v1.3　微調整。[Tweaking of version 1.2.]
2004.01.12　v1.2　1/60。[1/60 scale.]
2003.01.30　v1.1　マーキングが間違っていました。訂正します. [The marking was wrong. Corrected.]
2003.01.25　v1.0　またも世界初、空飛ぶ零観。みなさんがんばって作ってな～。[Another world first, the Zero is flying. I did my best to make it.]


This leads me to believe that version 1.4b (v14b) is a further "tweaking" of version 1.4 of 2006.

As always, I stand ready to be corrected by someone with more secure Japanese language skills and/or knowledge of Trotskiy than I.

Don