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cowling color for a early Zero

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Posted by templar1099 on Saturday, March 5, 2016 2:43 PM

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Posted by Gamera on Thursday, March 3, 2016 2:00 PM

From poking around on the web I'm guessing a Mitsubishi aircraft though I'm not totally sure. With the green over grey scheme it's easy to tell, the Nakajima aircraft had a demarcation line that swooped up from the back of the wing to the tail plane, the Mitsubishi aircraft the line was straight. With the all grey/ame-iro aircraft it's harder to tell. 

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Posted by Bob H on Thursday, March 3, 2016 12:14 PM

The model I am making is Hasegawa 1/72 Zero and in the markings of Saburo Sakai. Would that be a Mitsubishi or Nakajima plane. 

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Posted by BrandonK on Thursday, March 3, 2016 9:06 AM

I use the Mr color version. When dry it is for the most part black. But when it's wet it does have a blue hue to it as light moves over the surface. But like I said, once dry its very hard to tell it has any blue in it.

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Posted by Gamera on Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:59 AM

Yeah, as Nathan says it's easy enough to mix your own. 

I read an article recently that claimed that only the Mitsubishi Zeros had the blue-black cowls, the Nakajima produced versions were just semi-gloss black. 

 

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Posted by Nathan T on Thursday, March 3, 2016 7:23 AM

You can also mix dark sea blue and black. 

 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, March 3, 2016 3:24 AM

Gunze has it in their Mr Color line.

 

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Posted by Ron777 on Thursday, March 3, 2016 2:23 AM

IIRC, it was a blue/black color...I think Aeromaster made it....not sure if anybody else has decided to make it.

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cowling color for a early Zero
Posted by Bob H on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:47 PM

Is there an out of the bottle color for the cowl of an A6M2a Zero.

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