Tamiya Zero -Finished (Photos)

Looks sharp. Well done.

Mike

Nice looking model. Don't get me wrong, but wasn't that 'interior blue' a bit less 'electric'..?

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Looks pretty cool, I like the scheme you chose. Something a bit different is always nice!


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Nice lookin' plane!

I can't put my finger on what color the prop is though? Looks...kinda...brassy/rust...dunno...it's a cool effect though.

That's a brownish color that the Japs used for their props, I think it was only used on IJN aircraft, though. Not totally sure...

Kinda funny this comes up, just the other day we were having a discussion over here about Hasegawa's instructions calling out colors like "cowl color" and "propeller color" with no mention as to what these colors actually are.

Well, if you want to paint the propeller, I guess, logically, it'd be painted... uh... propeller color. Right? So it does make sense after all... right? Uh...


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QUOTE: Originally posted by garyfo Nice lookin' plane! I can't put my finger on what color the prop is though? Looks...kinda...brassy/rust...dunno...it's a cool effect though.

That is Aeromaster Red Brown Primer for the IJN prop color I used. I have a little of it left. I used to use Panzer Red/Brown before.

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QUOTE: Originally posted by djmodels1999 Nice looking model. Don't get me wrong, but wasn't that 'interior blue' a bit less 'electric'..?

You get the cookie!, Acutally it is Gunze interior blue, and it does look to blue, or acutally to bright. It should have a little more green in it and toned down.


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As I understand it the prop blades were painted in some sort of red oxide paint, somewhere between Revell #37 & Humbroll #113. I'm building two zero's at the moment. The Tamiya A6m2 & an ancient Monogram A6m5 both 1/48th. luckily my friend has the 1/32nd Tamiya A6m5 (unbuilt) so I can check that for details, and that does look like a nice kit to build.

Very nicely done! Blackwolf is correct-excellent paint scheme. From the photos it looks as though you did an very good job of eliminating scale effect.

Very Nice Work!!

Looks great! From what I can see, all of the colors seem "right on".

I would like to comment about the metallic blue-green interior color that has been criticised. This was a transparent primer used for salt-water corrosion protection called "aotake". Aotake translates as "blue bamboo" or "young bamboo" or "green bamboo". Mr. Robert C. Mikesh, author of "Japanese Aircraft Interiors 1940-1945", states: "Encounters with aotake in protected areas such as under tightly riveted pieces of metal reveal a deep transparent blue. In areas where long exposure has occurred, aotake is much lighter and greener....Therefore, when simulating it for whatever purpose---if it looks right, it is right."

I am assuming that the green camouflage and the red-brown primer spinner & prop were applied in the field. This early mod. of the Zero would have been supplied by the factory in overall light gray and the prop & spinner in natural or polished aluminum.

Pete