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What color?
Posted by laddjosh on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:23 PM
Just bought a Hasagawa Zero fighter. Looking in the paint legend to see what colors I would need. I saw :
DARK GREEN (Mitsubishi)
COWLING COLOR
COCKPIT COLOR ( Mitsubishi)
PROPELLER COLOR.
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Posted by laddjosh on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:27 PM
Sorry, hit the wrong button. To finish what I was saying, These colors are for the Mr Color brand of paints which are not readily available here. Has any one done a lot of Japanese WW II aircraft who knows where I can find the equivalent color in MM, Gunze or Tamiya?
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Posted by MusicCity on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:30 PM
There are some guys here who build Japanese planes and can give you the exact paints, but my stuff is mostly USAF. This should get you started though:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_japan.htm
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by laddjosh on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:33 PM
Thanks Music City, I'll look right now.
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Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:50 PM
if it is a later war Zero then Tamiya Dark Green, Blue Black which isn't available in most brands but you can mix with like 90% black and 10% blue, or maybe 80 to 20 just see what you like with what you are painting with... Cockpit color for a later war Zero would either be darker green or RAF Interior green with a drop of black in it. Propellor color would be tamiya brown...

which model zero are you building? A6M2 model 22 , A6M5 etc... it would give us a better way to see which paints might match better.

there's a lot of paint research on www.j-aircraft.com and it will help you hit the colors exact!!!!

---edit---

this may help, read the thread... especially about US interior green with a bit of white added...

http://www.j-aircraft.com/faq/interior_colors.htm
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by laddjosh on Friday, July 29, 2005 12:24 PM
Hey Tho9900, The model is Mitsubishi A6M5c type 52. A navy model
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Posted by laddjosh on Friday, July 29, 2005 12:32 PM
Hey Tho9900, That j-aircraft site is great. Do you know if there is a site like that for WW II german aircraft?
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