A6M2 Color Question

Good color scheme!

I like this one, too (thanks pzl66!).  A little darker than the one at the USAFM, but a very nice shade:

pzl66

The USAFM Zero, the photo of which I posted earlier, was found in Papua New Guinea, near the city of Kavieng on New Ireland.  It is believed to have been operated out of Kavieng by the 6th Kokutai, and later by the 253rd Kokutai.  However, it is painted to represent a section leader's aircraft from the aircraft carrier Zuiho during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943.

One of the several things I've learned from this thread and associated reading (I suddenly feel like I'm on South Park right now, for some reason ...), besides that IJ aircraft colors varied within ranges from place to place and time to time, is that the color of the fabric control surfaces often differed from the color on the metal surfaces, which I think looks way cool, but is also an additional detail to be worked out when building ... I am starting to look forward to painting some IJN A/C.

SoCal Dude

I'm about to start building an A6M2 Zero to depict one of the Pearl Harbor attack planes and I was wondering what the right color would be for the fuselage.

Tamiya recommends their AS-29 Grey Green (IJN) so I bought a can but the cap has a decidedly greenish tint to it. Is this correct for this plane or should I use a color with more light grey in it?

If I were you, I'd follow Tamiya's suggestion for the A/C you are portraying, absent historical info to the contrary.  If you want to cut it with a little grey, do it (it's all about what you are going to be happy looking at as it sits in your collection, and, from what I can tell, nobody really knows what it actually looked like, exactly).  I know I've learned from this thread that the colors of IJ a/c varied quite a bit across time and space.   I'll be doing the best research I can for a prticular IJ plane I might build in the future, but, in the end, I'll be painting it to please myself.

Happy scale modelling to you

*sigh...

I have too many aircraft on my list and I still need to do a Zero let alone which kit is the best well rounded kit. Plus my daughter loves the Zero.

I still need to get:

A6M2 Zero

Me 262 (one of the very few Jets you will ever see built by me - I only like WWII Luftwaffe jets)

Hurricane