Plumbum Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I started this back in March and set it aside. I am going to now finish it while I wait on my F-4B Phantom project now stalled out. This plane will be a 2 tone scheme, gray over green. The "gray" is actually more of an aotake color, a tannish color. I am using the kit decals and will leave the canopy open. I have the bottom painted and am now finishing up masking to do the upper dark green color. Here is how the kit evolved to now.---John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Here is the masking and painting for the bottom color and now the masking for the top color.---John 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey-1980 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Fantastic start! Love the detail in the cockpit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Thanks, I just painted the topside dark green. Before I painted it I transferred some marks on the wings where the "wheels down" indicators rods will go. I took the dimensions and location off my old trusty Tamiya 1/48 A6M2 PH Zero. I often wondered why Hasegawa never gave these on their Zeros. When it's all dried up I will take off the masks and scratch build the fore mentioned indicator rods.---John 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Masks off.---John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Wheels and gear doors on, engine installed and I just put the yellow leading edge wing decals on. I had some old 1/48 Tamiya A6M2 decals and they had leading edge yellow stripes so I decided to try them, too lazy to paint. They look pretty good, they were old so I had to do some patching but it looks acceptable to my eye.---John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Fast work! What paints did you use? That J3 ash grey for instance.. (Aotake is the name for the interior protective coating - that blue-green semi-metallic stuff). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 You are right, I meant ameiro NOT aotake, had a "senior moment". I used Tamiya TS-68 wooden deck tan for the tannish ameiro bottom color and Tamiya AS-21 dark green 2 IJN for the upper color. Aotake was called "the blue bamboo color" as I remember when I built my first Tamiya 1/48 A6M2 in the early 90s.---John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I scratch built the landing gear position rods for the top of the wings from .020" plastic card. Now to paint them red.---John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Done, I think the gloss cote should be set up good enough to start decaling this weekend. Florida humidity and Testors glosscote don't mix. I did not gain much by moving to Florida after retiring except I don't really miss shoveling 3 foot snow storms.---John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 The decals are done, prop and cowl on. I need to add the mid canopy, antenna mast, pitot tube, gun barrels to the front fuselage then dullcote and add the antenna wire.---John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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