luftmodels Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Hello everyone! I'm new here. 🙂 Excited to be a part of this community!  I'm working on A6M2 1/32 from Tamiya and the direction #51 states that all "guts" and the middle of the prop under the spinner should be painted in semi-gloss black. I don't feel confident in that. I also found some evidence of silver color, though it is A6M3 (or M5). Extremely hard (next to impossible) to find the picture of zero without the spinner. Can anyone confirm or deny? I'm totally aware of the correct color for spinner and prop (lots of info on that topic). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolls-Royce Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 (edited) That photo probably isn't a good reference. For one, the propeller blades during that period, at least for 1941-1942, were brown only on their rear faces. The spinner and front of each blade were silver (polished aluminum in the case of the blades). Museum aircraft aren't always a good source. Personally, I'd go with Tamiya's suggestion. Edited June 25, 2020 by Rolls-Royce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luftmodels Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Rolls-Royce said: That photo probably isn't a good reference, anyway. For one, the propeller blades during that period, at least for 1941-1942, were brown only on their rear faces. The spinner and front of each blade were silver. Museum aircraft aren't always a good source. Personally, I'd go with Tamiya's suggestion. This particular picture is from late zero, they had propellers/spinners in all brown since September/October 1943 and one of the suppliers for Nakajima had supplied spinners painted with aluminium paint. Quote Personally, I'd go with Tamiya's suggestion. I wish I could. Tamiya made lots of mistakes in the painting guide, I don't trust them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toryu Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 When the spinner is aluminium colour the interior face plate would also be aluminium, as well as the pitch mechanism. The back plate front (behind the prop mechanism) looks like either black, primer brown or Aotake (dark in any case). Sources: IJ Army & Navy Airplanes Illustrated No.1; Model Art Profile 12 (photo p.129) Â Cheers, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luftmodels Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 5 minutes ago, Toryu said: When the spinner is aluminium colour the interior face plate would also be aluminium, as well as the pitch mechanism. The back plate front (behind the prop mechanism) looks like either black, primer brown or Aotake (dark in any case). Sources: IJ Army & Navy Airplanes Illustrated No.1; Model Art Profile 12 (photo p.129) Â Cheers, Michael Could you specify the part # you are referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toryu Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 The part between prop and cowling Is the one with the dark front, maybe black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luftmodels Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Toryu said: The part between prop and cowling Is the one with the dark front, maybe black. Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. I guess picture got uploaded in wrong way. So here it is: Link Q25? Or Q23?  Edited June 25, 2020 by luftmodels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toryu Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I can‘t open the link without password. From left to right, there are: spinner, prop, spinner back plate (that‘s the part I mean), cowling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politicni komisar Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 For early typ21 ZERO : Â Spinner is painted silver, propeller blades rear tea brown, polished aluminum front with red tip two warning lines. Â I recently painted mine in 1/72 like that. Â A6M2 typ 21 ZERO Â Â Â A6M3 typ 22&32/ 52Â ZERO Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luftmodels Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 4 hours ago, politicni komisar said: For early typ21 ZERO : Â Spinner is painted silver, propeller blades rear tea brown, polished aluminum front with red tip two warning lines. Â I recently painted mine in 1/72 like that. Â A6M2 typ 21 ZERO Â Â Â A6M3 typ 22&32/ 52Â ZERO Â Beautiful work! Thank you. But like I've said in my pilot post, this topic is widely covered unlike the stuff under the spinner. Particularly middle part of the prop, balancing gear and other mist parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luftmodels Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 7 hours ago, Toryu said: I can‘t open the link without password. From left to right, there are: spinner, prop, spinner back plate (that‘s the part I mean), cowling. Sorry, I'm still trying to figure out image hosting options, nothing works right now. 🥴 But now I [think] do understand what you are talking about. Any ideas/thoughts on counterweights and end cap? Michael, would it be possible for you to post that picture from your reference? You know, a picture is worth a thousand words 😉  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovering Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Here is your image luftmodels 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luftmodels Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 7 minutes ago, hovering said: Here is your image luftmodels [image] Thank you! Highly appreciate it. I think it is time for me to create imgur account. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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