Tamiya A6M5c Zero Fighter

Nathan Dempsey
Nice start & rescribe work.

Clifford Keesler
Great start. I have this one also.

Jos Jansen
Interesting mate...wanna follow this!

Nathan Dempsey
I like the green. What paint are you using?

Guillaume Blanchet
I have used Tamiya, XF-11 & added a few drip of XF-71 for the highlight on the panels.

Clifford Keesler
That is looking very nice.

Guillaume Blanchet
Thanks Clifford. Unfortunately the clear coat made the whole model a lot darker & I lost most of my panel highlights. At least the pre-shading still shows trough a bit.

Clifford Keesler
I wonder why sometimes the clear coats do that. I guess it has to do with the colors themselves. It seems to do it the worst on darker colors. My Mustang did the same thing, it's olive drab.

Guillaume Blanchet
In my case I had applied a very thin layer of J.N. green so I could still see the preshading. Maybe a thicker coat of paint would have reacted less. The result is not that bad, but I'll take this into account and add more highligths, the next time I build a Japanesse navy airplane. I have a nice Tamiya J1N1 waiting in the stash 🙂

Clifford Keesler
It still turned out nice. I even took mine out when you started yours, but then got hung up with the 109's and the F-89, so stuck it back in the stash.