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Spanjaard
beautiful cockpit!

Clifford Keesler
Awesome pit.

Sebastian Meyner
Thx guys! The kit "helps" a lot. Just a little wire and some seat belts. The rest is OOB....simply a great kit! 👍

Igor Zdorovyak
I'am in.

Sebastian Meyner
Thx Igor! I see you're working on the Tamiya Zero 😉

Igor Zdorovyak
While he was building his Zero, he collected a lot of material. I will be happy to help my colleague.

gorby
Excellent job so far Sebastian!

Sebastian Meyner
Thx Igor & gorby!

Clifford Keesler
It keeps getting better and better.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Beautiful work so far!

Sebastian Meyner
Thx mates, very nice of u! 👍

I had to stop chipping for today...after two hours with a 000 paint brush my hands started to shake. Hence the blury pictures 😉

Sebastian Meyner
So...almost there. Just finishing up the gear & engine 👍

Miro Herold
total realistic cocpit.

Spanjaard
looking really fantastic. i only have a question, i am certainly not an expert in the A6M but is the color of the wheel bays correct? i have seen some pictures of real airplane were they are metallic blue. i may be wrong of course.

Sebastian Meyner
Thx guys!

@Spanjaard: U are 100% correct...at least for the earlier versions. I found some pictures of later models -especially one A6M7 in a japanese museum- with the landing gear bays in the same colour as the rest of the underside. Hasegawa seems to support that in their instructions. I honestly choose to follow them...because it was the easiest way 😉

Spanjaard
thanks a lot Sebastian, good call in my opinion. thanks a lot for the info 🙂

Sebastian Meyner
N.p. mate! Don't forget: we're building models, not originals 😉

Spanjaard
ha ha ha ha, indeed 🙂 sometimes i like to be as close as reality as possible, but with only black and white pictures of the originals, and museum pieces that you can not trust half of the times, i wonder why i do it 😄
in the past i was more "creative" in regards to camo colors and such, sometimes i still do

Igor Zdorovyak
Colleagues. The color of the wheel niches I suppose corresponds to the bottom of the fuselage. The blue-green metallic (AOTAKE) was used on Zero manufactured by Nakajima. Everything that stands in museums really does not inspire confidence.

Spanjaard
thanks Igor, i agree with you about museums 🙂

Sebastian Meyner
You are correct concerning the museums! My point is especially with subjects towards the end of the war it's all but certain what colour was actually used. Maybe Nakajima ran out of a certain paint, the workers involved didn't see the point in using a special paint for such a limited erea or the wheel wells were just overpainted during maintenance...and so on. I think that gives the modeller a little "wiggle room" for interpretation, don't you find? 😉

Igor Zdorovyak


I'm building a model, because I like it. In my opinion this is important. Seven Zero almost did not fight and I did not need a touch up. But no source gives information about another color of the chassis niches. Paint in the color of the bottom. I think it's right.

Spanjaard
it is right, if the modeller thinks it is right. even if there are pictures with one color, how says that they did not have some color at some point in time? 🙂 happy modelling!

Clifford Keesler
Looking excellent. I love the cockpit.

Igor Zdorovyak
Hinomaru, tinted constantly. Even on very worn out machines. Probably because of respect for the flag.

Sebastian Meyner
Thx Cliff!