need japanese zero cockpit pics!

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I also need to know the interior color because it does not look like the interior green that the instructions state.Thanks.

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Here are some superb shots of an A6M2. There are slight differences between Type11, 21, 22, 32, and 52, but the basic layout is the same. This is the color of a Mitsubishi-manufactured AC. Those made by NJakajima have a light, yellow green cockpit.

http://j-aircraft.com/walk/dave_pluth/blayd/blayd.htm

Hope this helps !

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My unfailing source of Japanese a/c paint info, the redoubtable Ryan Toews, a kind and patient Canadian researcher, who has pieces of the real thing lying about, recommends Model Master’s IJA Green (Not IJN, but the Army color, which is more like a greenish OD) for the interior of Mitsubishi Zeros, which would be all the A6M3 models. For the others, you’ll have to check your source. It’s hard to believe, but I finally had to accept it when he sent me a one-inch-square piece of real Zero taped next to a MM paint chip. The closest match would be FS 24098. And lucky me, on the other side was the transparent Aotake green anticorrosive coating, which is much greener than the clear blue we are being sold for wheel wells and such. I’ll send the mix formula if you’re interested.
And Pix is right. You can find Ryan and the other real experts arguing this really, really involved subject on www.j-aircraft.com. I’ve had to let go of many years of assumptions about Japanese colors due to new research, archive discoveries as well as new wrecks being recovered in the Pacific. A lot of the colors we take for granted as being on Japanese planes, like the light gray Zeroes and the clear blue paint that are so common among model collections and hobby shop paint racks, are based on WW II intelligence from early in the war that was just plain wrong. And nobody really got interested in researching and correcting any of this until more and more Zeroes began to get restored to static and flying condition.
TOM

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Thanks,guys I really love this forum.!

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check around this site as well http://www.warbirdpics.com/

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Here’s another, colours are slightly different to most of the others:

I’ve also placed some pics of the AWM Zero here, although I couldn’t get to the cockpit of this one:
http://bandha.customer.netspace.net.au/