1/48th scale A6m2 "Zeke kit #61016. True scale is 1/50th
Aeromaster decals #48-159,True detail fast frames and wheels are the only aftermarket items used. Aeromaster acrylics applied to this unusual paint scheme.
That’s a brownish color that the Japs used for their props, I think it was only used on IJN aircraft, though. Not totally sure…
Kinda funny this comes up, just the other day we were having a discussion over here about Hasegawa’s instructions calling out colors like “cowl color” and “propeller color” with no mention as to what these colors actually are. [8]
Well, if you want to paint the propeller, I guess, logically, it’d be painted… uh… propeller color. Right? So it does make sense after all… right? Uh… [:p]
You get the cookie!, Acutally it is Gunze interior blue, and it does look to blue, or acutally to bright. It should have a little more green in it and toned down.[8)]
As I understand it the prop blades were painted in some sort of red oxide paint, somewhere between Revell #37 & Humbroll #113. I’m building two zero’s at the moment. The Tamiya A6m2 & an ancient Monogram A6m5 both 1/48th. luckily my friend has the 1/32nd Tamiya A6m5 (unbuilt) so I can check that for details, and that does look like a nice kit to build.
Very nicely done! Blackwolf is correct-excellent paint scheme. From the photos it looks as though you did an very good job of eliminating scale effect.
Looks great! From what I can see, all of the colors seem “right on”. [:)]
I would like to comment about the metallic blue-green interior color that has been criticised. This was a transparent primer used for salt-water corrosion protection called “aotake”. Aotake translates as “blue bamboo” or “young bamboo” or “green bamboo”. Mr. Robert C. Mikesh, author of “Japanese Aircraft Interiors 1940-1945”, states: “Encounters with aotake in protected areas such as under tightly riveted pieces of metal reveal a deep transparent blue. In areas where long exposure has occurred, aotake is much lighter and greener…Therefore, when simulating it for whatever purpose—if it looks right, it is right.” [;)]
I am assuming that the green camouflage and the red-brown primer spinner & prop were applied in the field. This early mod. of the Zero would have been supplied by the factory in overall light gray and the prop & spinner in natural or polished aluminum.