**** DONE: 1/32 A6M2 Model 21 Zero EIII-117 ‘Carrier ZUIHO’ - Carrier Aircraft GB

[Wayne Little]

Cheers Vaughan, thanks!

 

[tigerdriver]

awesome

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks!

 

[ccheese]

A great finish on those gun ports Wayne.
Vaughan

I agree. Good job, Mate...

Charles

 

[Rogi]

awesome

+1

 

[Crimea_River]

+2

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Neat bit of filing.

 

[KoJo]

Excellent work!!

 

[Wayne Little]

Appreciate your comments guys, the filing has to be careful to reduce and shape the brass while not affecting the surrounding plastic...so now i can slip in the additional tubing for the actual wing cannon!

 

[meatloaf109]

Getting close now!

 

[Gnomey]

Neat work so far Wayne!

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks guys.

Next step, the Orange Yellow wing identification stripe, this new marking was introduced in September 1942 as a quick recognition feature.
Freshly applied to the Japanese Carrier aircraft the colour was quite vibrant, yet on period photos from October 1942 through early 1943 was quite difficult to see on the Olive Grey Zeroes.

The best image to date that shows the wide IFF stripes can be seen at the link below,

japanese aircraft - CARRIER UNITS - album 6

 

[rochie]

great progress Wayne

 

[Wayne Little]

Cheers Karl, thanks mate.

 

[woody]

Wave the wand and she will be done looking good Wayne.

 

[Rogi]

Looks Fantastic

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice, and thanks for the added bit of info.

 

[Wayne Little]

Thank you guys, and your welcome Andy, chose this one due to this often overlooked feature of Zeroes during this period.
Normally you would only see the yellow stripes on Green camouflaged Zeroes when this came into being in 1943.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Wayne, and I now know another 100% more about Japanese aircraft!

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm with you there Terry.