Great work so far Wayne!
**** DONE: 1/32 A6M2 Model 21 Zero EIII-117 ‘Carrier ZUIHO’ - Carrier Aircraft GB
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ccheese
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Nice job on the canopy, Wayne. And, thanks for the dialog on the airbrush cleaning. I have a cheap "Air Brush" airbrush, and strip it every time.
Charles
Charles
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Mines a cheapie too Charles!
Painted the Blue-Black cowling today as well as the canopy framing and canopy decking....both the internal decking and framing are often seen painted in the light green or fuselage colour, this is not correct.
Tomorrow the overall Olive Grey colour goes on!
Painted the Blue-Black cowling today as well as the canopy framing and canopy decking....both the internal decking and framing are often seen painted in the light green or fuselage colour, this is not correct.
Tomorrow the overall Olive Grey colour goes on!
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Plastic Pirate
Ahhhhhsome.
Paint looks so clean, but that's because so much care is taken in the prep.
Loveit.
Paint looks so clean, but that's because so much care is taken in the prep.
Loveit.
looks great Wayne
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Thanks Bill!
Thanks Karl!
Thanks Karl!
meatloaf109
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Interesting. I am one that has gotten the details of Japanese aircraft wrong. I have an A6M2 hanging from the overhead right now that has the rear deck in grey. And we are not even going to talk about the purple Rufe. (I still like it, though.)
ccheese
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Really looks good, Wayne. As for the purple Rufe, wasn't that the one "acquired" by the French somewhere in Indo-China ?
Charles
Charles
Vic Balshaw
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Nice progress Wayne, it's really coming together now.
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Nice !
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Cheers Terry!
meatloaf109
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By golly, it does!
ccheese
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One of the modellers on the Guillows Model Forum has come up with a possible solution to the "purple Rufe" idea that has been floating around for quite awhile.
"All the authorities that I have read on Japanese WWII aircraft say there is no evidence that a Rufe was ever painted purple like the box art. While I was working on the sketch I noticed the markings on the tail shown on the plan (and the decal sheet). The tail number begins with the Kana charecter "Ko". This indicates that the aircraft was assigned to the "Koko Gijitsu Sho" or Air Technical Arsenal, the Japanese Navy's version of Wright Field. That means that it would have been a research aircraft and would have been painted an all over orange with a black cowl. I wonder if idea of the purple Rufe came from a deteriorated or badly exposed color photograph of an experimental Rufe or maybe a post war color photo of a badly faded airframe?"
However, I found one....
Charles
"All the authorities that I have read on Japanese WWII aircraft say there is no evidence that a Rufe was ever painted purple like the box art. While I was working on the sketch I noticed the markings on the tail shown on the plan (and the decal sheet). The tail number begins with the Kana charecter "Ko". This indicates that the aircraft was assigned to the "Koko Gijitsu Sho" or Air Technical Arsenal, the Japanese Navy's version of Wright Field. That means that it would have been a research aircraft and would have been painted an all over orange with a black cowl. I wonder if idea of the purple Rufe came from a deteriorated or badly exposed color photograph of an experimental Rufe or maybe a post war color photo of a badly faded airframe?"
However, I found one....
Charles
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