GB-72 1/48 Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero - Pacific Theater in WWII

[le_steph40]

Username: le_steph40
First name: Steph
Category: Advanced
Manufacturer: Tamiya 89793
Model: Mitsubishi A6M5/5a => "earliest" production A6M5
Scale: 1/48
Addons: Only LifeLike and Aeromaster decals.

The kit

I'm kicking things off

 

[rochie]

Nice Steph

 

[talbot]

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent choice and Kit....

 

[le_steph40]

Hello,

The project will be one of the possible/probable? A6M5s flown by Iwamoto Tetsuzo from 253 Kokutai based at Tobera (Rabaul) and then Truk islands during February 1944. No pictures exist about this specific aircraft, so I decided to mix the informations taken by LifeLike decals (item: 48-061) and M. J. Claringbould in Pacific Profiles Five. So my project will be an "earliest" A6M5. These ones had kept the engine cowlings of the A6M3 models.