Crimea_River
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No idea. Did they have a motorized one at one time? Battery storage?
Hasegawa 1:48 Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero (Captured Pt.2)
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You could be correct Andy, the float didnt attach that far back so dont think it was a connection for that !
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fubar57
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Went through the Hasegawa kit instructions starting from the first A6M5 and its there from the get-go but no mention of batteries. I'm not sure if the fuselage differed from earlier variants but if they are the same, this could have come from an A6M2 or 3 kit. Anyhoo.....appendages added
Grant Barr
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Great progress 
Crimea_River
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Nice and clean Geo.
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Thanks guys. Last bit before the camp bus. The bottom of the landing gear was removed in the photos and I was just confirming this before cutting, I noticed that the inner gear doors weren't carried as well.
Have a good week gentlemen
Nice work so far George!
Looking good George, no Idea what that circled area was included for, as you said, serves no purpose what so ever.....the later newer versions of the A6M5 series don't have that rear "plastic' at all.
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Thank you. Still in wake up mode from nightshifts and will be starting to mask the canopies shortly.
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fubar57
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This will be on hold for a bit. Looked at the clear parts and the very faint frames and decided to get some Eduard masks
Crimea_River
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They are handy for sure.
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Masks arrived while I was in camp and I'm just starting to attach them. Once again I noticed a poor fit. I checked the packaging to make sure I hadn't ordered a Tamiya set by mistake but no, the header says for Hasegawa. I now notice that the masks are for clear parts G1, G2 and G3.; my kit has parts G4, G5 and G6....WTF!!!! Off to Scalemates..................My kit was a 1995 rebox of the original 1982 kit and contains clear parts G4, G5 and G6. We go to 2012 and find new clear parts G1, G2 and G3 have now been added. Odd about the part numbering sequence and would have been nice if this was mentioned by Eduard as there are 29 reboxings of the kit between the original and the 2012 offering that the masks won't fit properly. Anyhoo....I'll finish with the masks and amend later on
Crimea_River
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Masks are nice when they come with the kit but my cheap a$$ never found value to go out and buy them separately.
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Masks done and Tamiya XF-11, J.N. Green. I made gosh darned sure that I would short myself on the green crosses. Drying over night and then I'll add the cross masks and spray the white. One of the photos shows that the moving surfaces were only lightly sprayed over.
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Coming along nicely Geo
Lovely work so far George!
Crimea_River
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Cool.
