" Ozora No Samurai"

[Night Fighter Nut]

I don't know. If it were a matter of camouflage, I would imagine so. Perhaps check with Shinpachi?

 

[Wurger]

Kates from the Shokaku...

Undoubtedly wing tops of these bombers were mottled with the dark colour..

 

[Totalize]

i would try with a airbrush with a .20mm needle.

 

[Lucky13]

Looks like fun...

Cheers lads!

 

[Shinpachi]

I don't know. If it were a matter of camouflage, I would imagine so. Perhaps check with Shinpachi?

Description says camouflage painted on the bare metal.

 

[Wurger]

Well.. not one colour for the mottling but two.

 

[fubar57]

Photo seems to show more than one color around the Hinomaru.

Geo

 

[Lucky13]

 

[Wurger]

Photo seems to show more than one color around the Hinomaru.

Geo

I don't think so... In the pic below spraying around the wing Hinomaru can be noticed.

 

[Lucky13]

That camouflage will be fun!

 

[Wurger]

Uhumm...

 

[Lucky13]

A wee glass of some excellent Polish vodka my friend?

Looks like Hasegawa and Nichimo had the same idea....

 

[meatloaf109]

You know, I had always thought that Japanese model companies should be the last word on Japanese colors.
Until Tamiya made me paint a Rufe purple.
Just sayin'!

 

[Lucky13]

You weren't schmoking at the time, no?

 

[meatloaf109]

Actually,.....
I was.
And it was the good stuff!

 

[Wayne Little]

Shokaku Kates were painted in October 1941 during the training period leading up to the PH attack, they were coated overall with color I-3 brownish Khaki colour and then mottled over the upper surface with Dark Green, some aircraft having a squiggle like appearance while others a more dense look. The green was painted on the wings and the upper portion of the fuselage only. The White fuselage band had a narrow red pinstripe border.

The Nichimo kate artwork is in error Zuikaku Kates only carried Bombs not torpedoes, and had a dense Green only mottle on their upper surface.

 

[Lucky13]

Much obliged Master Wayne, appreciated as always!
So, the Kate in Shinpachi's post #25, isn't too far of then, or?

Btw, found this going through my SAM International magazines....

....gonna read the article now..

 

[Wayne Little]

Much obliged Master Wayne, appreciated as always!
So, the Kate in Shinpachi's post #25, isn't too far of then, or?

Pretty Close just take the Brown away!, originally the kates were NMF/Silver with Red tails, then the paints were applied.

 

[Lucky13]

Excellent!
Order paints and stuff this week, Vallejo's....decals for the Catalina, masks, oh dear!

 

[Wayne Little]

So you are doing a Shokaku kate right?