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Zero Hour!
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Posted: Friday, March 29, 2013 - 08:23 PM UTC
Steffen Arndt sent us photos of his excellent Hasegawa quarterscale A6M2b with added aftermarket details.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
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Posted: Friday, March 29, 2013 - 11:39 PM UTC
Hi Rowan,

Thanks for prepareing the photo feature!

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 12:12 AM UTC
Nice work Steffen, a very good looking build. How did you do those panel lines?

Cheers, d
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 12:30 AM UTC
Many thanks Damian!

The panel lines were just highlighted with an oil paint wash. I used a grey which looks pretty light in the tray but is still dark enough to show on the light grey camo (it is a Schmincke oil paint and just named "cold grey", to my eye it looks similar to RLM 02 in lightness)

hope that makes sense

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 02:08 AM UTC
Really nice Zero, Steffen! I think I also need to build another one. What paint did you use for IJN Grey? I prefer Tamiya XF-12, as it look very realistic to me.
Though I'm not a Zero expert, I remember, that land based Zeros (in China etc.) with non folding wing tips were Type 11 and those with folding wing tips for the carrier units were named Type 21.

Torsten
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 02:20 AM UTC
Many thanks, Thorsten!

I used XF-76. looks good to me and is a little more "greenish" than XF12. I used XF12 on my Ki.10 as it looked pretty close to the army grey to my eye.

As for your remark: I was not talking of design (this is a type 21) but of use. The unit was based on (is)land not on a carrier, thus there is little (no) chance they ever folded up the tips. Esp. together with flaps down ... but i wanted to build it this way and thus it is most probably not correct, but i like it

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 06:50 AM UTC
Love it ! I'm currently finishing my 1/72 Airfix Zero in overall Ame-Iro too.

Do you have any pictures with the Antenna wire added? I'm having hard time finding how to connect it and where.


Cheers,Sven.
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 07:00 AM UTC
Thanks Sven!

I left the wire off. I know it is shown on the picture of this machin, but this only shows teh tail and not the mast. So I have no idea where th wire is attached there (probably top)

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 07:41 AM UTC

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Do you have any pictures with the Antenna wire added? I'm having hard time finding how to connect it and where.


There's a great picture showing how it attaches on this page.
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 08:03 AM UTC
Hi Steffen,

Excellent work indeed!

I like the look of the aircraft with folded wingtips and the Eduard display base looks very realistic too. I hope to see it in Siegen...

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 08:26 AM UTC

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....The unit was based on (is)land not on a carrier, thus there is little (no) chance they ever folded up the tips. Esp. together with flaps down ... but i wanted to build it this way and thus it is most probably not correct, but i like it

all the best

Steffen



Oh, I see, so it's the same as with the land based Hellcats.
I will give this new Tamiya colour a chance. It's in their new smaller glasses, right? Half size but not half price, so to say ....

@Jean-Luc
Are you coming to Thionville in May? I'll be there for the first time.

Torsten
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 09:15 AM UTC
Thank you Jean-Luc!

You mean I shall bring the carrier deck too? (of course I will show all new models)

@ Thosten: yep, the new cups only slightly cheaper than the larger bottles.

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 11:50 AM UTC
Hi again,

@Torsten: yes I'll be in Thionville.

@Steffen: It would be a shame not to bring the carrier deck as well...

Jean-Luc
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Posted: Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 11:17 PM UTC
Hmm,

o.k., I will carry it with me, but you know it is not small (i.e. will eat up some display space).

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Sunday, April 07, 2013 - 03:11 PM UTC
Steffen,

Really great job of building this reisen. The Sakae 12 looks great and the cockpit is stunning!

The debate about color can be somewhat tabled by whether is Zero was built by Mitsubishi or Nakajima. IIRC, Nakajima A6Ms were greener. Here is an example (even with the antennae mast) http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/features/4501&page=2
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