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ArmrdCharlie
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Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 10:35 AM UTC
I started my Hasegawa skeleton version this morning and so far I only have most of the engine almost done, but tomorrow I plan on starting the cockpit and those frames for inside the fuselage. I want to paint it in Tamiya acrylic but I'm not sure what color to use so does anybody have a recomendation. Also, the instructions say that it is all grey-green, but on the box cover it clearly shows two seperate colors for the framework and fuselage behind the cockpit, and the cockpit itself. Is this correct or should it all be the same color? Finally, what color should the inside of the engine cowl be?

Thanks a bunch!!
Charles
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 10:11 PM UTC
Hi Charles,

It depends upon whether it was built by Mitsubishi or Nakajima. Tamiya has their own Mitsubishi Cockpit Color which is a minty green-gray.

A wealth of info is available from J-aircraft, under Aircraft Interiors, specifically Zero Interior, a portion of which is here,
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"It would appear that Mitsubishi consistently used dark olive green paint falling into the parameters of FS4088/4095/4098/4102/4151 in the cockpits of the Zeros it built. AeroMaster Mitsubishi Interior Green is probably the best representative of this color although it could be augmented by the addition of some brown tinting.
Early Nakajima built Zeros made use of a gray/green cockpit interior that is close to FS 4373. Gunze Sangyo 50 Lime Green is probably a good paint to use for a "scale effect" cockpit gray green but to match the original color mix 5 parts Model Master Acryl Pale Green, 4 parts Model Master Acryl RAF Sky Type S and 1 part Model Master Acryl Olive Drab.
At some point, possibly with the change to the manufacture the A6M5 in early 1944, it appears that Nakajima switched to a cockpit interior color approximating FS 4255...."*


*Mr Grant Goodale, 4 August 2001
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