I'm starting the Hasegawa 1/32 Zero of Saburo Sakai (Yokosuka Naval Wing, Yokosuka 1945). The painting instructions have me mixing the following paints:
Cowling: blue and black Upper fuselage: blue, green, yellow Underside wings/fuselage: white, brown, black, yellow
I don't trust myself to get the correct mix in any of these and am hoping someone can give me a suitable substitute color from Testors or Tamiya (i.e. a single bottle that yields approximate colors to what I should be looking for). I'm not sure what these colors are supposed to look like, so any help would be appreciated!
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Don McIntyre
You might want to try here:
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You can order direct from Testors if you want. You'll need to scroll down quite a ways, but they do have IJN Green & Gray listed. Barring that, check your favorite Mail Order establishment (they may have other brands that will useful to you, too) or your local hobby shop (if you've got one).
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Pip Moss
in article 47b19e78$0$22807$ snipped-for-privacy@roadrunner.com, Scherer at snipped-for-privacy@rr.woh.com wrote on 2/12/08 8:24 AM:
One really valuable net resource is the Japanese aircraft modeling website, j-aircraft.com.
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They've done a huge amount of research, a lot of it centered on the Zero.
Here's the URL for the Research section of the site:
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If you read through the menus, you'll find an article by James Lansdale on Zero camouflage schemes. The URL:
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In the article, Lansdale gives the following FS call-outs for A6M-5 camouflage schemes, which were generally dark green over gray with blue-black cowl.
Mitsubishi: Flat "dark black-green upper and flat gray lower" (D1 over J3): FS-34052 (upper); FS-36357 (lower) Nakajima: Flat "black-green upper and flat blue-gray lower" (D1 or D2 over J2): FS-34077 (upper); FS-36307 (lower)
As you can see, the colors are slightly different for Mitsubishi-produced planes from those for Nakajima-produced planes. The easiest way to tell who produced the Zero you're modeling: on Nakajima-produced planes, the upper/lower camo demarcation line curves up to meet the front of the horizontal stabilizer; while on Mitsubishi-produced planes it goes straight back to the rudder.
Hope any of this helps. Pip Moss I used to feel cheap 'cause I had no signature.
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Pat Flannery
It's not Sakai's aircraft but there's info on building the Hasegawa model in the green camouflage here:
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's more details on painting other green camouflaged A6M5's here:
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Scherer
Many thanks to all for the information...I look forward to a few hours of research you've provided...I've gotten advice in the past from this group and will try to post some pictures of the finished results soon. I'm going to enter a few at the Columbus show this weekend...maybe I'll see some of you there! Look for the Polish 303 Sq Spit Mk Vb and a Yak 3....possibly a FW 190 A8 as well!
Cheers to all!
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