DMunne Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 There is loads more that you can do to the kit to make it more accurate but that will take you outside the realm of OOB. FWIW, the cockpit should be a shade of green very close to FS 34102 and your wheel wells and gear doors (both sides) will be the same color as the underside of the aircraft. Again, this is only for Mitsubishi built aircraft. Tim, I knew about the gear doors being the exterior color both inside and out, but did not know about the gear wells. The actual wells are not Metallic Blue? Crash BTW mixed the colors today. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 The actual wells are not Metallic Blue? Only for Nakajima-built aircraft Crash; for Mitsubishi-built aircraft, the undersurface colour is correct. The two manufacturers painted their respective aircraft quite differently. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad-M Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Hi, This is a 1/32 Tamiya A6M2 painted using Mr Springer's mixture, then weathered to show effects of salt air and lots of sun. Chers Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMunne Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 Hi, This is a 1/32 Tamiya A6M2 painted using Mr Springer's mixture, then weathered to show effects of salt air and lots of sun. Chers Brad Brad, That is gorgeous! Did you lighten the base color for a weathered/scale effect appearance or just use the mix straight? Crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Springer Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Howdy All.Here goes. These are taken from a Word document that I hand out when I give a PowerPoint presentation of Japanese Naval Aircraft colors.Paint mixes for some Japanese aircraft colorsAll mixes are covered with gloss clear coats.Mixes matched to the coating on the metal portions of the airframe of the Mitsubishi-built Zero flown by Lt. Fusata Iida to his death at Kaneohe NAS and to Zero AI-154 that crashed at Fort Kamehameha, Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941.Mix 1M(odelMaster enamels)100 drops "SAC Bomber Tan" FS 3420164 drops Flat White FS 37875Mix 1T(amiya)100 drops IJA Grey XF-1440 drops Khaki XF-494 drops Neutral Grey XF-53Mix matched to a cloth artifact from Zero BII-120, landed on Niihau Island, Dec. 7, 1942. Likely also to match cloth on control surfaces of AI-154 shot down at Ft. Kamehameha and BI-151 crashed at Kaneohe NAS the same day.Mix 2T105 drops Sky Grey XF-1915 drops Lt. Sea Grey XF-2520 drops Khaki XF-49Mixes matched to the overall metal surfaces of the Nakajima-built Zero shot down on Midway Island, June 4, 1942. This color would be found on all metal surfaces of the airframe, except the cowling. This color also found on some Vals at Pearl Harbor.Mix 2M100 drops "Field Drab" FS 3011842 drops "Flat White" FS 378758 drops "Insignia Yellow" FS 33538Mix 3T100 drops Khaki XF-4935 drops White XF-26 Orange X-6Mixes matched to a fabric surface taken from the same Zero. This gray color would be found on all fabric-covered control surfaces.Mix 3M100 parts "Light Sea Gray" FS 3630714 parts "Aggressor Gray" FS 362511 part Insignia Red FS 31136Mix 4T50 drops Medium Grey XF-207 drops Sky Grey XF-195 drops Neutral Grey XF-53Mix for the gray-green base coat found on the Nakajima Type 97 "Kate" attack plane that crashed at the Navy hospital at Pearl Harbor.Mix 4M40 parts "Faded Olive Drab"28 parts "Armor Sand" FS 3027726 parts Flat White FS 378751 part BlackBrush-applied yellowish-khaki coat over natural metal on Type 99 Val shot down in Middle Loch, Pearl Harbor. Tail code AII-251.Humbrol 187 "Dark Stone" (recent production)Mix 1H for 1/48 scale50 drops Dark Stone18710 drops Flat White 343 drops Yellow 154Early and late Zero cockpit color is FS 34095 made only by Model Master as enamel"Medium Field Green".Mid war Nakajima cockpit gray-green.Mix 5M for both enamels and MM acrylics5 parts Pale Green FS 342274 parts Sky type S1 part O. D. FS34087To simulate the aotake translucent interior coat for areas outside the cockpit, spray the areas with an aluminum finish. I like to use Alclad II White Aluminum. Then make a mix of:11 parts Tamiya Smoke X-1910 parts Clear Blue X-231 part Clear Green X-25This will yield a primarily blue color with a slight green tint. Spray on with a light color feed and stop when you are satisfied with the color. You can experiment with different mixes. Green has a very strong chroma so very little is needed. The Smoke is used to tone down the clear colors as otherwise they will give a bright "candy apple" phony look.Mitsubishi-built Zeros have their landing gear bays and doors painted inside and out in the exterior gray-green-khaki color.Early Nakajima Zeros have their landing gear bays in aotake. The doors are the underside color except for the interior surface of the central 'butterfly' doors that are coated in aotake.Cowlings, the areas of the fuselage beneath the canopy in front of and behind the pilot as well as the inner surfaces of the canopy frames are blue-black on Mitsubishi Zeros and black on Nakajima Zeros.Links:Summer-san's Kakiri 117 blog:http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/zerosenochibo/d...d=0&ctgy=30www.j-aircraft.comBear in mind that all of these mixes were matched to extant artifacts. Have they changed in 70 years? Yes, but they are from protected areas or were souvenired and stored away from direct light since the war. In service, all coatings weather rapidly. I am providing you with a starting point. If you don't like the appearance of a mix, modify it until it suits you. After all, you are building the model to please yourself.Cheers!Greg Vandy 1 VX 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMunne Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 WOW! Thank you very much for sharing this info. Today I should be able to get some "quality" time at the bench, so you couldn't have posted this on a better day. Sincerely, Crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Greg, thanks on behalf of the entire LSP community, including their pets and significant others, for posting this info. We salute you! Kev Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Greg, Thanks loads for the data and thanks even more for taking the time to post it! Barry Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Springer Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Thanks for the kind words guys. You are all very welcome! Cheers! Greg Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gojira70 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 That's great info ! I just ordered a bunch of Mr Color and Colourcoat paints to get this stuff accurate. It's overloading my OCD ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Glad to have you here, Gojira. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince14 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Wow, this must be a record for a necro thread. Eight and a half years - 3127 days - between posts! Welcome Gojira! Hans 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gojira70 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 On 4/26/2018 at 3:11 PM, LSP_K2 said: Glad to have you here, Gojira. Thank you , great to be here ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpk Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 (edited) Old thread. My response erased. Edited March 2, 2021 by mpk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Duly noted. Great information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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