A6M2b Zero Lt. Fusata Iida, Carrier Soryu, 07 Dec 1941 [Tamiya 1/32]

[Alex]

By far my longest, most involved project to date.

 

Many people followed along and offered advice and encouragement on my build thread, but I would like to especially call out and thank Ryan (A6M) whose expert advice on all things Zero was immensely helpful and made this a better model than I otherwise would have been able to build.

 

I tried to up my RFI game a bit on this one by purchasing a cheap tablecloth to use as a background and actually digging out my old DSLR (versus just taking iPhone photos).  Perhaps for the next model I will further improve on this by ironing the tablecloth...

 

First some shots featuring the detailed innards of the forward fuselage, plus the folded wingtips.

 

 

 

 

 

[Alex]

Some more views of the "opened up" mode.

 

 

 

[Alex]

And then with the wingtips extended and cowling buttoned up, as spotted on deck prior to the raid on Pearl Harbor.

 

 

 

(the extended version of the wingtips has too thin a coat of paint on them.  I will fix this at some point...)

 

 

 

 

And one of the undersides, for completeness

 

 

 

[Brett M]

Really nice looking Alex, great work!

[MikeMaben]

Fine finish Alex Turned out quite nicely 

[Bobs Buckles]

A beauty and no mistake.

Congrats!

 

vB 

[Jan_G]

nice build Alex 

jan

[Miloslav1956]

Very nice Zero!

[dennismcc]

That turned out to be stunning Alex, well done, and thank you for the extended tutorial on the kit, it will come in handy.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[dodgem37]

Picture Perfect.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

[Johnny Cloud]

Splendid!

This is the kind of build that makes me want to open a new box and start a nice kit.

[Rocat]

Beautiful! I love it.

[Kagemusha]

Mighty fine, the finish is spot on.

[D.B. Andrus]

Bravo, Alex!

 

Cheers,

Damian

[Dpgsbody55]

Very well done, Alex.  It looks wonderful.

 

 

Cheers,

Michael