It’s Twins!… well, sort of?
Finished, last night and this morning…these two have haunted my workbench for several months, and at last they are completed! Both are Tamiya’s 1/72 A6M2b kit; one a Pearl Harbor raid Zuikaku machine with kit decals and the other a 1942 Rabaul based aircraft from Rising Decals “Zero Part III” sheet; otherwise strictly OOB. Tamiya and Vallejo paints. Many lessons learned and as many mistakes made. With the possible exception of the canopy masking chore, this kit really is a breeze to build.
Thanks to Tom Cleaver for colors advice.
I built them in tandem, assuming I’d screw at least one up along the way.
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George Williams said on March 5, 2017
Can’t complain with two for the price of one! Nice work, and the display bases set them off very well.
Craig Abrahamson said on March 5, 2017
As George said, those bases really compliment the builds….nice work all around, sir. (and, yes….canopy masking can be a pain in ANY scale – more so in 72nd).
Robert Royes said on March 5, 2017
Excellent duo.
Jeff Bailey said on March 5, 2017
An excellent two-fer! Thanks for sharing, Bert!
Allan J Withers said on March 5, 2017
Nice Zero’s Bert, well done.
Dmitry Stropalov said on March 6, 2017
Nice twins, well done!
Tom Bebout said on March 6, 2017
Good looking twins Bert. What’s your next project?
Greg Kittinger said on March 6, 2017
Great looking zeros! I just acquired a similar zero in an Airfix dogfight duals kit with a P-40B warhawk as well, and plan to do a Pearl version. I’m hoping mine looks as good!
Tom Cleaver said on March 6, 2017
Nice work all around. You got the Rabaul one quite right by getting it dirty but the paint not really mucked up – that early war ame-iro was pretty rugged paint. I like both of them a lot. Glad I could help.
Brian Scott said on March 7, 2017
Great looking Zero’s . I love the overall finish on both 🙂