Nice progress John , go for the final color hit , you are ready !

Camouflage on
After another round of testing I felt sort of confident enough to start painting lines on the Zero.
Luckily this kind of scheme does not need to be very precisely since in real it was also a random applied pattern of green lines.
After removing the masks and apply the decals, she looks like this

Fantastic result!

Weathering started
Spending my day off to full extend on the Zero.
The engine and nacelle and mounted.
After applying a clear coat and having it dried it was time to apply a wash to dirty up the plane a bit.
I used Vallejo pigment for that which I thinned with water.

Final bits...

Thanks my friend @johnb!

A few final bits done annnnnd...

Finished!

Big thanks to my friend John for inviting me to build our Zeros together!

Also, big thanks to our friend @wkubacki for his truly valuable helping advices!

Finally, big thanks to all followers!

Thanks my friend @lis

@fiveten @johnb Looks great guys, I like the contrast of the clean Zero against the land based field camouflaged Zero. Now I need to get started on mine. On a side note, in between working on my Raiden, I decided to randomly look at the Rufe kit I have, and I discovered that it comes with extra lower wings and oil cooler (among other parts) for an A6M2. So I'm going to see if I can fit the oil cooler and lower wing better than I did previously. I really want to figure out how to make them fit. Im also going to find some older builds of this kit to see if it's always been an issue with it.