A6M2-21 WIP a la BH

[anadc4]

Re-reading my question about do you have a real Zero to work from, I did mean at a museum. Within 90 minutes drive of my house here in Australia is a Kawasaki Ki61 Tony being rebuilt to flying condition and 4 hours away is a real fully restored Zero, complete with the correct Japanese engine. I spent my youth playing around in the cockpit of a Nakajima Ki43 Oscar, the one that is now fully restored in New Zealand. So asking about a real Zero wasn't being naive or dim.

As an aside, in the same hangar as that Oscar back in the 1960s was a Bf109G. At the time it was believed to be the only Bf109 still in the original factory paint. It had been stored indoors since arriving in Australia during WW2. The owner, Sid Marshall, had a string of international visitors taking paint scrappings for colour matching. In a sign of those times, the paint sampling wasn't for people restoring real BF109s but for plastic modellers.

David

[Jesters-Ink]

Its just us boys being boys David. We should have been breast fed at birth or not in some cases, but its how we are 4hours drive in the UK will get you to just about get you to the coast in any direction, but the amount of cars to be destroyed on the way make it a most unpleasant experience. Worth a thought though, IWM London, Bovington in Dorset and Duxford in Cambridgeshire to name a few. All full of grown boys toys.

[anadc4]

I spoke in terms of time, not distance, for that reason. Australian distances are irrelevant to people in Europe or the UK. 90 minutes=150km. 4 hours=400km. Traffic? What's that? The last 50km of my 70km drive home from work is often just me and the kangaroos!!

[BLOWHARD]

Time and distance are pretty relative I guess, depending on the country and person
About the real thing, there's no substitute for seeing the real thing in person!
I do have this really nice one about 4 hours away at Wright-Patterson-

National Museum of the USAF - Home
I've shot photos of it but I haven't been there since I started this project. I should probably hop in the car and get down there!
However, like most restorations, it has a few inaccurate bits here and there.

wasn't being naive or dim

Neither of those possibilities occurred to me, I had thought it was a compliment by way of a joke

David, which Zero do you live near, Canberra? Darwin? Or is there one I don't know of?

[anadc4]

Canberra - if 350km is close

[BLOWHARD]

I think I'm there...

It just might squeak in to the Showcase once it's got the A-OK seal of approval and some good text to go with it

[Jesters-Ink]

Very very nice.

[bzhyoyo]

top job
Did you work with photo refs to make the rudder coming (it seems so to me) as a scrap job from another plane?

[Jesters-Ink]

Movables on Japanese planes tended to look slightly off colour due to their construction.

[santynus]

another masterpieces BLOWHARD