Zero from the Skunkworks

[mclaring]

Tainan Kokutai A6M3 as captured at Buna, New Guinea.

[BLOWHARD]

No palm tree?? Looks good MC I think I've done that plane too, I'll check when I get home.

One thing, this plane has it's antenna mast removed but the antenna shadow is still there.

[mclaring]

Tx BH,

I removed radio loop in cockpit, added rudder trim tab, and removed shadow. Dang, I even added that palm tree to give my mediocrity the competetive edge. The Hokoku and tail fonts were extrapolated and then cleaned up directly from photographs. Currently working on other Tainan Ku birds, but only those ones for which we can confirm the color markings. As you're probably aware, there are a lot of inaccurate drawings out there from incorect interpretations of B&W photos . . . published in the 1970s onwards . . .

MC

[mclaring]

An A6M2 with raised wingtips . . .

[ratfugel]

and there's me thinking that the word 'bird' meant that it flapped its wings to help it take off

rat.