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First of all, I
planned to make my first Zero in 1/48 so I thought "Is it a good idea to
warm up first with 1/72?".S o I decided to buy this Academy kit
due to its reasonable price. My best friend "Tojo" (his
nickname), the one who loves everything about Japanese and German WW2
models (I think). So I asked him about every detail to save myself time.
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For color, I used
Mr.Color.
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-"Mitsubishi
IJN Dark Green"No.124 for Upper part and "Mitsubishi IJN
Grey"No.35 for Lower part.
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-"Mitsubishi
IJN Cockpit Green"No.126 for cockpit.
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-"Mitsubishi
IJN Metalic Blue Green"No.57 for gear bay.
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-"Flat
Black"No.33 for Cowling
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-"Propeller"
No.131 for propeller.
I sprayed it out of
the bottle and made it lighter by adding some more white and sprayed it again.
I made it out of the box with
some added details.....pilot seat belts made with Aluminium sticker (The
one that my wife use to fix her pot in the kitchen ^_^ ) and copper
wire. Drilling the hole of 4 machine guns.
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About details
of the Academy decals (for this kit) is not good but I used it, T_T.
I trimmed the decal rim with scissor and I had to add a lot of Mask Setter and
Mask Softer.
The very funny time for me is
making the paint chips with "Silver" No.8 added to some more grey to
make it not so shiny. I painted it with a very small brush while
opening the model book.^_^.
For the antenna wire I used
stretched sprue from another kit with black plastic from (Saving my
time for painting) put it over the lighter to make it soft and
pulled it after to make the wire, That's all.
Hope you like it.
BoyTG
Thailand
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