Tag: Mitsubishi Zero

• Mitsubishi A6M – Part Three – Langley Bird

  

  The Revell Mitsubishi Zero has been completed. It is one of those models that can be built to the standard of the kit but no further. If you look at inconvenient portions of it you can see right through it. But if you look at it from a distance, all is well. The Langley reference…

  Dick Stein

  January 13, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Japanese aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  captured aircraft, Mitsubishi Zero, USAAF

• Mitsubishi A6M – Part Two – I’m In Trouble With IPMS

  

  Apparently if you paint parts on the sprue trees you are a bad boy. This was the experience of Phil Flory a while ago when he was seen to be doing this – he was taken to task by some enthusiasts in IPMS for not taking the hobby seriously. Seriously. The instruction leaflets, modelling books,…

  Dick Stein

  January 13, 2021

  1:72 scale, Japanese aircraft, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly

  IPMS, Mitsubishi Zero, Painting, sprue trees

• Mitsubishi A6M – Part One – Baggie

  

  Look at the yellow price tag on the Revell baggie kit. 50¢. A very important number when you were 13 years old as it was the amount of your weekly allowance. A salary-by-another-name paid by your parents in exchange for making your own bed and doing the dishes. As a valid salary there were no…

  Dick Stein

  January 11, 2021

  1:72 scale, Box Art, finances, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  50¢ baggie, memories, Mitsubishi Zero, Revell