Global Scale Modeller

Woo hoo! Finally finished this epically superb kit, one of tamiyas best. Hgw belts and maketar masks being my first foray into aftermarket, paint is mainly tamiya thinned with either x20a or mr hobby levelling thinner along with some vallejo and citadel, washes either Ultimate or citadel again with a mix of pigmment, pastel and oil weathering. Feel free to ask any questions, i learned a lot on this build and am more than happy to share.

The underside and pilot, Kato.

Love the paintwork and the weathering. That canopy is extraordinarily crisp. Love the figure too mate.

Cheers.

Yes the canopy is superb. Great build and nice colour scheme. Kato looks like my mate Graham.

That is a incredibly nice zero mate. totally top draw.I love the weathering, all the fine chipping and the pilot. really inspiring

Fantastic work mate!! Love the weathering and the pilot figure looks stunning!

It's a stunner, wonderful Zero and a fine pilot.

Nicely weathered plane ! Good job !

Wow! beautiful job on the Zero

Cheers fellas, just realised i forgot to unmask the lights, doh!

What a model, and what a great job you have made building it.

I really need to do a Zero. Have you done a Tamiya 1/48 for these? Good? Bad?

Just don't think my shelf would be happy with a giant 1/32 :p

ETA: the build is freaking amazing.

I hear the 1:48 and 1:72 are pretty darn good, it isn't really that big, especially if you do the folded wing tip option, that cuts a couple of inches off the width and this is the cheapest of the tamiya 1:32 kits.

Great Zero. youve convinced me i need one of these kits in m life.
Gratz on the build.

Jase

Nice looking bird ! great build !

That is one great Zero you built there John, she is a stunner

As always happy modeling and keep sticking styrene.

Paul

What a stunner. That's an awesome paint finish there mate. The surface detail is beautiful and the final weathering and staining is top notch.

Lovely job sir paintwork is superb!