All that now remained to be done to the fighter was the airscrew, undercarriage and aerial.
Finished Mitsubishi A6M-5 Zero flown by Takeo Tanimizu of the 203rd FG, Kagoshimma, June 1945.
Finally, on to the Trainer.
This needed a little more work to complete especially Around the canopies, the extra pieces of which were cut from parts dug out out of the spares box. the next step was to paint the model, this was a poser as there are very few images of these aircraft available online and they are all awful. 508 of these aircraft were converted by Hitachi and the Sasebo Naval Air Arsenal from war weary A6M2 fighters and to highlight that I started with a faded Paint finish using Revell Aqua 68 Dark Green and then painted the rear fuselage, tailplanes and sections of the wing root in Aqua Black Green 40 to represent fresh paint applied after the conversion had been carried out.
The cowling was then fitted and the yellow leading edge and fin tip were applied.
All that now needed to be done was to paint the canopy framing and fit the decals, propeller, undercarriage, aerial and drogue cable.
The model was now finished.
Mitsubishi A6M2-K Zero "Tsu 406" of Tsukuba Air Base, Japan, 1944.
David.
David.
If you forget the past, you may lose the future.