Tamiya Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero - 1:48 scale

The easiest part is that it's mostly one color and the engine cowling can stay off until everything is painted. So, there's no masking required, except for the canopy. And, I stuffed the landing gear bays with Silly Putty.

It doesn't show up on the video very well, but I did preshade before the color coat in order to give the raised panel lines a little more presence.

https://imgur.com/OeDTdBn

The next Zero that I'm going to paint in gray-green will also be primarily one color, but I plan on post shading in addition to the same sort of preshading. Post shading will help give the panels a little more color variation. I also intend to weather it more. My goal for this one was just a nice clean white Zeke.

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