Two Pearl Harbor Japanese Zeros |
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Article by Scott Ringrose |
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Zeros in the Theatre lobby about to be hung on display.
So, if someone from your model
boat club asks if anyone has plans, or knows anything about Zero's, should you
confess? I did and ended up building two six foot 'stand-off' scale A6M2 Model
21's for a local theatre, for a display in the lobby for the release of the
movie 'Pearl Harbor'. 'Stand off' scale means the model looks good if
you stand off a bit from it and don't get too close.
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What I decided to build were
not meant to be museum scale, but I was looking for something better than tarted
up Harvards.
The final assembly was assisted by two friends, one from the model boat club (Dave Seager), one from the model airplane club (Bob Stovel). In this picture you see a construction conference between Dave Seager and Bob Stovel. Look carefully and you can see the outline of the landing gear doors....these were drawn with a marker as were all the panel lines. The modest budget of the project didn't permit much more.....also any more detail would be lost when they were hung high up in the rafters of the theatre lobby.
The fuselages were covered with Monokote (RC model plastic film covering) and the foam parts (wings, cowlings and canopies) were brush painted (liberally) with latex primer. Everything was then primed with spray bomb auto primer (it's pretty close to IJN grey - if you stand far enough away!)
The gunpowder stains were airbrushed on with detail paint such asTamiya, Humbrol or whatever I had lying around. Hanging in the theatre was interesting, I would have preferred something a little different, but liability concerns (from the Theatre chain) kept me out of the cherry picker.
If anyone is interested, more construction photos available, contact Scott
Ringrose.
Scott Ringrose
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These two items that look like
rolls of toilet paper are actually the engine cowls. They are made
of foam. To make them you take a block of foam.....attach a stick
to it....them spin on a drill press and shape to to the desired
shape. Once the shape is achieved the foam is sanded smooth and
any extra bits added.
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Master
craftsman (snicker, snicker) Scott Ringrose at work.........ahh......ya.....that
would be me!! ;-) The wings of the 2 planes were blue foam
insulation that people use to insulate the foundations of their
houses. It was cut with a hot wire....then sanded to
shape.....simple but very effective.
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Dave
Seager and Bob Stovel doing final assembly
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