"IJN airplane colors" Topic
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| VA Wargamer | 29 Dec 2011 3:01 p.m. PST |
I am looking for paint colors to use for Zeros, Kates, and Vals in 1942. Would prefer to use vallejo paints. Thanks, Greg |
| Sundance | 29 Dec 2011 10:13 p.m. PST |
Most were still in plain flat aluminum, however, I don't like the Vallejo flat aluminum. It isn't flat aluminum – it's light grey. Personally I'd go with Tamiya's aluminum. Some of them appear to have been painted white or a light, light grey, so you could go that route also. I did some in the flat aluminum and some just plain white. Once you put the recognition/campaign stripes on them they look fine. It appears that it was summer '43 when they went to the green/flat aluminum scheme. |
| highlandcatfrog | 30 Dec 2011 10:29 a.m. PST |
Sorry Sundance, but the JNAF went away from natural metal around the time the Zero was introduced. Certainly by Pearl Harbor all of the JNAF planes were painted. There are some good research articles on the paint schemes (concentrating mainly on the Zero) on the J-aircraft web site. Links to three of them: link link link I don't know what the appropriate Vallejo colors would be as I use Model Master. Take a look around J-aircraft and you'll find some color chips, perhaps they will help. |
| Oddball | 30 Dec 2011 11:21 a.m. PST |
Great website for paint schemes. Here's links for the Zero, Val and Kate.
Zeros:
wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/1039/65/12
Vals:
wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/b/1027/65/4 Kates:
wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/b/1035/65/2 If you are painting for carrier based aircraft it seems most of the Zeros and Vals were light gray. Vals were a dark green. Land based aircraft were painted green also later in either '42 or '43. The aluminum skin is from the paint coming off the aircraft from wear and tear. |
| Sundance | 31 Dec 2011 5:09 p.m. PST |
Everything I've ever seen shows them in grey or alumninum until late in the war. Ah, I see the confusion. The green paint job started in mid-43. They were painted a very light grey prior to that. The illustrations that I had seen, it was difficult to tell whether they were painted grey or left in aluminum. You're right about them being painted. |
| John Thomas8 | 25 Mar 2014 8:12 a.m. PST |
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