Hasegawa A6M2 Type 21

Igor Zdorovyak
Interesting color of the interior cabin. Why so?

Bart Goesaert
i suppose it is aotake: aviationofjapan.com/..aotake-part-one.html

Tim Heimer
Ed , there are sooo many variables as far as what colors , which plant , what time of the war ,which ship , what island ect. Just do the best you can and enjoy it! other wise it'll drive you nuts! The Kates are even worse! Should you be one of those for exact detail colors I can give you some of the sites I used. Keep up the good work!

Igor Zdorovyak
There is no doubt in your decisions. Just this I have not seen so far. Zero 2 was built by several manufacturers and after 1943 used painting without preparation. But on the early Zero cockpit the AOTAKE-technological primer was still painted. Nakajima used it for wheel arches. But the cabins were painted with interior color. In fact, many opinions, but indirect. All the samples in the museums are newly restored machines. With interest I will look after your construction. Sincerely.

Norm Sheppard
About 5 years ago, I visited a vintage aircraft restorer in Fort Collins Colorado, who was working on an original A6M3 Type 32 which was salvaged from a Pacific Island. They saved all of the original parts and inside the cockpit, some were painted with the strange Japanese blue-green primer, and some had the cockpit green as well. It appeared to me that the blue-green was on almost all interior surfaces and the other colour was sprayed over it. But some cockpit parts remained in blue-green. I say, do what feels right!