A museum quality masterpiece! Bravo!

Amazing work...really amazing..tkx for the sharing.

What a lovely build!! Thanks for sharing!!

Amazing build! I'm just about to finish this model kit as well and the only issue I had with it was with one of the flaps but got that solved after a coupe of modifications. I'm actually very impressed with the retractable gear of this plane and that it actually works. For me that was the reason why I bought this kit. Keep up the good work!

What an awesome build. I really enjoyed watching your video. Thankyou for sharing.

Nice. I want to build this before I die. 😎

I have watched this build video a number of times and I am not sure about the comments below. building a model is a choice of perspective and view, in other words build it the way you want, forget the rivet counters. thank you for sharing

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Sir that was a absolutely fantastic build, the painting and weathering was done to perfection, againg congratulations on a excellent build, best regards from Australia 👍👍👍👍

Wonderful !

Hi Sam, just finished watching you build the À6M2b ZERO loved every moment would love to see you build the flak 88.John from Aussie.

Hold on there, I say hold on there. 8:44 Mr. Color 127 is cockpit color for Nakajima built Zeros. There is a cockpit color for Mitsubishi built Zeros, Mr. Color 126. The Pearl Harbor Zeros were Mitsubishi built. The model depicted in the video is Saburo Shindo assigned to the Akagi is a Mitsubishi built Zero.

StudioSam, very nice build! I anticipate you having many many more subscribers by the end of this yr! That Tamiya engineering is absolutely impressive too! How long did you leave that Tamiya panel line wash on befor you wiped it? Keep up the good work!

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About a dozen videos here on YT how to build the Tamiya Zero fighter in 1/32nd scale. Somewhat superfluous...

One small pointer. In Imperial Japanese Military, it was considered to be treasonously disrespectful to both Japan and the Emperor, to allow the Rising Sun Emblems (Hinomaru) to be sent out in anything less than perfect condition. The Rising Sun was considered a Sacred Emblem of the Emperor and of Japan (Yamato) itself. To enforce this, Ground crews could and frequently were brutally punished for allowing such a thing to happen. (Often beaten severely, or whipped) The rest of the paint job was never an issue - Just the Hinomaru. They were often among the first items to be repaired, cleaned AND repainted at the end of a combat day. The reason most Early, Carrier-based Zeros had such good paintwork was the fact that they were primed and received several coats of paint and more of varnish (Salty air!) Land-based Zeros, such as the Early type 11, which had no navalization gear (ie Arrestor hook), were only thinly painted and wore significantly more. Army aircraft either were unpainted (Natural aluminium) or received camouflage over bare metal without any primer, and they wore and weathered very badly. But, that is a great job in the A6M generally. This is one Tamiya 1/32 kit I would like to do also, myself. There are photos of Japanese planes with less than perfect paint on the Hinomaru, but often they turn out to have been Airfield Wrecks & no longer flyable and left out to attract enemy fire.

The moment you started that idiotic weathering at 47 min everything went to hell. It all looked really nice before. Stop watching other peoples' horrible builds on YT and start studying some documents. A6M2 at Pearl Harbor were almost new, all Mitsubishi built (i.e. NO aotake in wheel wells!!) and Japanese paint was gloss and high quality.

I do not like the way you do this.