Great work! If you are interested there is a great book called "Samurai" about Japan's highest surviving WW2 ace, Saburo Sakai, who claims 64 victories mostly in the A6M Zero. It's his military autobiography but it details how tough it was to become an IJN pilot prior to WW2. He outlines how vigorous training, professionalism and high esprit de corps produced some the the world's best pilots Japan had to offer prior to and at the beginning of WW2. An intimate look into the "other side" that most Westerners are unaware of. He was in the same squadron and flew very often with Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japan's top ace, and gives much information on the man's personality and flying ability. Definitely worth a read. Now to buy the Tamiya Zero....

i wasn't normally a fan of ground vehicles but nightshift and your Sherman and M5A1 videos made me start building ground vehicles

Building Japanese aircraft is my favorite when deciding which one to build next

Outstanding weathering. Those land based zeros took a pounding from the elements like our planes did. You captured that and the in-the-field fee hand paint job nicely.

The longer videos are perfect, always enjoying them!

Bless the algorithm! I just finished this exact kit a couple of months ago and it was my first ever experience in miniature models. Of course it did not end up a nice as this one but it kinda makes me proud of accomplishing what I did without experience, tools and just 6 or 7 paint bottles to be mix by eye-balling. Wonderful job, friend. Hats off to you.

Nishizawa’s zero is a beautiful aircraft. You did a great job on this build 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤠

Love how this has answered all the questions I asked and was going to ask about this build 😆. Good to know it’s not just me who gets overwhelmed looking into the stash. Nice to see a weathered Zero like you say not a subject that comes up often but when they do they are normally pretty clean. Looking forward to the swordfish build.

Great Zero model kit , 1/48 scale by Tamiya , great work , excelent details and great painting and weathering process ! 🥇🏆👍👏👏👏

As for trying something new: I'm working on Hasegawa's MC. 205, my first Italian fighter (a fairly uncommon subject). It's got lovely lines, as you'd expect, like a cross between a Messerschmitt and a Ferrari. When it comes to picking my next project, I often open several boxes, sort through the plastic and aftermarket bits (or consider what bits I need) (and make sure all the decals are in Ziplocks), then look at my references and see what makes me most inspired. It can be a process, but it's part of the hobby for me.

Totally awesome and complete build! Great video and narration!

That canopy looks awfully perfect... Great skill, dialog and photography, so glad I found this!

Great job, mate! Wonderful your weathering on this camouflage. Great improvement from this Tamiya kit.

I'm about to get back into aircraft after focusing on cars for the last 20 years. You and Dusan of Scale Model Aircraft are giving me some serious inspiration!

Beautiful work, weathering is some of the best I’ve seen... love your current video format... very enjoyable to watch!

Great detail is always worth the watch, excellent!

That was a pleasure to watch and educational. This format worked and looking forward to seeing the Swordfish.

I love building IJA and IJN aircraft, it's my favorite subject.

Beautiful model. I like the extended format because you provide a reference guide all in one place. Really appreciate all the explanatory comments. So many videos on modeling or aircraft in general don't do that , just give you a lot of loud, irrelevant music.

Very nice work here in all aspects. I enjoy the riveting part of a build because it adds another level of accuracy and craftsmanship on top of an already great kit like this. Nice painting techniques and results. I will use your build as a reference for my build of this same kit.

It was so satisfying watching the cockpit come together

That cockpit is maizing. Great job!

Great work and very nice hearing the history also!

As a beginner, I prefer the longer video on a single airplane. Great!

Great job - looking at photos of JNAF and JAAF aircraft in the tropics they look very beat up - you captured that. Thanks.

Great video. Fantastic detailing, rivaling PLASMO. Lots of excellent historical info, too.

I don't want to swell your head any more than it already is but man you do some really cool things w your technique. Really easy to understand. Very easy going attitude and simple, plain explanations make your videos much easier and real than the guys out there counting rivets. A truly refreshing way of doing things. Hope I'm not sounding like a weirdo but I'd wash your laundry for a year to be your apprentice!! But I don't do windows. Thanks again for the motivation I've taken from your work. John M.

What a beautiful aircraft! Awesome paint job. I'm not that into WWII-models, but this one looks great. Well done, Model Guy!!!

Wow that's a stunning build. What makes your videos stand out is the great background information about the subject you build so we can learn a lot. About the aotake color: try to mix some clear green into clear blue and spray it onto an aluminum base color. I think this is the best way to represent the protective coating of interior surfaces.

I stumbled upon this video, I am completely AMAZED ! I ran a hobby shop in the mid 1980s, I've never seen anything like this !

I like the shorter videos because they focus on single area of the build. Foe its help full and I refer back to them when needed. Either way I relay enjoy your commentary and building of the kits. Keep up the good work..

I always feel that KZfaq modellers should build what they want and upload in the way that feels good to them. So whatever you do is good for me but i like the longer videos and if you feel something merits some special attention, then do it. Thanks for all the work.

Absolutely beautiful work done here! Thank you very much for this video. I really like the style that you are talking either about history of the model or talking about the different techniques you are using! Liked and Subbed! (Hope I got that written all right...) Greetings from Germany, Luke!

Great video of a very well done build! I am glad to see that you did not excessively weather or scratch up the Hinomaru markings. In the IJNAF (Imperial Japanese Naval Air force) the Crew chief and the Ground crew could be severely punished if the "Rising Sun" emblems were defaced/damaged or over-painted in any way. They were always maintained at a high standard as routine as an oil or fuel check. (This did not preclude the emblem having a number painted over it partly (As was seen on the NiK2-J George, also a naval Fighter.) I take it this Tamiya A6M-3 is the Type 22 version as the Type 32 version was the "Hamp" with clipped wings and cut back range (The Type 32 preceded the Type 22 in service and was not widely popular (the adoption of the designation of type 22 was to associate the newer version with the very popular A6M-2 Type 21) because the more powerful engine variant and lower lift of the clipped wings increased fuel consumption , cutting it range by over 160km. The type 32 restored the wingtips and increased the internal Fuel tankage to compensate and it also had features of the next model the A6M-5, to which it is nearly visually identical, which has led to many wrecks being mis-identified when found.) I am building a family of Zeroes, and have both Tamiya and Hasegawa's kits in the stash. So far the Hasegawa A6M-2 type 11 (China based, No Navalising) and 21(Pearl Harbour type), the A6M3 Type 22 and Tamiya A6M-5/5a. Still got a few - A6M-1, M-5c & c, M-6 and M-7....all Hasegawa options... to find. As well as the trainer and M-8 of which very few were built. Also, looking forwards to seeing the Swordfish - That would have been my choice too! For another Japanese fighter, I would suggest the modelling the Kawanishi N1K2-J/Ja. Shiden Kai (George)Google "the Battle of the Inland Sea, March 19, 1945" Where a wing of about 35 Georges took on 150 plus US Naval fighter and basically kicked ass! (The Japanese lost 17 Georges and 1 Myrt Recon plane hot down, the Americans lost nearly 50 Planes and did little real damage to their target, the Kure Naval Base near Hiroshima. The next day the Japanese counter attack took the Carrier USS Benjamin Franklin out of the war.... although with heavier losses. At that stage of the war, that was a major shock to the US Navy.

The model looks GREAT! good job dude

awesome build

A wonderful paintwork!

That is a stunning build, my friend.

Great video, I like the longer video format and your detailed explanation of techniques, it would help me if sometimes when you talk about references you could show them to give some more context to your painting.

That’s awesome what you did with that zero, you also asked how we chooses are next kits. Well the way I choose is by looking at videos of kit other people enjoyed and what I wanted to learn more about.

Brilliant work

Excellent work! Congratulations. I am re taking the hobby, after many years without working on a model. I just finished a ME 109D 1/48. With these videos I am learning a lot. Thanks

I'm so happy and lucky I grew up in the late sixties/early seventies and had a desire to build model kits because I wasn't athletic or popular and my brother-in-law was a display model builder for some of the top shops in the San Fernando Valley and would give me his older finished display models and let me use his Airbrush on my models then in Jr. Highschool my shop teacher was a model builder who won contests with scratch built portrayals of non existent models and gave me encouragement and taught me camouflage patterns and also have me some of his best models one of with was a WW2 Italian torpedo boat he built out of wood with wooden decking.

Nice work. Looks like a late war zero that's been through the mill...

Sir hi, I must say as usual a very remarkable kit you have made, its awesome, I like the painting.

That's one dirty FKN Zero. Nice.👍

You did a phenomenal job on this, especially the paint job.

Incredible job. Nothing more to say that hasn't already!

Your Zero came out beautiful. It's just what I would imagine a war worn zero to look like. The one thing I would like to see on your otherwise outstanding videos is a picture of the kit box or the kit number so we know what kit you are building. It would help when we look for the same kit to build. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos for us.

Excellent job! I concur with your assessment of Tamiya kits. I'm doing their latest Bf-109G6; right at this moment. If you want to mix your own Japanese metallic blue; you can use Tamiya clear blue mixed with either their flat aluminum or chrome silver. You can bend it to the aqua side by adding a little of their clear green. Thin with rubbing alcohol. Flake size won't be an issue. I wouldn't worry about over weathering anything late war Japanese. My late father was a WWII vet in the Pacific Theatre. He told me that at war's end hardly any Japanese planes had complete paint schemes. They were simply out of anything decent to paint them with. During the occupation he saw many planes and pieces of planes that he told me you could simply run your hand over them and rub off paint. I think I like your complete videos better. It helps me get an idea about what kits I might like to do, etc.....Nevertheless, that is one outstanding Zeke.

Very cool, and the narative too. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada

I like the videos in this format roughly 20-30 minutes, 1 complete build, and with some explanation of the history of the plane (or tank). I would have voted for the Swordfish too, a very different plane than the ones you have done (on KZfaq) so far.

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

I love the history you tell us :)!

Very impressive. Great commentary.

Really really nice , like it a lot .

TMG, Really nice build as always. I really like your video format - full build, start to finish and your running commentary about technique and/or historical information. Also, the way you display products/paints/thinners/ratios/pressure/etc in the corner of the screen is very useful in better understanding the techniques being shown. Overall, I find your videos to be very informative and very enjoyable. At any given time, I have several projects going, all in various states of progress. Knowing full well that I ought to complete some, or at least make more progress on some, I am known to crack open a new kit, perhaps due to some external influence or perhaps due to some personality or character flaw. Who knows? I don't know for sure, but I suspect that I am in good company. In general though, I try to fill in gaps sorted by scale, theater and country for my military aircraft builds and scale, era, country, class/group for my racecar builds and I will try to add a newly completed kit to the shelf every 30 days. Sometimes, I will throw in a spacecraft, tall ship, aircraft carrier or battleship or an HO scale house for my wife just to mix things up a bit, but this only results in another work in progress. Yeah, I think I suffer from ADHD or something similar, but like I said, I think I am in good company.

Excellent job, well done, I trust you are keeping safe and well inthese crazy times.

I'm building this same kit right now (08/17/21) and next in line is Hasegawa F-86 Sabre. Never thought about building a jet!...

Bless u , once again , a true master at work !!!!! Thank u ‘ model guy One ‘ Truly gifted and humble to share , bless you and Thankyou once again ! Keep safe and Godbless America 🇺🇸

That’s so beautiful 😍

I just started doing a 1:48 Airfix Stuka and I’ve had so much fun with it!! Paint work is hard with brushes tho! I love the look of this kit its great!!

Very good job!

Just found your channel from my KZfaq feed and just subscribed and turned on the notification bell. Out of this world detailing on this build. Great video, enjoyed watching and listening to your commentary. My aircraft interest has been and still is Post WWII U.S.Navy aircraft but I might enjoy the WWII aircraft. Happy New Year, looking forward to following your builds for 2021.

Finished my first Russian kit yesterday. Have already ordered another! Great video mate!

Great job!! Those swordfish 10min videos more focused on the build sound good to me!!

I ran into the same fit issue with the wing underside on their a6m2 in 1/72. The rest of the 1/72 kit was flawless.

this one this one! detailed film

A comment on the tailpipe corrosion. The napkin rings on my grandparents kitchen table were originally from the exhaust pipes of a Betty bomber shot down over Tinian. I remember they were always shiny with no corrosion.

Looks good, i like the heavy weathering. Greetings Ben

I like the stories pertaining to the planes, pilots, etc.. 25 minute long videos are fine

Great video

Great Bulid!

Nice paint work. I built the 32nd kit from tamiya back in 05 it’s a model engineering masterpiece

nice work.

I was thinking about getting into scale model building, but wow, after checking out some videos it seems so much more detailed and expensive than I first thought it would be. As someone who knows next to nothing about it, it all seems a little overwhelming. But, I guess there's only one way to learn! Great build by the way, she's a really beauty :)

Don't worry about the engine oil. Japanese engines were notorious oilers. Superb build!

Great build, now I have a good reason to build another Zero.

Wow stunning :))

GREAT JOB!

I did this model and made it a lot more weathered and even added bullet holes. I gave it an aluminum undercoat then two coat of Heavy Chipper before painting it. It's on Temporary display at my Local Hobby Shop.

Great model. My next project is to convert a 1.48 scale Revell B24D Liberator into an RAF Coastal Command Liberator Mk 3a marked in 224 squadron markings. My great uncle was an observer with the squadron and he lost his life in a flying accident on 30.10.1942 the plane he was in was FK 242 sqn letter 'K' king they had fuel trouble when returning home and hit a barrage balloon cable over Plymouth They crashed attempting an emergency landing and 6 of the 7 crew died.

Very nice indeed.

Love this video love listening to you also.

Excellent video, it's good one full build video like this, very informative, instructive and entertainment... I really enjoyed

Longer more comprehensive builds are most entertaining.

Beautiful work.!.I love Japanese aircraft of WW2.Your Zero really looks the part.Please consider building another Japanese WW2 aircraft someday again.Though the 1/32 Zero you mentioned will be a truly great build,when you get to do it in time.I like this video style you have made here with the zero.But build videos are cool as well.All the best from the U.K

Ships have always intimidated me; the photoetch more than anything. My typical go-to genre is armor, and typically photoetch is grills, tool brackets, etc. On ships, there's photoetch railings (the most intimidating thing for me) and a whole bunch of other stuff that I don't know the names of at the moment. Even some parts like cranes and radar assemblies are nothing BUT photoetch! But I decided to try at least one ship, and so I've picked up a Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Dreadnought (1918). It's one of the "big scale" battleships, but it's also not too big to overwhelm a shelf. I also just have this good feeling about it, which brings me to the answer of the next question and that is I usually wait for a kit to "speak" to me. By that I mean that I can imagine the finished product in my head, and I can get excited enough about it to keep working on it day after day (or when I get time, lol) and not get bored or distracted by something else. Great looking Zero! Looking forward to more build videos from you!

Italian WWII fighters seem to have amazing paint jobs and I would love to attempt one of them.

you're an amazing guy

Great vid with some excellent technique advice. When I comes to the next model I build. Some times I have a build series that I have pre planned and am working through. At present I'm doing a Series of Pacific Theatre builds. Other times I ask my self which gap in my post War Russian and Eastern European collection do I want to fill next. I prefer one hit longer build vids.

I had a plan to build all of the aircraft that were significant to me. It's lofty goal, especially since I haven't been as involved in plastic modeling as I'd like to be. Secondly, I prefer 1/48 scale and to my (current) knowledge there is no 1/48 scale B-52H or B-2A which I used to work on in the USAF. I'm currently trying to finish an F-106 that I started almost 7 years ago. It will be finished in 5th FIS markings. I never worked on them, or saw them fly, but they were once assigned to Minot AFB, ND where I was stationed on the B-52. My goal is to finish an F-4E II done in the markings of the Indiana ANG unit from Ft. Wayne, IN where I grew up as a kid.

I'm working on the revell 1:48 b-25D that they released this year and I highly recommend it as it has good detail and goes together quite smoothly

Muito minucioso esse trabalho, requer muita técnica e paciência, parabéns

I'm just doing a hellcat and I like your zero it makes me want to get one in this scale lovely work 👌

My tastes in aircraft are extremely varied. My favourite A/C is the Piaggio P.108B, but as rare as it is I am not holding my breath for a build video. :-) As for videos, I much prefer very detailed segments for builds. Focusing on the steps as in the instructions, with detailed commentary as to techniques, colours etc., and why you chose to do what you did. Another favourite is the Arado Ar-196. A detailed build of one would be very welcome. My scale of preference is 1/72 due to limited space where I live.

Wow....amazing build....extra detailing, paintwork, weathering and commentary! To answer your questions....I focus on WW1 and WW2 models (planes, ships and tanks) but haven't gone beyond 1945 so have been toying with some modern jets...any suggestions?? To decide what to build next I have an inventory of all my models categorised by genre, date of purchase, model maker (yeah, I'm a bit anal) and rotate through them...easy to decide which one is next. Will be checking out the Swordfish build 👍🏼

I won't tell your wife if you don't tell mine! Awesome job! Can't wait to build mine. I would like to build some of the Italian fighters.

I’ve built a couple of ZEROS. Not this good. I learned a lot. Saved this video.

Well i have been out of modeling for a while but want to get started again. I think i would like to try some under represented aircraft such as Soviet aircraft from world war 2(Yak 3, LA-5/7, MIG-3, Etc) or challenge myself more Japanese or Italian stuff and their complex paint schemes. I am also an Armour modeler and have always had an interest in the Israeli Armour (Merkava, Sho't Kal, M-60 Magach, Etc). So those are all some things i would love to try. Love your videos by the way! its sweet to see another Canadian model builder