(Vicente Vazquez) writes:

Let me try to post an aviation-related message among this
rec.aviation.political.ihateyou.military messages that have taken over
the board. :-)

There's always a discussion among scale modellers regarding the
correct colors for IJN Mitsubishi Zeros. One of them is about the
existance or not of a color called "Ameiro". Some say it was the
actual color used on some Zeros, while others say it was not a color,
but actually a varnish applied over the original IJN Gray (or white)
that became yellowish with time.

Does anyone have any info on that?

I applaud your efforts, my killfile grows every day thanks to the load
of idiots posting in this group.

Ameiro was a varnish, and the name was coined by I think a post-war
writer. A reasonable discussion on this is found on the Japanese
Airplanes discussion board run by Jim Lansdale. Personally I have not
seen any carrier-aircraft of WW2 with this type of varnish, but plenty
of China war photos of early A6Ms and the preceding A5Ms show a kind
of tinge of yellow. Maybe the protectice coating was abandoned
early-war?


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G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan