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Zero Akagi-sen diorama
An amazing scene of the Akagi deck and island all scratch built with two 1/48th scale Mitsubishi A6M Reisen Zeke, the full aircraft is that of A6M2 Model 21 belonging to the Akagi’s air group. The aircraft was flown by Lt. Cdr Shigeru Itaya during the first wave of attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
The finished A6M2 Mitsubishi Zero flown by Hirano Takashi during the Pearl Harbor attack. This Hasegawa 1/48 model will be part of a bigger diorama which will be depicting the Akagi carrier island and part of its deck.
Scratch Deck and Island from modeling friend Panagiotis Koubetsos.
Wrecked Japanese zero