A6M2 Type 21 Zero (Tamiya)

The small chip by the left wingtip is an actual metal skin fragment taken from the wreckage of Lt. Fusata Iida's aircraft shot down at Pearl Harbor 7 Dec. 1941. The other chips are paint mix experiments made attempting to match the fragment of Lt. Iida's aircraft. The skin fragment belongs to and paint matching work was done by Greg Springer.