Wingspan: 16.5"
Model length: 20"
Code: BW07040

From the Mastercraft Collection's Big Wings Series features BIG Mahogany wood desktop model airplane. If you've wanted a more prominent and dominant desktop model for your collection, then this series is for you. These airplane replicas are REALLY HUGE, bigger than you've come to expect; and with our direct factory prices, you'll get a lot more value and model for your money. Words and pictures alone are not enough - you just have to see and own one  for yourself to know how BIG these desktop airplane models are!

Now, the Big Wings Series has a BIG Mitsubishi Zero World War II Japanese fighter desktop mode airplane to go with your BIG F4F Wildcat desktop model airplane! In approximately the same scale as the Wildcat, you can almost see them going head to head in aerial combat. And just like the Wildcat, this BIG Zero desktop model is fully handcarved from mahogany wood and comes with engraved control surfaces and handpainted panel lines. Its attractive camouflage scheme is appropriate for the 1942-43 period, when the battle for Guadalcanal was at its hottest, and American air power proved its finest!

This model came only from the best Modelers of Mastercraft who's experience in making desktop models is over 30 years.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero ("A" for fighter, 6th model, "M" for Mitsubishi) was a lightweight, carrier-based fighter aircraft employed by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945. Its history mirrored the fortunes of Imperial Japan in World War II. At the time it was introduced, the Mitsubishi A6M was the best carrier-based fighter plane in the world and was greatly feared by Allied pilots. Tactics were developed by 1942 by Allied forces to engage the Zero on equal terms. By 1943, American and British manufacturers were producing fighters with greater firepower, armor, and speed and approaching the Zero's maneuverability. By 1944, the Mitsubishi A6M was outdated but remained in production. In shifting priorities during the final years of the War in the Pacific, the Zero was utilized in kamikaze operations.

A combination of excellent maneuverability and very long range made it one of the finest fighters of its era. In early combat operations, the Zero gained a legendary reputation, outclassing its contemporaries. Later, design weaknesses and the increasing scarcity of more powerful aircraft engines meant that the Zero became less effective against newer fighters.

The pre-series A6M2 Zero became known in 1940-41, when the fighter destroyed 266 confirmed aircraft in China. At the time of Pearl Harbor, there were 420 Zeros active in the Pacific. The carrier-borne Model 21 was the type encountered by the Americans, often much further from its carriers than expected, with a mission range of over 1600 statute miles (2,600 km). The Zero fighters were superior in many aspects of performance to all Allied fighters in the Pacific in 1941 and quickly gained a great reputation. However, the Zero failed to achieve complete air superiority due to the development of suitable tactics and new aircraft by the Allies. During WWII the Zero destroyed at least 1,550 American planes.