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AFCBGeorge · Last edited by AFCBGeorge on Fri 10 Apr 2009 19:01 pm; edited 1 time in total

Thomas' progress will be reported here.

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thomasweir · Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009 17:14 pm Post subject:

I shall be building this.

thomasweir · Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009 17:16 pm Post subject:

I shall be building the RAF version. I found a pair of Airwaves resin mosquito wheels too.

thomasweir · Posted: Thu 16 Apr 2009 09:41 am Post subject:

I've started on the build. The beauty with using acrylic paints is that by the time you have washed your paint brush and gone to the fridge to get another ale the paint is dry and you can get cracking on with other bits hence the somewhat speed of this assembly.

Wings assembled and cockpit and sprues painted.

Hacking the nose off to fix the replacement nose. Airfix provide a cutting line for this. Ale fueled sawing never results in a good finish !

Glueing the fuselage halves and cockpit floor together.

Nose and tail plane on.

Main wings on.

The assembly has been straight forward so far with no flash on the sprues and everything fitting perfectly (bar the new nose).
The new nose is moulded slightly smaller than the fuselage so there is a slight step around it which will be solved with the old sanding stick.

thomasweir · Posted: Sun 19 Apr 2009 11:34 am Post subject:

Mossie assembled and first undercoat of HU30 enamel on. I've run out of acrylics so it will be a slow paint process.

Digs · Posted: Sun 19 Apr 2009 15:34 pm Post subject:

I like the heavily weathered finish!

Paul

thomasweir · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009 16:44 pm Post subject:

Its been a long war

Bob(K) · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009 16:49 pm Post subject:

Thomas you have done a nice neat job on the nose conversion. It is interesting how different this aircraft looks compared to the MKII that I am building, yours with new nose and fuel tanks looks much more chubby.

Bob(K)

thomasweir · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009 17:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks Bob

thomasweir · Posted: Mon 20 Apr 2009 19:43 pm Post subject:

2nd coat of Hu30 on. Masking on for the Hu33 and canopy masked for Hu64 at a later date.

hewman100 · Posted: Tue 21 Apr 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

If you're going to use the decal D-Day stripes Thomas, you'll have to remove the tanks!

Even if not, it'll be easier to paint them on without them in the way.
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Heinkel51 · Posted: Tue 21 Apr 2009 13:26 pm Post subject:

Cracking build

Brews · Posted: Tue 21 Apr 2009 15:03 pm Post subject:

You'd be better off using H116 than H30, you know.
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Hardtarget · Posted: Tue 21 Apr 2009 15:06 pm Post subject:

Or add a bit of black to the tin of 30; thats what i did and achieves the same results.
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thomasweir · Posted: Wed 22 Apr 2009 19:17 pm Post subject:

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The drop tanks will not come off so some daring do with the decals is in order.

Regarding the HU30, I usually use Xtracrylic RAF Dark Green but had ran out. I found an unused HU30 enamel tin in my paint box and used that instead.

thomasweir · Posted: Thu 23 Apr 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

Decals on.

As they were 15 years old the bigger striped decals broke up a bit which made it a bit easier to cut around the drop tanks.
Lots of decal fix was used to make the decals stick.

A few touch up jobs, aerials to add and a coat of matt varnish and it will be finished.

thomasweir · Posted: Sun 26 Apr 2009 20:57 pm Post subject:

Finished

Airfix D.H Mosquito NF XIX 157SQ RAF RAF Swannington 1944

Mixture of humbrol enamels and acrylics.

Like most people I had problems with the undercarriage legs and on one leg there is only half a cross piece left. The matt varnish seems to have turned everything gloss.

TimJ · Posted: Mon 27 Apr 2009 15:53 pm Post subject:

Nice work.
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Disorder · Posted: Mon 27 Apr 2009 17:38 pm Post subject:

Lovely job.
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Minty · Posted: Mon 27 Apr 2009 20:09 pm Post subject:

Very nice.

How were the decals?
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