Global Scale Modeller

Hope I'm not too late to the party but once the modelling mojo returns.........

I've got a few Tamiya mosquitos in the stash and I was tempted but I bought this last year.......



Airfix have recently changed their instructions to modern CAD style. Not in this kit.











And that's it for the build sequence. Reassuringly nostalgic (a bit like KP cheese and onion crisps and wrestling on the telly on a Saturday morning).

Two nice schemes round these off.





A big old bag full of sprues. Cheers Airfix.



Six grey plastic sprues.



On closer inspection. Raised panel lines!



Flash.









Nice one.

There is a new fuselage in here though.





Old wings.



New wings.



How cool?!

Two sets of transparencies.

New. I think.





Old. I hope.



This could be an interesting build. I love Airfix. They were the company that introduced me to gluing stuff together as a seven year old. Why have they supplied almost two entire kits? (Saved on packaging though as it all comes in one bag).

Decals and a pilot making a bid for freedom.



Reference material.



This scheme looks cool.



Maybe. undecided yet.

A source of inspiration and a very cool book.



Will be making a start on this in the next few days. Should be fun.

Welcome to the build Will looking forward to watching this come together mate best of luck with it.

Good luck Will, you'll be fine
I want them books....!

Cheers lads and thanks Nigel for hosting.

Some progress to report.

Cockpit went together pretty quickly and I got this done over an hour or so last night.



Going to need a bit of putty on this build.







Have decided to put the aftermarket away and do this OOB apart from some harnesses and a canopy mask (still need to check that out on the net).

Crew area primed up first thing this morning.



See what I mean about filler?





Fuselage halves were soon primed after a bit of filling and sanding.



Then given some lightened cockpit green.



Detail painting under way. I wish my new camera wasn't quite so good at up close.







Also got the engine nacelle interiors done on the sprue. Bit of a blank canvas these.





And the tail wheel. Interestingly, I read somewhere that the de Havilland works had a load of these left and used them for Vampire nose wheels..... cool huh?



Primed for now.



Having fun so far. More soon.

Good stuff Will. I hadn't heard about the tail wheel before, if its true it would be massively cool Love it

Brilliant Will

Cheers lads.

Just a quick update on this.

Crew compartment washed and dry brushed.





Will be adding Tamiya tape seatbelts as I want to keep this as oob as possible.



There are two clear parts that are meant to go in here as the fuselage halves go together.





Never going to happen. I'm thinking of glazing here with micro crystal clear at the end of the build.

Error in the instructions. Clear parts 185 and 186 are transposed so take care. Fixed using micro crystal clear thinned with water and run into the gaps. Fingers crossed they hold and don't pop into the interior during the rest of the build.





Time to button up. The fuselage sides bow out a bit at the front so I started at the back using extra thin and clamping as I went along.









That's it for now. Away for a few days then hope to take part in the 48 hour Battle of Britain build this Friday so back on this sometime next week.

Great work on the cockpit Will

Very nice work Willem!

Brief update on this build as I'm away from the work bench at the moment.

A closer look at the kit transparencies. I didn't realise that they were such a state until I took a real look.



You can clearly see bubbles in this shot.



And webbing on the nose transparency.



Ah well, fixed these onto the fuselage with diluted crystal clear.



Spent a while sorting seams out but some are still a work in progress, particularly the lower nose that popped open again when I added the nose transparency. A few untidy bits to make good as well. Had started masking up when I noticed the canopy was loose at the rear so carefully added some extra thin cement and taped it up and that's where I had to leave it.





Of course the pitot tube chose this moment to go awol. Surprised it lasted so long.















That's it for now. Back to this soon.

Great work mate pity about the clear parts

Keep going Will.... Its all looking good to me mate..
Nice recovery on the clear parts..
All the best Sir...

Nice work on your Mosie. The camo you choose looks very interesting. Keep up good work.

Apologies Nige, but I'm not going to get this done in time. Life and work has been a bit manic since September and my mojo has taken a good kicking.

I've boxed her up and will finish her at some point, if the threads stay up I shall post pics.

Congrats to finishers and thanks to those who have commented.

Willem wrote:Apologies Nige, but I'm not going to get this done in time. Life and work has been a bit manic since September and my mojo has taken a good kicking.

I've boxed her up and will finish her at some point, if the threads stay up I shall post pics.

Congrats to finishers and thanks to those who have commented.

No prob Willem take your time buddy and thanks for taking part.

Looking good Willem.