Since I've started building this Mosquito, I try to keep up with making Photographs along the way.

All the parts in an overview. Now the first thing which is not OOB is scratch building a rear wall behind the pilot and navigator's seat, as the kit leaves it all empty. With help from some Evergreen I made a rear wall and place to put the radio equipment, which is visible through the canopy, once in place.

I left the instrument panel as it came with the kit, since you will not see anything from it once the canopy is placed. The radio equipment is partly from the kit and partly from my left over parts box. Painted Humbrol interior green with Revell tar black for the panel and radio. Drybrushed very mildly with silver.

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Nice work on the radio compartment Ferry. It adds some details for sure, and looks the part.
I still have an old 1/48 scale Monogram NF Mosquito that I painted all black as a teenager. The decals on it have faded considerably, but overall it still looks somewhat decent. I have always had a liking for the Mosquito, especially the Photo Recon and Night Fighting versions.

I will be watching for updates on this one ... You may even tempt me to pull out a 1/48 Tamiya "Mossie" from my stash sometime later this year...

Great job my friend. It would be very cool to try and find out more information on the crew members.

Another small progress as I've been working to get my crewmembers painted. The Airfix Mosquito kit gives you two crewmembers. Unfortunately one of them is missing some parts of his legs. This is the pilot figure which otherwise would not fit in the front seat.

After some consideration I took the left over crew from my Airfix Boulton-Paul Defiant from the spares box, and found out that one of them would fit on the pilot seat with his legs. In my collection of reference material I found that there where a lot of variations on the uniforms, specialy in the early war years. I decided to dress them in the all RAF blue battle dress, black leather flying boots, brown gloves and flying cap. Ah offcourse it is 1/72 scale, and I'm happy to say I've still got a steady hand. A first for me was the use of the new oilbrusher by MIg. Very tiny brush and it worked well with the painting of the faces. So, the crew is now in their "office". To be continued. Tips, tricks, questions and comments are allways welcome.

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Only a small update on my Mosquito. First and second layer of black added. Masking of the canopy was challenging. But it starts to look like something now. Next step will be a thin layer of clear gloss before starting with the decals.

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More work done on the Mosquito. All decals, well there are only a few, added. I left it drying for another 24 hours before finishing with a transparant matt layer overall.

I had to make some adjustment to the nosecone before placing the guns inside of it. The original aircraft was a nightfighter allright, but not fitted with a radarsystem and missing the typical areals. I closed the gap in front with a liitle Evergreen rod, sanded in shape. Also the opening for the gunsight camera received a window. On the inside I placed a little square of transparant foil left over from the packaging of the canopy. Glued in place with a drop of PVA glue.

After the matt varnish had dried I made the navigation lights by putting a small strip of Bare Metal foil in place which I painted with Tamiya clear green and clear red respectively. The engravings showing the fuelcaps where make dirty using a little wash form Vallejo, whiped with a cotton stab. Exhaust staines under the wings and discolouring of the exhaust shields was done using pastel powders applied with a small stiff brush. Using light brown and light grey as basic colours.

Now some radio antenna wires have to be put in place, and a dispersal made to put the model on. So allmost there...

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