de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito
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An exquisitely engineered little kit which went together without any fit issues.
Primed with Tamiya Flat White,
Painted with ColourCoats Interior Green, RAF/FAA Yellow, RAF Roundel Red, Tamiya Flat Aluminium, Nato Black and Rubber [...]
G'day all.
This is the ubiquitous 1/48 Tamiya FB.VI Mosquito built as a 464 Squadron (RAAF) aircraft flown by F/O Jack Palmer and his navigator F/O Jack Rayner operating out of RAF Thorney Island while attached to 2TAF in October 1944. [...]
This is the well known Tamiya kit which I acquired at a swap meet for $15 USC a few years back. Another long term stash dweller who’s day on the bench finally came. There’s not much to say about this kit that hasn’t been heard by [...]
Part two of the Mossie double build, the Tamiya Mk.VI.
Not as happy with this one as i was with the 72md airfix kit, i think i over extended myself by stepping out of my comfort zone with oils. It was a learning curve, but not as good as [...]
The second part of the Mossie build just dropped! The photos went up the other day, but now you can see how the result was achieved.
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Part two fo the Mosquito Double build up on my channel, Kits and bit scale modelling on monday at 1700 BST/ 1200 EST - Link will follow on monday
Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust as i was about to start building the Tamiya 1/48th Mosquito Mk.VI, my father popped up with the Airfix 1/72nd Mk.VI. good timing for him, bad timing for me! This double build stuff is harder than it looks when you're [...]
Calling this one done. Pity the crappy camera never reflected the variation of the black although no pure black was used on the model. All extra work in the cockpit was scratch except for the Barracuda placards. The stowed dinghy was also [...]