de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito
88 articles
Here is the completed model of HK's rendition of the Mighty Mosquito B Mk XVI. I have read a number of less than glowing reviews as well as a number of equally glowing reviews on this kit and the truth as always lays somewhere in between. [...]
Now on to the cowls. After assembling the distinctive MkXVI lower cowls, I painted all the cowls to make life easier when applying the paint job, I wouldn't have to worry so much about masking the landing gear without tearing something [...]
So after having read the many fine articles in my references and online about how fragile and touchy the main gear assemblies were for this kit I decided to approach these parts very carefully and examine a better way to get these thingies [...]
Before I started work on this plane I went thru the instructions with a fine tooth comb looking for pitfalls and making sure I don't miss parts or placement. This gave me an idea on how I wanted to proceed. So I followed the kit steps [...]
So much has been written/said/shown about the Mossie this plane needs no introduction! The aptly named "Wooden Wonder" did everything it was designed to do...and a whole lot more. My first exposure to the Mossie was the intro [...]
Depiction: 605 squadron / 100 bomber support group.
Bradwell Bay Essex England 1943.
Pilot Leader: Heath
One of the aircraft that is probably on everybody's list of their top favorite aircraft of WWII, and what's not to like. The [...]
Lengthy coverage of my build by Airfix:
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110 page review: available upon request.
Yes finaly ready. It took me longer to finish this project due to the "real life" taking up much time.
Anyway I'm very pleased with the outcome, specialy now the base is finished as well.
It is build mostly OOB, only added the [...]
A warning, gentlemen: there's some outrageous and unashamed name-dropping in the following piece, so I'll apologise for that in advance.
Imagine that you are a very young man about to graduate from advanced pilot training at RAAF Base [...]
I'm not sure that there's anything left unsaid about Tamiya's 1/32 Mossie. She is big, beautiful, and generous to a fault. Having coveted this kit for some time (and not being shy about sharing this fact), I received the Mossie as a gift [...]