AIRFIX 2023 MOSQUITO PR.XVII 1/72 scale model kit - how do you build one?

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  • @randytaylor1258
    @randytaylor1258 Рік тому +2

    It's hard to believe that the same Airfix that mastered the 1/24 Spitfire also produced this little gem of a Mosquito, and the Austin K2 ambulance. Airfix has been reborn and, penny for penny, is at the top of the modelling game right now.
    I love reconnaissance aircraft and the Mossie was the premium platform in Allied hands, even over the Lightning. This is a delightful little kit with fine details and panel lines and clever design and construction, including the wheel well masks, the ID lights jig, the interior cockpit and wing spar assembly, the tail ensemble, and the jig for the complex landing gear.
    You've brought out the best the kit has to offer, Gary. I haven't tackled a 1/72 aircraft in eons but this just looks like too much fun to pass up.
    Bravo!

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Thanks Randy - I think the spur for this is a good design team that is allowed to think in different ways about solving problems.

  • @joseluiscastanorestrepo
    @joseluiscastanorestrepo 4 місяці тому +1

    Magnificent work, Gary. Another great kit from Airfix.

  • @thomaslore730
    @thomaslore730 Рік тому +3

    2-words, "OUTSTANDING" build.
    "Thanks" for sharing this with us, Gary!

  • @AlanWitton
    @AlanWitton Місяць тому +1

    Great looking kit Gary I must invest in one

  • @GeorgeBrown-t4d
    @GeorgeBrown-t4d Рік тому +1

    Nice kit and build Gary. thanks for sharing

  • @chrisfirth1803
    @chrisfirth1803 Рік тому +1

    Another lovely build.
    I love the way the wings are used as a jig for the under carriage, how mantimes have we all got frustrated when trying to build up complicated undercarriage that fits correctly. Well done Airfix, more of the same on other kits in the future please.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Wish the same had been possible on the Italeri Stirling!!!

    • @chrisfirth1803
      @chrisfirth1803 Рік тому

      Yes that is one of the most awkward ones to build up, it would have made life easier with a jig.

  • @ronaldbyrne3320
    @ronaldbyrne3320 Рік тому +1

    A lovely kit and a lovely build. Many thanks for pointing out the potential hiccups to look out for. Nice to see Airfix improving its products. Looking forward to more of such kits.

  • @roopeshkrishna34
    @roopeshkrishna34 Рік тому

    Wow..!
    Excellent build Gary..
    Am planning to make an imaginary airbase with three mosquitos,two hurricanes, refueling trucks,figures,ground vehicles and figures.. my plan was to paint the mosquitos in blue grey colour with black and yellow invasion stripes.. your work is too inspiring.. million thanks for sharing..

  • @alantoon5708
    @alantoon5708 Рік тому +1

    Wish that kit had come out about 25 years ago. I built a PR 16 for a diorama in the 8th AF Museum in Pooler, Georgia and had to combine the Matchbox NF 30 with the Airfix B IV to get the desired version!
    Painted it up the same as yours....but in the first attempt found that applying different brands of acrylic paint on the same surface did not work!
    Great job on a nice kit.

  • @srl17609
    @srl17609 Рік тому +1

    fantastic build as always Gary. I have the 1/48 Tamiya mosquito that I will now have to do after my current build.

  • @barrywalker8790
    @barrywalker8790 Рік тому +1

    Well Gary you enjoyed making it and l enjoyed watching you make it 😂lovely build everything seemed to fit as it should what more can a modeller want, great paint scheme really made it pop 👍

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 Рік тому +1

    Nice!👍.. our RNZAF operated Mosquito planes and we have Mosquito warbirds here in NZ🇳🇿✈️

  • @gtv6chuck
    @gtv6chuck Рік тому +2

    Nice work! I've seen this plane - it's at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      That's a bucket list museum for me!

  • @brettpeacock9116
    @brettpeacock9116 Рік тому +1

    Great job, Gary. About 20 odd years ago I used the Paragon Resin 2 stage Merlins to convert the 1/48 Tamiya BMark IV to this exact aircraft - NS 519 of the USAAF. BTW the smal forward intake under the engine is the oil cooler and the larger rear intake is the Supercharger intake.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      There we go - I *knew* someone would know the anatomy of Mossie Merlins! Cheers Brett!

    • @jaws666
      @jaws666 Рік тому

      ​@@garys_stuff you truly out did yourself on this 1 Gary....FANTASTIC build and end result.well done,good sir.👍👍👍🥂🥂

  • @julianmhall
    @julianmhall Рік тому +2

    Re the camera port; How about painting the inside edges of the transparent window black and the centre aluminium, a bit like painting tyres black and wheel hubs metal? That might look like a dark interior with a camera lens inside?

  • @ThomasDawes-q9y
    @ThomasDawes-q9y Рік тому +1

    Your work is excellent. I thought the Airfix plastic was disappointing but you did well with it.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      In what way did you find the plastic disappointing? I like to feed back to the guys at Airfix about things and I know this is a newer formulation they are using.

  • @soppdrake
    @soppdrake Рік тому +1

    Interesting to see a captured mossie! 😘

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Yeah, I can imagine it landing at a USAAF base by accident and them thinking - "we'll keep hold of that, I believe!" - after all, it's got an RAF serial number...

  • @julianmhall
    @julianmhall Рік тому +1

    I watched this one last night Gary, and you're right.. the hole in the wheel is off-centre. It doesn't /look/ deliberate but time will tell if it is.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Time or an email to Paramjit!

    • @julianmhall
      @julianmhall Рік тому

      @@garys_stuff *lol* I doubt he would have designed it off centre.. he would probably keyed it so it only went in one way. This looks like a moulding error as it's round but in the wrong place.

  • @tumbleweed1970able
    @tumbleweed1970able Рік тому +7

    cant help thinking it would so much easier to prime/paint all those cockipit parts after completing it as a sub assembly

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Maybe brush painting, with the airbrush I've often found that it leaves bits of void on inner edges and interior corners - no doubt something to do with the airflow and stagnations zones...

    • @gleggett3817
      @gleggett3817 Рік тому +1

      I've never trusted glue to work satisfactorily through paint. If I've ever painted first I've cleaned off the mating surfaces.

  • @darthhokum
    @darthhokum Рік тому +1

    Perfect work 🔥🔥🔥

  • @baymodels
    @baymodels Рік тому +1

    That turned out really nicely :)

  • @sos_legio_primus
    @sos_legio_primus Рік тому +1

    It looks like this kit has a near perfect fit. Not too much, if any filler needed.
    It is nice to see someone do an American Mozzie.

  • @tonygamson2911
    @tonygamson2911 Рік тому

    Another great video and an excellent finished model

  • @plasticmonkey5594
    @plasticmonkey5594 Рік тому +1

    hi Gary Gav sent me over ,shall check out your vids later

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Good to see you - any marra of Gav's is welcome here!

  • @petermerz2704
    @petermerz2704 Рік тому +1

    Very cool Gary! Thanks for sharing. 😎🇨🇦

  • @kristhijs3180
    @kristhijs3180 Рік тому +1

    My build of the Tamiya 1/72 PR Mosquito is on hold. Need to paint the the glass parts of the cockpit.Cockpit is general like all Mosquito's , decal seatbelts. The X from part of the landinggear is tricky, too thin and bend

  • @garryprettyman8927
    @garryprettyman8927 Рік тому +1

    When using a wash try cleaning it up, you seem to get a lot of tide marks, apart from that keep doing what your doing.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Think I need better lighting when I'm working.

  • @marksinthehouse1968
    @marksinthehouse1968 Рік тому +1

    I heard stories of the Americans putting little piles of saw dust under the mosquito for a laugh saying it’s got termites due to its wooden construction ,bet they changed their minds once they flew one
    Nice work Gary
    Mark 😊😊

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Those guys.....! I did hear a story (probably apocryphal) about a Mossie and a Marauder I think meeting in the skies, the Marauder putting on the juice and pulling away only for the Mossie to overtake it on one engine...or was it inverted? Anyway, probably a tall tale...

  • @emmabird9745
    @emmabird9745 Рік тому +1

    Hi Gary, nice model, nice build. One of my all time favourite AC.
    One or two things, is there latitude to build the cockpit in the side of the fuselage (without gluing of course) to use the fuselage as a jig for squareness? I was surprised at the landing gear being all silver. I've never really studied it but i remember the MK VI from the 60's adviised grey, but less sophisicated times. I think the "pitot tube" on the tail is actually the aerial anchor and there should be a wire aerial between there and the mast.
    I think the windows in the bottom of the wing might be landing lights as the nav lights are in the tips.
    You haven't weathered the outside much (no smoke trails from the exhaust etc so that is a bit inconsistent with faded blue. Mind you, I wonder what the finish (gloosness) on the wood surfaces compares like to if it is applied to metal AC. Perhaps faded is better to represent a more absorbent surface?
    On the subject of weathering (if one were doing it), the invasion stripes were applied as an emmulsion over the camoflage so I would expect it to wear more and show base paint through it (if one was represnting say September onwards). An interesting topic for thought,.
    Love your stand for spraying, supporting wings and rear fuselage. Great.
    As I said, great build. Thanks.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Hi Emma, I don't know about building the cockpit in the fuselage, I guess it's possible.
      The PRXVI Mossie in the USAF Museum has all silver gear - well that kind of dullish aluminium in fact. Which I guess light grey would approximate to. The pitot tube is the pitot tube, those Mossies that had aerial wires had an anchor point about a third of the way down from the pitot, many went from there to the mast then back to the port tailplane.
      The lights - well I can only see them working as landing lights if they pointed forward, which is why I thought they may be ID or single lights of some sort. There was some experimentation with electronic flash for PR work done in the USA in WW2, but I don't think the Mossies ever had it. This is why i think the lights in the leading edge are landing lights, but in the PR aircraft these are covered.
      Yes, weathering, a few people have noted that the stripes were added somewhat in haste - I wonder if that included aircraft delivered after June 44 or if they were done 'properly' a the factory? Anyway, it makes sense to do the full camouflage, then add the stripes and very gently sand off some of them. Maybe I'll try that sometime!
      Thanks for your reply as ever Emma! Cheers, Gary

    • @emmabird9745
      @emmabird9745 Рік тому

      @@garys_stuff Thanks Gary, very enlightening. I didn't think of flash photography, I suppose it would have to be flying low to work.
      you very well demonstrate the value of research re the silver landing gear.
      I've also wondered if a few jigs like to hold parts at angles (eg right angles) might be useful.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      @@emmabird9745 I'd have to look into it, but I think it was at astonishingly high altitude - research by 'Doc' Egerton, one of the most influential scientific photographers of all time - it was he who invented the shutter system that captured the developing atomic bomb explosion with one millionth of a second exposures, for example. He also came up with the classic milk drop and bullet through a playing card images. Bit of a hero of mine, as you can tell!

    • @emmabird9745
      @emmabird9745 Рік тому

      @@garys_stuff Hi Gary, I defer entirely to your superior knowledge. Apart fron Fox-Talbot and Eastman-Kodak, my knowledge of photography is limitted to point and press the shutter.
      I have read a book "Spies in the sky" by Taylor Downing but that is more about the interpretation of the photos. A fascinating subject in itself.

  • @randytaylor1258
    @randytaylor1258 Рік тому +1

    Gary, in working on belly ID lights, you had the fuselage reversed. Because everyone knows that . . .
    the jig is up. 😂
    (I couldn't resist.)

  • @bradleyhatchen
    @bradleyhatchen Рік тому +1

    On you model you should use mod pog glue for you glass landing gear part in jig should of been bare plastic paint it later it gives a strong bond fiddling parts

  • @stevesstuff1450
    @stevesstuff1450 Рік тому

    She's a beauty Gary!! 👍
    I bought this version of the kit as soon as it came out as I want to do the RAF version with the red/white striped tail fin.... however, I'm seriously considering that USAAF version now!!
    I love a plane in PRU blue; I built the Tamiya 1/48 version as a PR... looks great (apart from the very thick Tamiya transfers/decals not playing ball with MicroSol/Set...! 😠 )
    Just have to finish wrestling this bloody Italeri F-15E 1/48 kit - getting prepped for the transfers now (and hoping that all the stressed glue areas don't just collapse over night and leave me with a mess of parts...!!! It's a real B**ch of a kit - I only bought it because it was marketed/reboxed as an RAF Lakenheath bird, and that's my local base here in Suffolk (plus I work on base in the BX) and love those planes....
    Anyway....back to Mosquito's; yours is a stunner, and I hope mine comes out looking as good! I did the previous version of this kit (the one with the inaccurate bomb-bay doors!), and loved it - Paramjit is a genius designer! 🙂

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      To be strictly accurate, its a South African Air Force plane but it didn't use the orange centred roundels for some reason. But both schemes are very smart indeed. But Paramjit did very well with this, some really creative solutions to perennial problems!

    • @randytaylor1258
      @randytaylor1258 Рік тому +1

      If you go back and check your Tamiya instructions, I think you'll find that Tamiya notes that conventional solutions don't work on their decals. That's why they released their own MarkFit. It all depends on who printed the decals. But it is one beauty of a kit. 😀

  • @markfranks1329
    @markfranks1329 Рік тому +1

    Hey Gary, another lovely job. Great finish.
    One general comment I have to make, however, and I say this with respect, is to look into, perhaps, setting yourself up with a cabinet of some sort, or failing that, some shelves to place your completed models on.
    Positioning these finished items precariously on top of model boxes is not a good look. (Again, said with respect.)
    Keep up the good work. 👍

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +2

      Looking into storage bins as every level surface in the house now has kits on it!

  • @csf6614
    @csf6614 Рік тому +1

    Really nice finish ... What was the stand/holder you had the plane resting on when you were building as I was looking to get one...

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Sadly I can't find it any more - it was on eBay from Australia some years ago. A company called LMG in Ukraine makes stands.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Just seen a very similar one sold by Ammo by MiG online at eBay for about £30...

  • @paultaylor4365
    @paultaylor4365 Рік тому +1

    Nice build Gary. What are the details of the stand you are using for painting? It looks like a stable platform for painting and adding the decals.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      It was once I got from Australia some years ago on eBay, but Ammo by MiG does a very similar one these days - I have seen them from eBay store for about £30 in the UK.

  • @alanpearson7554
    @alanpearson7554 Рік тому +1

    Hi Gary, Another great build and a kit I will have to buy. I notice on your Monday broadcast that you mentioned you had some trouble with the Devil's Tool (I think some people call them airbrushes) during you 48 build. Given the amount of time you spend modelling, how often do you need to change your airbrush?

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Yes I have, some trouble it was indeed. The spring in the air inlet valve broke and a fragment got lodged in the valve barrel and when I managed to extract it there was a nice scrape in the side so it wouldn't seal. It was about 18 months old, but it was a very cheap airbrush! I got another very cheap one which does OK, might invest in a bit of an upgrade later in the year but not up to Iwata or anything like that!

  • @danestewart2539
    @danestewart2539 Рік тому +1

    Would I be right in presuming that the mask set won’t cover the bubble top canopy?

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Yes, it covers the surrounds of the bubble with the suggestion that you use some masking fluid for the bubble itself.

  • @robo40
    @robo40 Рік тому +1

    Excellent model and video again Gary! I wonder if the blue around the US markings you referred to is actually representing the RAF roundels underneath?

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Don't think so, only because there are a few patches with stencils on (tail jack points) and the background of those is that brighter blue. Maybe Vallejo just need to do an unfaded PRU Blue!

    • @robo40
      @robo40 Рік тому

      @@garys_stuff oh right. Never good when they put the paint colour on the decal as you found out with Italeri's sterling cockpit panel.

  • @Pappajb26
    @Pappajb26 Рік тому +1

    Excellent video.what is that jig the plane is sitting on,is it home made?

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      No it was from a company in Australia some years back, got in via eBay. Can't find it any more though, sadly!

  • @Unyielding_Modeller
    @Unyielding_Modeller Рік тому +1

    Nice build Gary. Can I ask you which PRU blue did you use?

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      It is Vallejo Model Air 71.109 Faded PRU Blue

  • @justinfouche-yg3pd
    @justinfouche-yg3pd Рік тому +1

    Great build as usual thanks Gary.I do have one critique though, being that I'm from south Africa it would have been nice to see the saaf version 😂

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      I try to rotate with the non-RAF versions where possible - I am due a South African scheme soon!

    • @justinfouche-yg3pd
      @justinfouche-yg3pd Рік тому

      @@garys_stuff no problem Gary I understand and thank you for a prompt reply and a wonderful channel have a great evening 👍

  • @simonbaker6962
    @simonbaker6962 Рік тому +1

    For small windows dont bother with the supplied windows. Use Glue and Glaze instead.

  • @froudey5756
    @froudey5756 Рік тому

    Hi Gary, question on the fuselage invasion stripes, you mention leaving the tape as a template, did you eventually remove it once you filled in the inside to cover the stripes or did it stay the whole time? Hope this makes sense!

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      Yes, I covered the bits that were white and black with fresh tape, then removed the rest (apart from the stuff covering the red tail), so when I sprayed the blue the stripes were covered. You could, as had been mentioned, just spray the blue first then mask and spray the stripes, but I find I get a better white this way. Maybe not as ‘authentic’ but more visually appealing to me!

  • @FinsburyPhil
    @FinsburyPhil Рік тому +1

    Lovely build Gary. A question on painting - I've always approached painting by doing it in the order that it would have been applied on the real subject. So in this case, overall PRU Blue first and then the invasion stripes. Is there a particular reason you did it the way you did?

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому

      None other than I have found that the white when I'm airbrushing needs a lot of coast over other colours. It might be OK over PRU blue, but over camouflage I've found it challenging. So it's just habit, really!

    • @FinsburyPhil
      @FinsburyPhil Рік тому +1

      @@garys_stuff That's perfectly logical Gary - keeping the paint layers thin is important

  • @TiberiusMaximus
    @TiberiusMaximus Рік тому +1

    been making a lot of 1/72 planes lately and so far it looks like Premium Hobbies, Hasegawa and Flyhawk have been very good. Special Hobby is abysmal

  • @paulcorrigan649
    @paulcorrigan649 Рік тому +1

    Well done Gary. The moulding looked really shabby so for you to have produced such a lovely kit is Testament to your modelling skills.

    • @randytaylor1258
      @randytaylor1258 Рік тому +1

      ???

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for the compliment but I didn't think the moulding was shabby?

    • @paulcorrigan649
      @paulcorrigan649 Рік тому

      @garys_stuff just around the pilots seats, windows, lights and a few parts not as crisp as Airfix have become.

  • @julianmhall
    @julianmhall Рік тому +1

    Random question.. is the IDF of Vallejo IDF Green 'Israeli Defence Force'? Just wondered if it is that (their uniforms sort of look that green) or just a coincidence.

    • @garys_stuff
      @garys_stuff  Рік тому +1

      Yes it is listed as IAF/IDF Green, so I am assuming Israeli. It just seems a better match to what I've seen of RAF/FAA interiors than other colours I've tried.

  • @markadams9819
    @markadams9819 Рік тому +1

    🐶🙂👌👍👋🏻