I built mine in scheme A as I didn't want a Mosquito in US service. The 'blemish' you noticed on the decal for the tail was a deliberate choice by the designer as its location matches where the pitot tube is. I found I needed to touch up that area as well as the front where the two decals line up with a bit of red paint otherwise there would be a white line all the way down the front. The jig made drilling very easy. I had a bit more trouble with the hole on the side. It's the first kit I've painted with Invasion stripes and it wasn't as difficult as I expected. The smooth fuselage really helps when using masking tape. I did notice the kit uses the newer plastic while the original release had the older.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 19 July, 2024) Thanks for your personal overview, mate. Rather better this Airfix kit is than I would have expected, I must say. In your assessment, might I ask you, please, that you give us your comparison with the Tamiya 1:72nd-scale kit of de Havilland’s DH-98 Mosquito RAF Mk.VI Light Bomber/-Mk.II Photo-Reconnaissance aircraft, please? When you can, of course. I years past had assembled at least three of Tamiya’s 1:48nd-scale Mosquito kits, in various marks, and different manifestations. Decades prior, an older Airfix model--if memory serves; at one time, I had assembled round seventy model æroplanes, all in 1:72nd-scale. Round a dozen were British: the AVRO Lancaster; THE Handley-Page Halifax, and the Short Stirling RAF Heavy Bombers. I quite enjoyed the tow tractor with its train of laden bomb trolleys; they are why I had departed from my usual preference to configure them airborne in the assembly when I built the long æroplane aground, displaying it undergoing servicing prior to a nocturnal, secret sortie somewhere deep into Nazi-held Europe). I delighted in the legend in progress of the de Havilland Mosquito Light Bomber, long renowned as “the wooden wonder” racing across Germany’s skies regardless of the hour. and the Vickers Wellington Medium Bomber, known for its geodesic physical construction. The Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane, and the Typhoon Fighters (the last derived from the Tempest). Lastly, does your channel name mean “Captain, Victoria Flying Cross”?
@user-ni2zo5zo3c Hello, I made the 1/72 Tamiya Mosquito FB VI a few years ago and will look to feature a brief comparison in the build video. I also have the Tamiya 1/48 version still to build. My name is not related to medals, but that is a fantastic suggestion!
Balsa core, with "Duralumin" and marine ply skin. My Grandmother used to make parts for them. The wood was flammable, the glue was flammable and even worse, if things got hot enough, that "Duralumin" was seriously flammable. A bit like flying into battle in a Swan Vesta box of matches.
Nice video Lee
Another great review
I built mine in scheme A as I didn't want a Mosquito in US service.
The 'blemish' you noticed on the decal for the tail was a deliberate choice by the designer as its location matches where the pitot tube is. I found I needed to touch up that area as well as the front where the two decals line up with a bit of red paint otherwise there would be a white line all the way down the front.
The jig made drilling very easy. I had a bit more trouble with the hole on the side.
It's the first kit I've painted with Invasion stripes and it wasn't as difficult as I expected. The smooth fuselage really helps when using masking tape.
I did notice the kit uses the newer plastic while the original release had the older.
Not normally something i would go for as im a jet modeller but a good kit IS a goid kit
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 19 July, 2024)
Thanks for your personal overview, mate. Rather better this Airfix kit is than I would have expected, I must say.
In your assessment, might I ask you, please, that you give us your comparison with the Tamiya 1:72nd-scale kit of de Havilland’s DH-98 Mosquito RAF Mk.VI Light Bomber/-Mk.II Photo-Reconnaissance aircraft, please? When you can, of course.
I years past had assembled at least three of Tamiya’s 1:48nd-scale Mosquito kits, in various marks, and different manifestations. Decades prior, an older Airfix model--if memory serves; at one time, I had assembled round seventy model æroplanes, all in 1:72nd-scale. Round a dozen were British: the AVRO Lancaster; THE Handley-Page Halifax, and the Short Stirling RAF Heavy Bombers. I quite enjoyed the tow tractor with its train of laden bomb trolleys; they are why I had departed from my usual preference to configure them airborne in the assembly when I built the long æroplane aground, displaying it undergoing servicing prior to a nocturnal, secret sortie somewhere deep into Nazi-held Europe). I delighted in the legend in progress of the de Havilland Mosquito Light Bomber, long renowned as “the wooden wonder” racing across Germany’s skies regardless of the hour. and the Vickers Wellington Medium Bomber, known for its geodesic physical construction. The Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane, and the Typhoon Fighters (the last derived from the Tempest).
Lastly, does your channel name mean “Captain, Victoria Flying Cross”?
@user-ni2zo5zo3c Hello,
I made the 1/72 Tamiya Mosquito FB VI a few years ago and will look to feature a brief comparison in the build video. I also have the Tamiya 1/48 version still to build.
My name is not related to medals, but that is a fantastic suggestion!
Mosquitoes were made of formed plywood not 'balsa'.
Balsa core, with "Duralumin" and marine ply skin. My Grandmother used to make parts for them.
The wood was flammable, the glue was flammable and even worse, if things got hot enough, that "Duralumin" was seriously flammable. A bit like flying into battle in a Swan Vesta box of matches.
Remember invasion stripes were painted on in a hurry with men wearing there no1 uniforms using mops and brooms. No need to be too neat.