1/48th SCALE AIRFIX DEHAVILLAND MOSQUITO, 627 SQUADRON

I'm tuned alright fella .

Mossies are lovely birds and I am sure this is gonna be
exceptionally good in your hands

Nice, never built one but always wanted too

Right here mare

So I decided to expand this project into a dual 1/48th Mosquito build and I am going to throw a Tamiya 1/48th Mossie into the mix. The reason being, the other Airfix Mossie kit I am building contains parts for the gun nose FB. VI so I am going to use those parts to convert the Tamiya Mk. IV into the a gun-nose maritime striker. 




I am going to use Kits at War decals for these to depict the following:

Airfix Mossie---Mosquito Mk. IV series II which had the enlarged bomb bay, narrow prop blades (from Tamyia kit) and the long two stage Merlin engines. The Airfix Mk. XVI kit supplies all those components except the narrow blades. This plane will be a Ocean Grey/Dk. Green over Black Pathfinder, AZ*H, from 627 Squadron.

Tamiya Mossie---This one will be a FB. VI gun nose Maritime striker from 235 Squadron, W*3, from the Banff Strike Wing. This Mossie will be in Extra Dark Sea Grey over Sky camo with full invasion stripes. It will have the wide blades, gun nose and wing-mounted rockets.




Here is the cockpit for the Airfix Mk. IV series II. I added wiring to the back of the instrument panel and straps to the seats.Some wiring was added by the radio sets as well.







Then I moved on to the fuselage sections and painted the various panels and boxes:








Following that, I moved on to the Tamiya FB. VI conversion. I used the Airfix cockpit floorboard and instrument panel for that since the gun nose interior is different than the glass nose. I also added some straps and wiring to this cockpit as well. Once that was done, the Airfix gun nose was mated to the Tamiya fuselage and the fit was actually reasonably good.










Both fuselages were then assembled and cemented with few fit problems. So grab your Citronella Candles and stay tuned for more Mosquitos.



Ian

Both fuselages are joined so I will let everything cure up and then I will start the seam work.

Regards,

Ian

I built a Tiffy with the invasion stripes, I painted the black on first then masked the
stripes off. I went back over the masked stripes with black then painted the white.
This way stopped any white bleeding under the masked areas .



Sorry for the hijack, but at least can see the result

Hey Paul, you have a pic of the completed Typhoon or is it on the site already?

Ian

Great kitbash Ian, making something you can’t buy is always pleasing

Nice Tiffy Paul, spraying white over black helps prevent tonal crush caused by the high contrast of black and white too

Smashing work on the pits, all looking brilliant and very interesting