Tamiya 1:32 Mosquito

[monica]

looks great all the detail that your put some much time into,

[colin m]

Nice update. It's looking great.

[flyjoe180]

Goodness me John, that is superb work indeed. BTW the date of Operation Jericho was 18 February 1944.

[Guest]

Thank you flyjoe...and for the typo spotting! I changed it now, thanks again.

[Guest]

last few days work. Belly guns and attaching the fuselage to the wings...which was such a great snap fit that I used no glue at all. Brilliant Tamiya!


May have suffered a bit from excessive matt varnish on the fuel tanks and other places...dried to a nasty matt white powdery mess.grrrr.


Anway...some snaps.




wings dry fitted by John Dutfield, on Flickr



fueselage to wings by John Dutfield, on Flickr



belly guns half made by John Dutfield, on Flickr



with ammo belts by John Dutfield, on Flickr



belly guns in by John Dutfield, on Flickr

[colin m]

Nice work, it looks great.

[Dave W]

This is looking really good John.Its a very impressive kit isn't it?. Somebody makes after market resin wheels for this model. I can't see why anyone would want them.I built up my wheels last night and all the tread sections were a perfect fit. Best looking wheels I've seen (and I've built a lot of kits over the years!). Incredible engineering by Tamiya.

[Guest]

Thanks Colin. Yes Dave, I agree, it's an amazing kit. I'm learning so fast that now, about 2/3rds through, I wish I could start again! In truth tho I'm already planning something else, maybe a bit more dioramaish, I'm not sure, but certainly large scale again, since fat fingers and shaky hands do not = a good recipe for tiny parts. Did someone mention a 1:24 spitfire????

[stona]

There's clearly a lot of fantastic detail in the kit and you've done a tremendous job on it.


It's yet another BIG kit which looks very tempting.


Cheers


Steve

[papa 695]

Super work so far John I'm going to tag along with this one

[Guest]

Ghosts in the machine...


picking up a tiny bomb clamp in tweezers, I squueezed too hard and 'ping..........'


Then spent an hour clearing the entire worktop etc to no avail


So now ofc I believe in Gremlins...what are they making with all the bits they steal??

[Guest]

This is looking sooooo good.


Scott

[Guest]

Thank you Scott, it's been a steep learning curve but I'm starting to understand more now. Great forum btw. Enjoying all I read here.

[stona]

So now ofc I believe in Gremlins...what are they making with all the bits they steal??

Heaven knows, but it's big!


They've had one of the radiator flap actuator arms off my Bf 110 today. I lost it exactly as you lost your bomb clamp. I have a rug and a slate floor but neither stops some bits displacing themselves by significant distances, I don't know where the energy comes from.


I find that the vacuum cleaner with an old and disused pair of SWMBO's tights stretched over the nozzle to catch small parts works quite well as a retrieval aid, though you'll also pick up all sorts of other little plastic bits that you spent hours trimming off the model parts.


Cheers


Steve

[takeslousyphotos]

That is some superb detail work John.....Very very impressive..... I'll tag along and watch this build.