Tim’s 1/48 Tamiya Mosquito FB Mk VI

[Airborne01]

Check your decals. It might be the colour is a bit off on my decals. You would need to clip off the carrier film tight to the decals as well. It will show on the canopy.
For mine, I just used a good brush and Vallejo interior green paint Steve. Any overpaint can be easily removed with a chisel shaped cocktail stick. Might take a couple of goes until you are happy, but acrylics dry quickly so it’s not too onerous.

Ta muchly ol' chap - I'll try that!

[Tim Marlow]

Well, still plodding on………
Construction complete. Masked up and ready for primer once the paper stuffing dries out…..probably after lunch……just a quick brush down first.

Just been checking my Xtradecal set for Len Cheshire’s ride, and it’s all over medium sea grey (top and bottom) with the green disruptive pattern on top, so that’s nice and easy……the only slightly tricky bit will be the half invasion stripes like the Spitfire I did. Just got to work out how wide two foot stripes are in 1/48th…..and that’s nice and easy as well! How does half an inch sound

[Allen Dewire]

Great to see you driving on Tim. Nice clean work as usual too. Invasion stripes are too far over my head in any scale! I truly hope you are doing much better with the RA my friend...Bring on the primer.......

Prost
Allen

[Tim Marlow]

Great to see you driving on Tim. Nice clean work as usual too. Invasion stripes are too far over my head in any scale! I truly hope you are doing much better with the RA my friend...Bring on the primer.......

Prost
Allen

Much better thanks Allen. Second set of steroids pretty much drove it off. Still not quite on biologics though, so I hope it doesn’t sneak back in……..

[adt70hk]

That Photo of the MG check/sighting.
The low light level would suggest a long exposure time for the photo, which would explain the Tracer rounds' ray gun effect. Never the less an impressive, or is it imposing, photo.

That's what I was thinking!

[yak face]

Just catching up with this Tim , been away for a week so missed a lot of stuff . Good to hear your RA has improved and youre feeling a bit better , as for the build - the cockpit is sublime , and the airframe is getting there too , its going to look great in the paint , cheers tony

[Tim Marlow]

Just catching up with this Tim , been away for a week so missed a lot of stuff . Good to hear your RA has improved and youre feeling a bit better , as for the build - the cockpit is sublime , and the airframe is getting there too , its going to look great in the paint , cheers tony

Cheers Tony. Very kind of you. Hope I don’t disappoint with the paint now :tongue-out3:

[Mini Me]

Tim!!.....have you ever disappointed us with your painting?

[Tim Marlow]

Tim!!.....have you ever disappointed us with your painting?

Always a first time…….nobody’s perfect……even the Beatles recorded revolution nine……

[Tim Marlow]

Well, we’ve been priming…..and then had a nasty sunken seam on the top of the fuselage.

Filled with Mr dissolved putty 1200……and wet sanded.


Much better……

Also had trouble with the fit of the canopy…..

Same filler, not such good results though. Bit more work, and……


That’s as good as it can get……

Worked through the pre shade next.

Found it quite hard to work on this beast in my spray booth. This is probably as big as I can build, which is a bit of a shame because I’ve got a couple of slightly larger kits in the stash….they might have to be summer builds sprayed in the garage….

All comments welcome….

[Mickc1440]

Nice progress Tim, seam lines are my true nemesis :hungry:

[Ian M]

Well the primer look nice and flat. Nice work on the post shade as well!

[Mini Me]

It appears you have outgrown your spray booth Tim......nice putty work "seams" to me you've got this down to a science :thumb2:

[Tim Marlow]

Nice progress Tim, seam lines are my true nemesis :hungry:

Me too Mick. This one had them all over the place. Definitely not Tamiya’s finest moment Mind you, I think some of it is down to the AK filler I have. Its very wet and seems to shrink back for ages.

[Tim Marlow]

Well the primer look nice and flat. Nice work on the post shade as well!

Cheers Ian.