1/48 Tamiya Mosquito FB Mk.VI

Gallery Article by Jamie Cheslo on Sept 16 2009

 

This is the lovely Tamiya Mosquito kit. I added the Eduard Zoom Colour Etch set. Too bad so much of that detail is hidden inside the closed up cockpit, though. To give the model some life, I cut and repositioned the vertical stabilizer and the rear elevators. I also added brake lines to the landing gear, and drilled the lightening holes. Additionally, I added some detail to the nose mounted machine guns and did not glue on the nose access panel. The decals are kit, and they went on very well with no silvering, with just a little bit of help from some Solvaset.

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This was my first attempt at painting on invasion stripes, and while not perfect, I like the way they came out.

Hope you enjoy my  model. Thanks for looking,

Jamie Cheslo

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Photos and text © by Jamie Cheslo