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  1. Ventora3300
    How did you find the wings for fit to the fuselage, Pete? Your joints look spot on. I found I had a choice on whether upper or lower joint needed some filler, depending on how I compressed them on during drying. (I like it when there is a well for the wings to slide into rather than butt joints like on this kit). All the best. Mike.
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    Andy, the wheels look great but it looks like the tyres are hitting the skinny legs down towards the cross pieces - even the Airfix ones did that on one of my undercarriages. Maybe a bit of filing of the insides of the legs where the rubber shock absorbers casings are would help? Well worth it IMHO. Good luck. Mike.
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    Relaxed blitz build…..? Not in your nature! Great to see the Matchbox version and how it will look once you have waved your magic wand over it. All the best. Mike
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    I get that all the time with a new tin of Humbrol, Pat. I end up having to stir, stir, stir……and dredge up the solids from the bottom corners. It still comes out as a gloss on the first use. Hope the second coat is enough. All the best. Mike.
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    Airfix DH Mosquito B.XVI 109 Squadron ML957 The night bomber option of this new tool Airfix kit - an enjoyable build and made even more so by all the input from the BM GB Community and the hardworking Hosts. Many thanks to all for that and also for sharing your builds - loads of top tips there! Build thread is here. Roll on the next build!
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    All fiddling with the Mossie finished now - I've enjoyed this one but it would have been better if Airfix had provided a decent crew and a stand! The brush painting does show up where multiple touch ups have been necessary. I'll get to an air brush eventually! De Havilland did describe the Mosquito as 'all nacelles and propellors', demonstrated in this view. The props turn but are not 'spinners, despite all that graphite. I like the bomb bay detail and adding all the lights was a bit of fun. Time to fly this Mossie round the room and put down for a bit! Next stop the Gallery.
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    Thanks for that. Roll on the finish! Thanks Dave. The three foot rule applies here! I'll end up coming back to this to trim up the frame lines at some point. Thanks Charlie. Lots to tidy up as exposed by the photos... Airfix are going downhill - no stand either! Thanks Andy - a black paint job loooks good on bombers. You are right, Rob. The two figures should be a tight fit in that cosy cockpit. I remember thinking at the time that the second seat must be set on the floor as the Navs were always set back, this one more than most! However Angus Lennie was the archetypical 'wee Jock' - he typically survived the crash to jump out streaming blood and pull out the unconscious 'hero'! That's him - cooking up behind the scenes at the Crossroads Motel.
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    Rob, it’s that dark spot at the rear inner end of the wingtip piece where the aileron meets it - where the rear glass on the MK.IV wing usually is. Some pics also show a resin light below the white light right at the tail end, which I now always dot in in blue!
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    That canopy! - the masks make a great job of the frame painting but a lot of it came off with handling as struggled with the side windows. I ended up touching in with a cocktail stick after all that! Just the varnishing to do plus the silver on the pitot tube.
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    Getting there with this one - the crew member that Airfix forgot got slimmed down and squeezed in. Don't ask how I got his legs in but they are there. These pictures also serve to spot any touch ups required, i.e. the pilot's oxygen mask. The decals are on that are going on and I found these a bit difficult. OK, backing film seems to have been reduced but the squadron codes kept folding up and were very difficult to move about once off the paper. There are very many of the small stencil decals that are just too small at this scale for me to put on accurately. Any stencils on the black undersides just disappear. I managed to get the tresle line one on beside the forward hatch but the others were too 'invisible' to position correctly.
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    Looks like you've done a fair bit of work already, Pete, so you are well on the way. I found that I had to be extra vigilant to use the numbered parts in the right places as per the Instructions - re. the two nose side windows mentioned by Charlie which look the same but definitely have a handed 'kink' in the top front corners, a challenge for the MK.1 eyeballs! Best of luck for your Build. Mike.
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    Looking good! Don’t forget those masks on the nose Perspex, Charlie…..
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    Maybe the censor has been at work here to keep the presence or size of the gun secret......
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    Another round of touch-ups have been completed and canopy masking in progress. The first canopy dropped off and went under my foot briefly and the side windows popped out - there were slight markings from the glue so I quickly moved to the spare sitting in my PR.XVI boxing. The top colours are Acrylics so hopefully two coats will fly on to the canopy with the reduced drying time. I decided to put on the wingtip light masks just to see if any improvement was needed to my 'by eye' paint there. I'm going to try painting the 'internal' frames inside the canopy to create the high pressure canopy look _ I'm very reticent about trying to sand off the necessary raised frames outside the canopy.
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    Charlie, that fuel cooler and OBOE radome look spot on and the drilled nav light bulbs have come out well. Are your fuel tanks just dry fitted at the moment? I found I had to really push them down and flush with the bomb bay roof to be able to fit in the bomb racks/carriers on top (underneath really). As usual, my brush painting blew the tight tolerances. It’s looking brilliant. All the best. Mike.
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