Help needed for a good friend of mine. Mosquito

[corsaircorp]

Hello dears,

A friend of mine has read the book "Pathfinders" from a member of 109th Sqdn.

Pierre is a great fan of the Bomber Command, found enough to make not only 1 Fonderie Halifax but 2.

Obviously, just 2 seem to be too easy, so let's make one with Hercules engines and the other one with Merlin, of course.

So Pierre will reproduce the Mosquito B XVI serial ML 990 coded HS-O

The question is about the camo colours and the colour of the code , sky or red.

He just have a bad B/W photo that is not clear enough to assert Something.

Except that this particular bird is a big bellied mossie with needle blades, seemingly, no teardrops blisters on the canopy.

Gents, can we seriously let such a Bomber Command fan in the fog.

I've tried to find this Mosquito but without results.

We thank you beforehand.

Sincerely.

Corsaircorp.

 

[Work In Progress]

It was a B.XVI of 109 Squadron, operating out of Little Staughton in Bedfordshire. Your friend's photo must have been taken before 4 December 1944 when it collided with PF402 over Karlsruhe and was lost.

 

I don't have a photograph to show you, but there's a bloke here who has built close relative ML957, also of 109 Squadron, in Ocean Grey and Dark Green over Night with red codes. This choice of colours is said to be based on both the Airfix kit instructions and a colour photograph in his possession. It is also what I would expect.

 

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal5/4801-4900/gal4813-Mosquito-Milne/00.shtm

 

[corsaircorp]

I thank you very much.

I'll forward it to my friend.

I repeatedly tell him to come up to BM

But he is not a close friend of his own PC.

It's sad, because he is a far better modeller than I am.

Thank you again.

Corsaircorp

[corsaircorp]

MOSQUITO B XVI ML 990 crew P/O Johnny LIDDLE et P/O Albert SMITH (his war memories in the book MOSQUITO PATHFINDER)

Sorry, this aivraft has paddle blades, my mistake...

Thank you

Corsaircorp

[JasonC]

21 hours ago, corsaircorp said:

no teardrops blisters on the canopy.

 

 

Being a B.XVI, it would have had a pressurised cabin and therefore the 'bulged' style side windows rather than teardrop blisters. The unpressurised B.IV and B.IX would have had the teardrops you describe.

 

Also, for a 109 Sqn XVI I would say that Medium Sea Grey is also an option for the underside colour. Hopefully the photo you have should shows whether the underside is dark (in which case Night) or light (MSG).

 

regards,

jason