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Clean and accurate, beautiful model. I love this type. Dan

Great modeling and a very interesting helicopter type, especially from modeling point of view. Congrats, Dan

Beautiful Sea Vixen, Marcello. Great paint finish! Congrats, Dan

Beautiful Starfighter with nice tonal variation of a discolored Italian grey livery. Congrats, Dan

Please, find hereinafter some images of my last model of a De Havilland Mosquito Fighter Bomber Mk. VI. 143 Squadron of the RAF Coastal Command fighter and anti-submarine unit October 1944 to May 1945, Banff, Scotland The kit is the old Tamiya 1:48 kit dated 1998, but, despite its age, I found that this kit is very nice and an impressive model can be still obtained by it. The model was finished with Tamiya acrylic paints with the exception of the metallic parts that are finished with Vallejo Metallic paints. The Extra Dark Sea Grey camouflage of these aircraft was often painted over the standard RAF grey/green camouflage. Hence, I applied the former so that the latter could be seen through the EDSG layer. I replaced the canopy with a Squadron vacuum formed one because the transparent part of the kit was found damaged. I also replaced all the gun barrels with the very nice Master brass after market barrels which are more realistic than the plastic ones. My build log can be found here. All the pictures of this post were taken with a Nikon 3100 camera with aperture priority mode and with an indirect natural sun light illumination. In conclusion, I enjoyed very much building this fine kit and I hope that you will like my model. Best regards, Dan

@KDB, indeed the spinners were not trivial and they took several tries before I could reach a satisfactory result due to their nature of a compound surface. At the end, the best result was achieved by: - paint the spinner entirely with light blue - protect the surface with a 'future'-like coat (I used Humbrol satin varnish) - mask the ring and the nose with a flexible 2 mm Tamiya tape. For the ring, probably 2 mm is a tad too wide, but I declared that it was OK for me. I stretched a lot the tape, so that both edges of the tape were in good contact with the surface. For the nose, only one edge was important, the other edge was filled with masking fluid. - another light brushed coat of transparent varnish to seal the edges of the tapes - coat everything with the yellow paint. Good luck with your Mosquito, cheers, Dan

Dear all, thanks for your "like's, this is my last instalment here with the last steps about my Mosquito build. I finally completed the under wing armament and attached the doors of the bomb bay and the landing gear wells. Then the last small loose items like the windscreen wiper which was not molded into the vacuum formed canopy: My build is now practically finished. I liked very much this kit, which, although dated back to 1998, was very nice as far as precision of fit and rendition of surface details. Also the interiors, with few improvements was brought to a good level of detailing: I will post the final pictures of the completed model in the RFI section. Thanks for following and best regards, Dan

Fantastic result! Very nice finish and great rendition of the exhaust stains. Congrats, Dan

Hi, thanks for the 'likes'. I furnished the interior of the bomb bay of my Mosquito and sprayed the exhaust stains on the sides of the nacelles. I saw pictures showing that these planes were very battered by usage, hence I tried to convey this impression by indulging with black fumes. Time to install the last loose items starting with the bomb bay doors. Other remaining items will follow next. Any criticism or suggestion is welcome, best regards, Dan

That is a beauty, so masterfully executed. Congrats, Dan

Very nice cockpit. That is a good addition to this old kit. Cheers, Dan

Hi all, thanks for your feedback and the like's. I went on completing the landing gears subassemblies by adding the wheels and the brake lines: The tail wheel went in its place: ... and the main gears also went in their places: That's all for now, thanks for any feedback you might have, best regards, Dan

Outstanding model! I had to search for clues to understand whether it was a model or a real thing. Congrats, Dan

Beautiful Corsair with lot of details to look at. Great weathering of a heavily used machine. Congrats, Dan

Great Phantom with a great finish and weathering. Very realistic! Cheers, Dan