I mentioned this in this thread, http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234941813-mosquito-cockpit/
but got no comments.
This is a musuem B.35, but the tyres looks the same as the clear pics of wartime ones.
like this, if you look carefully.
my point is no 1/48th tyres actually look like this!
counting from other photos, it looks like the tyre has approx 40 bands of segments, the Tamiya tyres have about 50-52 bands, [it's fun trying to count them!] making each segment too