Tail-Dragon Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) I'm building an original issue 1/48 Airfix Mosquito into a 57mm Molins armed Tsetse. IMHO, while it's not on par with the Tamiya kits, the 38 year old Airfix kit still can build up rather nicely. I've busied up the cockpit a bit, added etched seatbelts, and a scratch built gun sight, and enclosed it with a Squadron "bulged" vac canopy (meant for the Tamiya - interesting making that fit!). I've also reduced the machine guns to 2, Molins barrel from brass tubing, added the breech covers from parts of a bomb, a missile nose and sheet plastic, and added the flap reinforcement from strip. Oh yes, I also rescribed the kit, reprofiled the prop blades, and reduced the spinner opening size. Well here it is so far ... breech by Colin Latta, on Flickr cockpit by Colin Latta, on Flickr As I said, I quite like how the Airfix builds up, here's an older build ... Edited February 14, 2018 by Tail-Dragon added photos 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Hello Tse-Tse ... You have my attention sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 That is looking superb. I like the old Airfix kit. It only suffers from not having a Tamiya logo on the box IMHO. As you have demonstrated a well built Airfix Mosquito builds into a vastly better Mosquito than a mediocre effort on the Tamiya kit. It really isn't bad at all! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tail-Dragon Posted February 14, 2018 Author Share Posted February 14, 2018 (edited) Here's some new photo's of my progress on the Tsetse Mossie ... Progress is being made, slowly, Hope you like, Colin Edited February 14, 2018 by Tail-Dragon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tail-Dragon Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Continued on this thread ... http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235034028-mosquito-xviii-tse-tse/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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