Airfix 1/72 Mosquito PR.XVI

[alhenderson]

Picked up the new tool Airfix Mosquito whilst on a visit to the de Havilland museum last year (couldn't really not come away with a Mossie, could I??).  I don't often end up building newer Airfix kits for various reasons, preferring instead to constantly make life hard by building old Matchbox kits or various Sword things, so this was going to be a nice relaxing build 🙂 And it pretty much was.  Construction was straightforward, I ended up ditching some of the transparencies for the camera ports and using Krystal Klear instead (which looks way better).  Completely OOB apart from a set of Eduard canopy masks and some tape seat belts.  I'm a massive fan of the exhausts, I think they look really good for some reason.

 

I made life hard for myself with painting.  I usually adopt the approach of paint the lighter colour first and then progress to darker.  Hence I did the white of the invasion stripes, and then the black (cos going blue and then back to the black would have been mad!) before doing the blue.  There's a lot of masking either way, but I think I should have done the blue and then the invasion stripes.  The invasion stripes are also probably far too neat for something applied with a broom in a hurry at 3am on June 6th, but never mind!

 

Painted with Vallejo Model Air PRU blue which I found sprayed really nicely with a couple of drops of flow improver.  I think my Mr Hobby matt varnish has frosted the red tail slightly which is a little annoying but I'm not sure what I would do to fix it that wouldn't entail a bunch of work so I let it be.  Weathered with Flory wash, Winsor & Newton oils and some Tamiya smoke for the engine exhausts (very subtle - probably needed a couple more passes).

 

Anyway, on with the pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's 4 builds I've completed this year!  Some kind of record!  Although this is the only one that was actually started this year..

 

Thanks for looking,

Al.

 

[TEXANTOMCAT]

Looks superb Al well done fella 🫡

[Mig88]

Very nice indeed !

 

Miguel

[Tom R]

Very nice

[kapam]

That looks fantastic!

The blue color and US Air Force markings look spectacular on a Mozzie!

👏👏👏

[AlxBNE]

A very nice job you have done there.

You have managed to finish four times as many kits as me this year so far!

If the first off my workbench is as nice as this I will be pleased.

[alhenderson]

5 hours ago, AlxBNE said:

A very nice job you have done there.

You have managed to finish four times as many kits as me this year so far!

If the first off my workbench is as nice as this I will be pleased.

Thanks for the kind words. I usually manage only 3-4 in a year, on some kind of roll at the moment. Possibly helped by choosing easier subjects 😁

 

Al

[JWFP]

Very nice work and thank you for sharing it.

[bigbadbadge]

Great job on this beauty, looks fantastic.

Chris

[georgeusa]

That is a very nice looking Mosquito in a quite attractive PR Blue finish.  I agree, with the chosen finish, the exhausts really do stand out and look good.  Thanks for sharing.

[F-32]

Love that, looks brilliant