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Duke Maddog wrote:That's beautiful Stuart, far better than my childhood work. However, it seems a tad incomplete without the tail insignia on it. No biggie, it is your model and I understand any reasons for not having it.

When I made that comment about masking, I meant I didn't mask the canopies. I just brush painted the lines on them for the canopy frames.

lol no worries Mark - I didn't mask the canopy either

It does have swastikas on the tail, you just can't see them in this dark image.

Excellent. Good to know.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Got the construction on the Mossie finished last weekend, eneded up going together better than i had expected given its age.



The gun troughs underneath were filled in as per the pics i found.



Followed by some painting. Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey on top, Sky undersides. All Xtracolor.





Decals are from a company called Vingtor Decals. This set provides markings for the 6 original Mk VI aircraft operated by BOAC from mid 1943 as well as 3 replacment aircraft recieved in 44. While the first 6 had the Sky undersides, these were re-painted black after several months of operations. The 3 replacments came with black undersides. I have done one of the original 6 in its delivery scheme.





The larger outer strips on the underside did not conform well to the large hinges for the flaps. The decal sheet recomends the Tamiya kit and looking at the one i built last year, i think these would work much better on that kit.



Weathering will be limited to some light exhaust staining as i want to show an aircraft as delivered.

Looks good. I read this story somewhere. Brilliant use of the a/c.

Superb looking build Bish - you did well with those decals!

I like the markings. Never seen one with numbers on wing tops and undersides. A lovely build. Well done, Bish!

Cheers guys. It is different, thats what caught my atention when i saw the decals. I was not aware of these aircraft being used by BOAC until i saw them.

Most impressive result form the painting and decals. Thanks for the memories too. While I didn't do this scheme, I did build one of these in my youth.

Very nice!

Thanks guys.

Duke, i have built this before as well, i did the all black NF version. It was a pretty nice dio as well for one of my early ones, just gutted it didn't survive.