Operation Jericho Completed 6/3/17 Tamiya 1/32 DeHavilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI

Bomb bay doors installed.

 Tools attached to the bomb bay doors.  This is very cool.

I just started working on the clear parts of the clear cowling.  Utilizing CA for the magnets, I'm very careful not to get it cloudy.

Toshi

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The clear cowling looks like #%^>€£>~%^!!!  So I'm going to leave everything open.  Tamiya, this is a bad call! 

Some time ago, I built a Me 262 and a SBD Dauntless.  These were visible CLEAR parts that you could see through.  For the kind of money I paid, you would thing Tamiya would be a little smarter!

 P.S.  The Me 262 and the SBD Dauntless were trumpeter 1/32 kits.  Shame on you Tamiya!

Absolutely unexceptable!

Oh ya that's total BS. What a joke. You need to write a strongly written letter. Are you going to paint the clear one then?

Griffin25

Oh ya that's total BS. What a joke. You need to write a strongly written letter. Are you going to paint the clear one then?

 

As for painting the clear part I will not do so.  I will completely delete the cowling's and show off all my work in the Merlin and the Merlin's engine mounts via so to speak naked.  

I did this with my Trumpeter P-38 Lightning and it look just stunning and beautiful.  I think I can achieve that same scenario with the Mossie!  Thank you for your information as well as your support and visit in my build.

Toshi

As you can see, or cannot see, LOL!  I'm going to use the so called clear cowlings as masks for the entire Merlin then when I'm done AB the Mossie I'll simply remove the panels to show off the Merlins.

Toshi

Here's a good example of masking. 

yeah the clear looks bad but the detail and the work you've done are out of this world!

iampiper13

yeah the clear looks bad but the detail and the work you've done are out of this world!

 

Toshi

Reference the clear parts, I recall with the 1/32 Tamiya Corsair I'm building came with a sheet telling you ow to improve the clarity of the clear parts.  I think you have to spray them with their clear gloss or something. It wasn't my bag so I really didn't pay it much mind.  Try and find it for your Mossie.  

Otherwise, that looks great! 

lawdog114

Reference the clear parts, I recall with the 1/32 Tamiya Corsair I'm building came with a sheet telling you ow to improve the clarity of the clear parts.  I think you have to spray them with their clear gloss or something. It wasn't my bag so I really didn't pay it much mind.  Try and find it for your Mossie.  

 

Otherwise, that looks great! 

 

toshi

Well that is a shame Toshi.  I would expect more from them as well.  Glad you have been able to improvise!  Keep up the good work!

In reality I'm not sure if the cowlings would be completely detached from the airframe for maintenance but, if you had some sort of small diorama in mind, might you not paint them and then show them beneath the Mossie as if the maintenance mechanics had put them there? Sorry if this is a stupid suggestion - just trying to provide an idea to use those parts.

Your build is fascinating and I'm im awe of the detail in the kit and how you've managed to bring it all together so far.

You're doing a great job!!

 I would not use any of the clear parts on this model, it will detract all the fine detail you added.  You are wise to show the plane as if it was going through an inspection and have all the access panels removed.  

Those spanner wrenches are so real!

Scott,

Is your reasoning because the "clear" panels on Toshi's kit are not detailed/thin/realistic enough to paint? Or, perhaps, because they'd have to be in several pieces to represent the actual panels? Just curious.

I gather you live near Schanueiyite Martin Johnson Airport?

Keyda81

Well that is a shame Toshi.  I would expect more from them as well.  Glad you have been able to improvise!  Keep up the good work!

 

Toshi

1943Mike

In reality I'm not sure if the cowlings would be completely detached from the airframe for maintenance but, if you had some sort of small diorama in mind, might you not paint them and then show them beneath the Mossie as if the maintenance mechanics had put them there? Sorry if this is a stupid suggestion - just trying to provide an idea to use those parts.

Your build is fascinating and I'm im awe of the detail in the kit and how you've managed to bring it all together so far.

You're doing a great job!!

 

Toshi

scottrc

 I would not use any of the clear parts on this model, it will detract all the fine detail you added.  You are wise to show the plane as if it was going through an inspection and have all the access panels removed.  

Those spanner wrenches are so real!

 

Toshi

P.S. Those spanner wrenches are awesome aren't they!  

1943Mike

Scott,

Is your reasoning because the "clear" panels on Toshi's kit are not detailed/thin/realistic enough to paint? Or, perhaps, because they'd have to be in several pieces to represent the actual panels? Just curious.

I gather you live near Schanueiyite Martin Johnson Airport?

 

 

Hi Mike,

I think Toshi and I both agree that the panels were not only frosted, but thick and obtrusive and deter from the details of the rest of the model.  They could be painted and used, or maybe sanded thinner, painted, and cut into actual panel sections.  Of left off completely and all those nice details open to the admired. 

Osa Martin Johnson Airport to be excact

Regards,

Scott

Tamiya masks have to be some of the best.