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

DasBeav

Exceptional detail work, Toshi! You must have the hands of a surgeon. With diet soda or tea (HATE COFFEE) in the morning and working out at night, my hands are to jittery to even attempt the work you do. I am finally getting a Tamiya paint stand this week so I can paint with two hands, one to hold the brush and one to hold my hand to keep it from shaking so much! lol. I can't wait to see how the Mosquito turns out.

PS... You got to love Ohios weather.

 

The Tamiya paint stand is a life saver.  It does a million and one things for me and I love it!  I remember days without it, it was a disaster!  LOL!  One of the reasons we moved from Palm Springs, California was the great kind of weather we have here in Ohio.  LOL!

Actually, my wife's sister lives here in Ashtabula, Ohio of which is an hour and fifthteen minutes drive from where we are.  That's why we moved. We actually like the seasonal changes,   it's just beautiful.  

Toshi

Beautiful job on the office there Toshi. Your sure doing justice to this amazingly detailed kit. 

P.S. I do miss the seasonal changes Ohio has to offer but the hour by hour weather changes    and snow..faget about it

Jay Jay

Beautiful job on the office there Toshi. Your sure doing justice to this amazingly detailed kit. 

P.S. I do miss the seasonal changes Ohio has to offer but the hour by hour weather changes    and snow..faget about it

 

Yes, the seasonal changes are beautiful.  Especially spring and autumn.  I like spring because everything blooms, and I love autumn for the changes in the color of the leaves.

As for the snow?  It's great for Christmas Day.  But after that, I agree with you.  It gets to you.  LOL!

Toshi

Beautiful details so far, Toshi. Looking great.

BK

BrandonK

Beautiful details so far, Toshi. Looking great.

BK

 

Toshi

7474

Great work Toshi.

 

Toshi

Been a few days since I looked in on the build.  As usual, you are doing great with it.  The pit is super.

Glad to see you're taking time with it, and enjoying it.  Not your usual 3 day build of a kit, LOL!  Keep it up, look forward to more as you get deeper into it.

Nice work Toshi.

The pit is built up, scuffed up, and dirtified just right.  Looks like a well worn pit.

Chris

goldhammer

Been a few days since I looked in on the build.  As usual, you are doing great with it.  The pit is super.

 

Glad to see you're taking time with it, and enjoying it.  Not your usual 3 day build of a kit, LOL!  Keep it up, look forward to more as you get deeper into it.

 

Toshi

Bossman

Nice work Toshi.

The pit is built up, scuffed up, and dirtified just right.  Looks like a well worn pit.

Chris

 

Toshi

Assembly sheet #10

Installation of 7.7mm Browning Machine Guns 

Installed two of four 7.7mm Browning Machine Guns.

Nice, Toshi! That IP is gorgeous! Looking nice and scruffy in there.  :)

M. Brindos

Nice, Toshi! That IP is gorgeous! Looking nice and scruffy in there.  :)

 

Toshi

Assembly page #10 7.7mm Browning Machine Guns

All four 7.7mm Browning Machine Guns.  I'm jumping a little ahead of myself, but there are four more Hispano 20mm cannons that need to be assembled as well.  Man this thing with it's speed is ferocious!

I added Tamiya Wertherine soot to the compartments.  Due to the 7.7mm Machine Guns recoil.

assembly page #11 

mawright20

Operation Jericho...the walls DID come down!!!

 

Toshi

Toshi,

That is a lot of detail and its looking good.  Have you been testing its fit in the fuselage?  Just asking, based from experience, Murphy will always make a fuselage become 1mm shorter in diameter in relation to the expense and amount of detail put into a cockpit.

Moving along nicely Toshi, my apologies for not checking in regularly.....life kinda gets in the way. Thank you for posting WIP pix, I'm excited to see the finished product. Build on good sir.

scottrc

Toshi,

That is a lot of detail and its looking good.  Have you been testing its fit in the fuselage?  Just asking, based from experience, Murphy will always make a fuselage become 1mm shorter in diameter in relation to the expense and amount of detail put into a cockpit.

 

I have been dry fitting everything and it looks good, thanks to Tamiya's engineering.  I finally got around in spraying the fueselauge with Tamiya's  XF-71.  Thank's for visiting my Mosquito thread.

Toshi

Looking good the large scale doses have it's up side.

armornut

Moving along nicely Toshi, my apologies for not checking in regularly.....life kinda gets in the way. Thank you for posting WIP pix, I'm excited to see the finished product. Build on good sir.

 

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking your valuable time in visiting my Mosquito thread.  I'm most honored and humbled.

As for being excited about seeing the final production, I too am extremely ecstatic in my finalization of this massive kit.  Once again, thank you so very much in your read and replies!

Toshi