Norway WWII Group Build 2009

stikpusher - mosquito looks good so far. IP decal looks sweet. Good info on the decals, will have to look for them!

 Hey stikpusher, The fit of the fuselage halves looks pretty good. I always liked the lines of the Mosquito. On my top five list of favorite WWII twin engined fighters, the Mosquito ranks #2, just under the P-38, the Twin Tailed Devil.

 Looking forward to updates,

 Hey Huxy, would an He 219 night fighter qualify for this GB? The Tamiya kit has markings for 3/NJG, stationed in Denmark?

 Mobious

Stikpusher great work on getting everything together.

Jason

Ok, more progress during the day today. I got the fuselage halves glued together, sanded, and rescribed all lost lines. Once that was completed I added the wings and horizontal stabilizers. I still need to sand the fuselage/vertical stabilizer seams smoothe. Here are a few more progress shots. Almost ready for the main painting!

I'm glad you guys like it so far. I see so much more I can do witht his kit, but as I said before, this is straight OOB and with a definite time limit on the finish line. 

I used the old Monogram Pro Modeler decals for RAF fighters. It has several IP decals for the Mosquito NF II. There are correctly configured, but not quite siz matched for this old kit. So I sliced up the sheet a bit to position match the kit instruments better. The sheet also has multiple sets of individual instruments of various types to use as you choose. I used a few of those for solitary guages that were not covered. I use Micro Sol to try to get all the decals to snuggle down on to the panel better. Betwen those and the painting methods I used, I think the IP came out fairly well.

This morning I glued the fuselage halves together after putting in the bombardiers side windows. This afternoon/evening will be sanding the seams and filler where needed....

good job .  how did you do the ip with the decals

Jason

The cockpit is now painted. Here are a few shots. I detailed the IP with a mix of fine tip painting, Pro Modeler instrument decals and some wash/dry brushing.

...more to follow by Sunday...

Great work so far stikpusher

I finally started glueing on the condor

Jason

Take your time, Mobious!!   You got like till september...

Mosquito is looking great! What green you use? 

 Hey stikpusher, the Mosquito is looking good. A really neat subject. Looking forward to progress updates.

 Huxy, glad to hear you recieved a response from Airfix and they are willing to correct the prop.

 Currently working on another project, need to get at least one of the GB's finished  before I am able to start on the FW. I have all the parts2starts, but no time in the schedule.

 Keep up the fun everyone and keep posting the pics.

 Mo.

I got the wng halves glued together, but not yet sanded. I added some bare metal foil to the inner face of the underwing landing lights. All surfaces that will be visible once built have been painted RAF interior green. The cockpit is still getting the finishing touches painted.

Ignore the messy workdesk...

Lads!! Guys!! Guess what!!

You still remember the propellor problem?  Just received an E-mail from Hornby (They who own Airfix) and this is what it says:

"I do apologise for the delay in replying to you. I am sending you a new propellor in the post, but having inspected a few kits, it looks like it may be an issue with the old tooling, so I am asking our engineering department to look into it further."

I'm damn great they look into the problem further.. And I'll see which propellor looks best.. mine or theirs..  So a replacing mine may be happening...  Just wanted to give you all the heads up!!

-Huxy 

Can't wait to see it, JMart.. the ship that carried Hitler on his only visit to Norway in the 30's...  =)

And my main build season is.. I really don't know... Haven't built for that long to know it  

Gladiator looking good...

I wont start my build till summer time, have a few Gbs to finish first and summer is my main "build" season. : )

Huxy I like your answer thats what I was thinking

Jason

Well, just to try to get this going again, build the FW 200... Then the 109 ;)

And anyone else, start building!!

I'll get mine under the airbrush as soon as possible.. 

Huxy thanks for updating that  your plane is looking grea. Now I just have to try and get motivated and start something. I would like to take a poll on which one to start first

1 MPM 109 T,  2  revell 72 fw 200 condor

First to 5 wins

Jason

Sorry for late update, chaps! 

Stikpusher: You are on the roster... but is that mosquito by Tamiya?

jay12472: You're on the roster with yet another kit!

JMart: Thanks on the propellor!

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Then to my little update......

I'm got shortly the entire plane assembled (Missing two exhaustpipes and the rudder) and then going to add wire to the wings in an X shape here and there, as in the real thing, and paint it up...

The wheels had some annoying flash, but it went clean off with some fancy knifehandling... Cleaned wheel to the left and "dirty" to the right.. 

And here she is so far! Note the sideways rudder... Not attached yet, just a temp. there...

Enjoy!

-Huxy 

Huxy I found another one for the build. Fw 200 condor 1/72 Revell kit

Jason

Norway WWII Group Build 2009

Mobious - very nice job so far, good scratchbuilding. Indeed fast building!  You can put a drop of future/Klear on the lenses to give it that shiny/lens light look. Very good paint job and all in place!

Huxy - good work recovering the prop wrappage.

mg.mikael - I have that Tristar in my stash, look forward to your build!

Huxy wrote:

I always wonder how you find exactly that building, in such a city, and actually hits it...

mg.mikael, The Tristar kit sounds like a really nice kit with all the details & decals all in one box. Very interested in this build and will be attentively watching. I've never built a Tristar, but have heard a lot of praise for their releases.

 Mobi