1/24 Airfix Scale Mosquito build

[HubertB]

Peter, of Airscale, did some PE « rivetting rulers », useful for various scales. You might try to contact him and see whether he still has some available.

Great job on this Mossie.

Hubert

[PeteF]

Scratch building parts has its challenges. The Mossy has more of the same part in each nacelle than "mirrored" parts. I keep screwing up left and right. Made progress with the wheel wells. Note the retract piston is on the same side of each nacelle.

[PeteF]

Test fitting the most fiddly landing gear ever. There are still 4 additional parts!

[Grunhertz]

That looks great 

[Wingco57]

11 hours ago, PeteF said:

Scratch building parts has its challenges. The Mossy has more of the same part in each nacelle than "mirrored" parts. I keep screwing up left and right. Made progress with the wheel wells. Note the retract piston is on the same side of each nacelle.

That's what the real Mossie had too. The undercarriage legs are not handed and one set of tooling can be used to make a complete set of undercarriage legs.

Very nice work on those nacelles.

Cheers

Cees

[Peterpools]

Pete

Mighty nice work on the gear . Complicated doesn’t come close

Keep ‘em

comin

Peter

[PeteF]

Finished the landing gear (other than adding the brake tube to the wheels and the gear door guards). Fiddly...even knowing it was fiddly it was a 2 day grind to get it all right. Had issues with the resin wheels/tires with paint lifting even though I'd primered them so had to fix that with a brush and had to sleeve the axles to fit the wheels...lots of scratch built detail that was missing from the wheel wells. Broke parts that had to be fixed in-situ...yeah this would never have lasted as all-plastic gear. Pretty satisfying to have it done though. Have to finish one of the engines then can put the nacelles together.

[harv]

....Harv

[PeteF]

Couple more shots. Muddy fenders, extended stencil decals from Barracuda and double the trouble.

[Mikester]

Wow!  Words escape me, so just wow!

[Grunhertz]

Nice!!!!!!! 

[Jeff]

Looking, rather Spot On, I'd say, nice job, look s real...... I'm liking this a lot....

[DocRob]

Great result, shame, that all the fine work will be partly hidden in the nacelles.

Cheers Rob

[PeteF]

12 hours ago, DocRob said:

Great result, shame, that all the fine work will be partly hidden in the nacelles.

Cheers Rob

So much of the detail in this plane is on the bottom that I’m going to display it on a mirror.

[PeteF]

Had to scratch build the exhaust shrouds. Thinking about this plane, the exhaust stacks were well shrouded so wouldn't have rusted as much as, say, a Spitfire so I went for heat colors.

[PeteF]

Test fit with and without the shroud.

[PeteF]

Finally some bits that are starting to resemble an aircraft.

[Grunhertz]

Good stuff! 

[Jeff]

LOVE the exhaust pipes....

[PeteF]

All plumbed. Two airplane parts!

[Uncarina]

Beautiful work Pete! Very impressive.

Cheers,  Tom

[Clunkmeister]

Speechless!  Almost.

A clinic is being conducted here. Amazing work, sir. Just amazing.

[Grunhertz]

That looks beautiful nice work 

[PeteF]

Thanks for the kind words. Actually I'm finding that I'm struggling with the same issue I used to have with modeling which is the basic assembly. I'm using too much glue, having trouble filling and leveling the seams and breaking parts that don't naturally end up where they should be. I find that the intermediate years have taught me a lot about painting and detailing and have given me a much greater subject matter understanding (which makes it easier to interpret photos and diagrams into actual parts) but I still can't seem to do basic things like cut a piece of styrene pipe straight or make a little "box" that is symmetrical. There seems to be a finite "resolution" to how fiddly of things I can accurately make. I'd be hopeless in 1/48 scale LOL.

[Martinnfb]

Nice job Pete, not sure if this can be of any help, For rivets Ive been using standard jewellers beading tool. It comes in many sizes.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/23Pc-Handmade-Setting-Beading-Grain-Jewelry-Tool-Diamond-Stone-Beader-Set-Graver/401503836828?epid=9002917188&hash=item5d7b7e5a9c:g:myQAAOSwwvZZOmlA