Airfix 1/24 Mosquito - Construction begins

Hi Everyone - I hope that you're all well today!

Well, here we go - the assembly of the incredible Airfix Mossie.

The first thing that needs to be said about this kit is that it's big! 27" from wing tip to wing tip is stretching my bench to breaking point and certainly helps to focus the mind when it comes to painting; from the off I've been trying to decide how to paint and weather this one because I feel that I will need to adjust my technique to make the model look realistic. When I've decided on just how I'm going to do that, I let you know!

Anyhoo, as you can see I've started work on the cockpit and airframe and though it looks like I've made some real headway, it perhaps needs to be pointed out that I've only completed just over a fifth of the model at this point - there is still some way to go! The cockpit is around half finished at the moment and still needs to be fully painted and some of its smaller details fixed in place along with some seat straps, gunsight, radios, minor details and internal framing - which will make the whole thing look superb, the radios being particularly impressive. The only aspect of construction that could have been worked on are the ejector pin marks inside the cockpit which are visible in the pictures, though I'm sure that they will be all but invisible inside the completed model (why work on something that can't be seen, I say?!). The other thing that can be said here is that the fit of the parts is really something to behold. Up to this point I've used no filler at all, all joints simply needing to be sanded smooth. The wing to fuselage is particularly accurate, only Liquid Poly being needed to produce a perfect joint...

I hope that you like it! I certainly do..!!!

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