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Prototype Mosquito starting point?
Topic Started: Apr 8 2018, 02:32 AM (99 Views)
jvenables
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Leading on from my last question (decided a new thread would be most appropriate), what do others recommend as the best starting point to do the prototype Mossie?

I almost attempted one many years ago using the Matchbox kit, when it was the best bomber-nose Mosquito available in this scale. I assume the Tamiya B.Mk.IV kit would be the starting point of choice these days...?

I have a set of resin short nacelles & tailplanes that I picked up from the SAM Publications website about a decade ago and whilst I don't recall which kit they are supposed to fit, I'd make a guess that they are for the Tamiya Mk.IV. From memory they were marketed as PR nacelles so I'm not sure how different they would be to those on the prototype. I expect they are probably not too different, if at all.

The Sam Publications Modeller's Datafile for the Mosquito describes building a prototype but not in our scale.
James from Brisbane, Australia
Now living in Laos

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woody
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I have those nacelles also, as I recall they are for the Tamiya kit. Between the conversion article and drawings everything you need to know for the conversion is in the SAM Datafile.
Cheers,
Woody
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