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Just finished my Airfix Mossie, pic's.
garrybeebe
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 07:37 AM UTC
This is airfix's 1/72 scale J.30 Mosquito used by the Swedish airforce in 1949. This is one of the better kits from Airfix I am told, and after building the kit I tend to agree with that. I chose to do the bull nose version becouse it looks so different! This kit allows you to build three different versions. And at the price is a great value. Here's the pic's.







It was a fun little build, and gave me a break from Armor.

Cheers,

Garry
lestweforget
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 09:01 AM UTC
Looks good! Nice clean build by the looks of it.
great job!
cheers
Angela
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 09:32 AM UTC
Very nice.

A little weathering and it would be perfect!

Very good job.

Angela
Mech-Maniac
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 09:35 AM UTC
if i'm not mistaken, there is a swedish campaign going on...i think? is that what its for? if not oh well, looks good, and an interesting model!
ThomasB
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 10:04 AM UTC
Nice to see something Swedish. A really nice looking build you got there.
chip250
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 12:18 PM UTC
Thats a really nice build! I like that you picked a differant country other than England!

Nice plane!

~Chip
winchweight
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 04:26 PM UTC
Good work, my favorite model too!! Can't really go into the Swedish Steel campaign though, it balsa wood!!

brandydoguk
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 05:05 PM UTC
Looks good Garry. I agree it's nice to see a mossie in different markings to he usual RAF scheme.
flitzer
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 05:09 PM UTC
A lovely looking job.
And it is nice to see Sweden represented.
As to weathereing...I like it the way it is, if a clean depiction is intended.
If weathering is your bag, then yes a little would not go amiss....but only a touch such as a little smoke and burnt metal on the exhausts.
Its all down to your taste.
The exhausts are very nice anyway and look like real metal...is it metalcote or some other exotic metal finisher..?

Cheers
Peter
:-)
garrybeebe
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 10:40 PM UTC

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if i'm not mistaken, there is a swedish campaign going on...i think? is that what its for? if not oh well, looks good, and an interesting model!


Hi Shain,
No I did'nt build this one for the campaign, I just prefered these markings and the version represented for this plane. Thanks for the complements!

Garry
garrybeebe
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2004 - 10:50 PM UTC

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A lovely looking job.
And it is nice to see Sweden represented.
As to weathereing...I like it the way it is, if a clean depiction is intended.
If weathering is your bag, then yes a little would not go amiss....but only a touch such as a little smoke and burnt metal on the exhausts.
Its all down to your taste.
The exhausts are very nice anyway and look like real metal...is it metalcote or some other exotic metal finisher..?

Cheers
Peter
:-)


Thanks for the kind words Peter!
I do usualy weather my aircraft a bit. This was a build to get me out of the rut so to speak, so I just wanted to do a clean build. I used Model masters Titanium buffing metalizer on the exhaust. I use this same paint a lot for different metal finishes, including for gun metal . It kind of looks like a worn and polished finish.

Regards,

Garry
flitzer
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Posted: Sunday, September 19, 2004 - 05:15 PM UTC

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Model masters Titanium

Thanks Garry...
I must put this on the top of my shopping list for when I'm out of here and at place that has...drool...MODEL SHOPS...lol.

Cheers
Peter
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