My Mosquito Build By Wesley!

[wesleye18]

The guys on the hangout were being meanies and forced me to do this lol kidding, been wanting to build this kit for a little while and what better time to do it than now for Nige's build!

[Nige201980]

Great to have you aboard Wes.

[Coen]

We're not meanies! Now get to work ya slacker!

[DaveTheMinion]

Looking forward to your build mate, but what's a hangout and where are you doing this? does it involve a secret handshake or dressing up in strange costumes like a comicon event etc?

[wesleye18]

Build Update!!
been moving along on this build and loving this kit so far, bought the eduard etch set for the cockpit and the masking set for the canopy. got all the cockpit and everything painted and fuselage half's together and glued, just finished the wings and engines and starting to look good now, really nice kit and a decent size



parts all primed


interior and cockpit painted in mig olive drab light base, i did try using lifecolor interior green and just would not go right so just used the mig paint instead




Eduard cockpit set on the dashboard, looks really nice


cockpit and interior all together with the PE seat belts






And finally two halves together with the cockpit in and the wings glued together and just test fitted


Underside


and thats all my progress for the past few days, really like this kit and cant wait to start doing the camo pattern on it

[wesleye18]

Just a little extra work done tonight, put the nose parts on and the parts for the tail on

[Nige201980]

Cracking work Wes

[wesleye18]

Build Update!!!
Well i decided to change the mossie a bit, i decided i didn't want my bomb bay doors open so decided to have them closed for that sleek streamline look lol, Tonight while on the hangout paul gave me a hand (oo er) on panel line fading and drawing squiggly lines everywhere! right up my all LOL think he said its to make it look more faded or something when i paint over it but its all ready for painting tomorrow now



SQUIGGLES!!!!

[Coen]

Very cool Wes.
I'll bet Paul told you to do all those squiggles didn't he

[Nige201980]

Looking great Wes looking forward to seeing how it all works out.

[wappynutter]

Nice one Wes.....
Never seen squiggle preshading before....
I have seen various primer colours to aid in base colour modulation... Good luck dude..

[wesleye18]

Build update again!
Got the mossie all camo'd up and looking good, got the decals down as well now and all gloss coated, next thing to do is start of the weathering stage

[Nige201980]

Brilliant work mate.

[Avgas]

Great work, I'm liking the freehand camo painting, I think Paul does it that way as well.

[Coen]

Looks very cool Wes.