Allan's progress on a 1/24 scale Airfix Mosquito

The following are a few pictures of work in progress on the Airfix 1/24 scale Mosquito VI. I like the kit a lot although storage will be a bit of an issue. However, there are a few areas that needs a bit of upgrading. The wings lack the reinforcing tape, which was applied over the wing spars and under the forward mounts for the rocket rails. There are three approaches I have seen. The first is to use parallel strips of tape as templates, put putty between, and sand back to the tape. The remaining two use plastic strip. Strip 0.005 thick would scale out to 1/8 inch thick and is probably the correct thickness. I saw this used in one build. However, I found that gluing even 0.01 strips resulted in some surface unevenness. I opted to use Evergreen 0.01 thick # 108 strip because was the proper width. This was first attached with Krazy glue and a small amount of Tenax 7 was run along the edge. I applied thick Humbrol oil paint to fill any gaps as well as to guide sanding.

All the plates than had the edges beveled and were sanded down to approximately 0.005 inches in thickness. This picture also shows a template of the rear plate made with 6 mm Tamiya tape. The next pictures show the template applied to the Evergreen strip and the plate in place.

The final picture shows the references used, Mosquito VI by SAM Publications being particularly helpful and still available. (insert picture 0476 here)