Complete Build - Super Detailing the Pre Hornby Airfix Mosquito Mk. XVIII

[@davidmarkey4353]

Nice to see this again. More please

[@jennajones4276]

Loved watching this!! Amazing work 👏🏼👏🏼

[@KABModels]

Thank you 🙏

[@davidAB779]

Great to see the full build and all the after market you added to the kit

[@KABModels]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@alyshabrown9466]

Beautiful mosquito 😊

[@KABModels]

Thank you! The mossie a great looking aircraft

[@MzStarr808]

Love it!! Although it does look like a lot of tedious additions it turned out awesome. Sorry a day behind was celebrating Kama's big 17th yesterday!!

[@natalebabbo-gunplaanddioramas]

Superb built! Bravo!

[@KABModels]

Thank you! Hope you are well

[@toboldlygosmodelworks1973]

Nice Work KAB

[@KABModels]

Thanks mate

[@Adam_Boots]

The reason that the red circles are seperate on the roundals is that when they were made they were not able to easily get multiple colours to print out perfectly aligned with each other. It was easier to print the red as a seperate piece and have the modeler align them themselves. If they had printed them in place any misalignment would be easily noticable and would detract feom a finished model. I've built one of these kits as an out the box build and even without extra detailing it looks good. With all the extra work you did you it really brings the model to life.

[@KABModels]

Thank you! the resin flaps were a lot of fun to put on!

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool. 🛩

[@KABModels]

Thanks Dan. Nice to see you again

[@DavidRLentz-b7i]

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 16 October, 2024) Which reminds me: Perhaps you might present us a build and detailing video of the Hornby era Mosquito bomber as a comparison. For that matter, what would be your assessments of Tamiya’s various kits of the Wooden Wonder: 1:72nd-scale, 1:48th-scale, and especially in 1:32nd-scale. Also, Airfix’s 1:24th-scale Mosquito fighter-bomber. I personally would like very much to see aftermarket multimedia conversion and detailing sets in 1:32nd- and 1:24th-scales to make of each kit a faithful reproduction of a Mk.IV light bomber and a Mk.II PR aircraft.

[@KABModels]

Ihave the tamiya 1/72nd, I've already built the tamiya 1/48th (link here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIKWg6Fud9CVrqM) but that was straight out of the box, with no conversion work. I restored a 32nd scale Revell Mossie, but infortunately that was before youtube days, and sadly, i cant afford the 200-300 odd quid it will take to purchase the airfix 24th scale mossie, as they are discontinued and therefore sell for exorbitant prices, IF you can find one. I may conisder doing the Revell 32nd scale again though, so keep your eyes peeled!

[@DavidRLentz-b7i]

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 16 October, 2024) I have fond remembrances as a boy (I was a comparatively small, thin youngster in a family of comparable giants!) of Airfix 1:72nd-scale kits of Second World War military æroplanes, especially those of the RAF and the FAA. My collection (all “constant scale”, as Revell then had termed it; being quite poor at maths, I very much had delighted in having some means visually to assess proportionality, ratios, etc.) of more than seventy models comprised combat aircraft predominantly of the USAAF and the U.S. Navy (I cannot recall if any had been in service with the USMC). The British firm had enabled me to find models of the de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Mk.IV light bomber, the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Fighter, the Avro Lancaster RAF four-engine heavy bomber, long recognised for its cavernous bomb bay; incidentally, has Airfix offered a mark with the Bristol Hercules 14-cylinder radial engines (as well as one with a set of the Rolls- Royce Merlin V-1650 12 cylinder water-cooled motors, for that matter)? Next was the Handley-Page Halifax RAF four-engine heavy bomber, coincidentally, with four Bristol Hercules radials (if memory serves), both kits of which I had constructed airborne, en route to Nazi Germany’s industrial centre. The Short Stirling had been the RAF’s third big warbird. I quite enjoyed its tow tractor and heavily laden bomb trolleys; these were my reason for building the lengthy plane aground, as it underwent preparatory servicing prior to a nocturnal, secret sortie somewhere in Nazi-held Europe. The Vickers Wellington RAF Medium Bomber many had known for its geodesic construction. (I to my regret cannot recall the mark numbers of these latter aircraft; at that age, I most likely would not have grasped the scope and the significance of such classification to have been able to factor it.) In watching your build, I very much enjoyed your fashioning improvements with Czech Master Kits (CMK) resin aftermarket conversion sets (round 1:30 in your video); I am quite myopic, which ironically facilitates my seeing up close (roughly 10 cm), toward effecting better fine detailing. In any actual scratch-building of particular parts, fixtures, components, etc., however, these fiddly bits usually being one-offs, in my experience unfortunately have lacked the uniformity that standardisation offers. Also, I often lack the depth of knowledge of aircraft equipment to apply to a particular apparatus an accurate recreation in miniature. Despite your mistake with the empennage, you give us viewers a serviceable presentation with good results-as well as a lesson on the importance of proper procedure in preparing for implementation resin parts. At 5:03, you describe something as “an absolute faff (sp?)”. Might I enquire, please, as to its meaning? At 5:30 and after, you ingeniously devise ways to include the Merlin engines, incorporating them into the appreciably smaller nacelles. Even beyond your engaging assembly of one of my favourite airborne combatants, your resourcefulness intrigued me. Some model builders (perhaps most) draw the line at detailing a replica in so small a scale. Years past, I had seen in the publication Fine Scale Modeler a feature on an astoundingly skilful super-detailer (I cannot recall his name, nor when the magazine had presented the article; I believe that he was a machinist or engineer who worked with fine metal fixtures) who had spent years applying his painstaking polystyrene powers to a Tamiya 1:350th-scale kit of a Fletcher-class U.S. Navy World War Two destroyer (which specific vessel I cannot recall), in which he added an estimated 11,000 parts (yes, eleven thousand!), including scale-thin wire to represent the railings, upon which he somehow had soldered upon all the vertical stands the horizontal cabling (I do not know the proper terminology of shipboard fixtures)! I have to wonder what this man could do with Revell Germany’s 1:144th-scale kit of this ship, which is 2.43 times larger than the smaller model.

[@KABModels]

Apologies: faff is an interchangeable word for something that is fiddly, or to mess about. IE I was ‘faffing about cutting bits off when I didn’t need to be’ as an example

[@DavidRLentz-b7i]

@@KABModels No worries. I like learning something new.