Every so often it is nice to build a kit that does not require much preparation, pre-planning, cleaning of parts, scratch building and major bodywork modification to get a good result. Essentially this means building a Tamiya kit. Tamiya represents the peak of engineering excellence in kit design and their 1:48 Mosquito kits are no exception.
This is their first offering the fighter-bomber FBVI. The last time I built an FBVI it was the 1:72 Airfix kit that I got from Woolworth's some time in the early 1970s! This time I intended to make a better job of it!
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The kit was assembled as per the instructions, the only modifications that I made were to cut off the wing flaps and re-assemble them in their lowered positions, and to drop the elevators. I used the kit supplied seatbelt decals, applying them to metal foil from a wine bottle top and then cutting them out once dry. They can then be applied to the finished cockpit seats like photoetched belts. I also applied strips of silver foil to form the straps around the tanks that fit between the undercarriage legs.
