Hi Guys,

No problem but the Mossie is the first plane I have come across with tailor made "conformal" tanks if you exclude the wierd belly tanks on the Me110 and Spitfire. Bit like the slipper tanks that were on the Buccaneer and the "FAST" packs on the Strike Eagle. Probably gave a lot less drag I guess.

Cheers,

Pete

Update...

The Wooden Wonder is nearing completion of the base model. Ray (the wonder of the Virginia Shore) has finished my many, many, many.... tweaks and I am ready to paint the squadron. Hopefully it will be an early Christmas present to the community.

IM

Hi Guys,

Sounds good to me. As I recall the stock Mossie is a B Mk IV which would normally have operated in daylight without fighter cover early on due to its speed advantage, but then switched to night bombing together with the later bomber versions once the Fw 190 appeared making it rather more vulnerable, so replacing that with the FB Mk VI opens up a lot of options. Of course with the much improved ground targets now available on EAW including realistic ships, the the Coastal Command variants are perhaps tempting with their different overwing roundels with the thin white ring and red codes, not to mention the small number of so called "Tse Tse" FB Mk XVIII with the 6 pounder 57mm Molins gun, which might appeal to Ray, as might the dedicated night fighter versions.

Pete

4 Mosquitos from 605 Squadron

6 more are finished

Nice work Ray and Mike on the model and skins.

Sorry to say guys, but the Mossie has always disappointed me in EAW, not from the model point of view, but the way is behaves in the game.

It never uses it's speed advantage, and tend to be sitting ducks, which they never where.

good job with this long awaited hr version blokes...
i'm not normally a riveter, however a couple of
things are noticeable....

underside paint job usually extended up to the wing
roots level, nose tip to tail bulge...



in pic 3 the prop spinners appear undersized and not
flushing with the engine cowls...as in pic 1.. can
this be fixed?

i'm sure if this were a german plane you'd have heard
from fran by now....

The paint job will be up to Mike to fix.

The spinner problem is probably just a "normals" recalculation. I'll take a look.

Hi Ray

Any plans to do a proper Bomber version?

Shouldn't be too much to do. Probably more of a skinning issue and a few 3dz tweaks.

I'd need some pics to work from ( Peter????? )