Civvie Mossie

Not ‘Civvie’ – but how about a US-marked version?

Found this whilst browsing Google:

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/dehavilland-dh98-mosquito.jpg

Ive heard that the break down of the airfix 1/24 offering suggests a bomber nosed version with later stage merlins and poss bulged bombay at a later date.

I was looking at this kit in the model shop in Hull the other day, looks realy, realy nice. I dont think I would buy one though. Its an expensive bit of kit and I would just make a mess of it.
How about posting a build in the model section. Its very quiet in there !
Have you looked at Spartan Air Service schemes.

Ben

Beny beat me to it. Spartan Air Service scheme would be a good choice!

If it’s the FB.VI kit you’re doing, you could perhaps do a wartime BOAC scheme? Some decent profiles at the bottom of this page:

http://home.online.no/~vingtor/Mosquito/Mosquito-feature.html

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An ex-RAAF Australian built PR41 (ie solid/fighter nose as per FBVI) entered in the 1953 England to NZ air race??

I understand the colour was a crimson red???

http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austcl/VH-KLG.html

Regards

Mark Pilkington

Beautiful 😀

Thanks, I couldn’t find a better type to model…

Found a few Bendix racers; this one was the front runner until your post

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=94127

Hope more like that one are out there – what a great forum!

The Ampol racer is gorgeous, and I’ve seen colour shots of 1/72 efforts on the web, so it’s a good candidate.

You might also try to track down some shots of the “Sharkmouth” Bendix racer – motif on the nose and both wing drop tanks. There’s a pic in the recent “Mosquito” special edition from our friends at Key.

Two slides from the late Peter Foote collection. Poorly exposed and deterioted to the point of ‘almost beyond recoverey’… but colour never the less.

Mark

Mark 12 – Mossie shot cleaned up and adjusted a bit. Let me know if I’m treading on toes and I’ll take this down again, 🙂

I have a plan I hope you guys can help with

Has anyone ever seen a pic of a Mosquito in civilian livery?

I am looking for an unusual scheme for 1/24 kit (arriving tomorrow, I am in bits) and would love to do a silver/white version or something like that

It would be a heavy conversion if it is glass nosed, but hell it will take me a couple of years anyway

Here’s hoping…

BOAC operated Mossies, but in the camo with civilian registrations and the large national stripes applied to the rear sides and wings, they seemed to have had a mix of bomber and fighter variants.

For silver painted, there were the RAF post-war PR Mossie variants in use right into the 1950s, not to mention the lovely liveried TT variants used into the ’60s at Exeter.

Mark 12 – Mossie shot cleaned up and adjusted a bit. Let me know if I’m treading on toes and I’ll take this down again, 🙂

Start from here. 🙂

Hi,

There was a civy version of a MkXVIII Tsetse. This was the Tsetse that was sent to the US for trials in 1944. It survived post war and was used in a World record attempt, but suffered a landing accident before the event.

It was silver overall with the legend, ‘The Silver Streak’ in red and red engine cowlings. I’ll try and dig out some photos later today.

Alex

Start from here. 🙂

******!

you’ll have to give me a minute, or three!

Quick ‘n dirty… much still to do if I was really on it today…

Before it went to the USA …CF-FZG had this rather nice colour scheme (from Don Macvicar website)

4th July 1956. I had just arrived at Woolsington (Newcastle) Airport. “Anything in?” I asked my friends. “No, just that Mosquito over there” said one of them, pointing to an obvious Auster 5. “Eh?” says I. “Look in the book if you don’t believe me!”. So I did and in the latest edition of Civil Aircraft Markings, there it was – G-AOCP Mosquito.
I never did find out why!
Jim

http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac1/austcl/VH-KLG.html

Daft question removed – but – is that a recon pod under the fuselage? Looks odd.

Extra fuel tank ?

What livery did the 3 Mosquitos wear before they were incinerated in a hangar fire at Idris? They were (as far as I am aware) being used by Airwork, or Hunting Clan, or similar, to map Libya prior to the major oil explorations. The problem was that quite a lot of Libya moves from day-to-day! A set of barchans (sand-dunes) at one location photographed on one day can be very much different on the next day, or week, or month!
HTH
Resmoroh