[gallery] Mosquito FB VI - Orlik

Hello everybody!

Today I'd like to show some pictures of my recently completed Mosquito Fb VI - issued by Orlik, designed by Lukasz Fuczek.
The model is made without landing gear - to make it look good under the ceiling

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Greetings,
Pawel

Hi Norman!

Thank you.
The nose and spinners are covered with cyanoacrylate and sanded.
Spinners were painted with Humbrol enamel, the nose got some dry chalk rubbed in.

Greetings,
Pawel

Thank you guys for nice comments

Norman - by dry chalk I mean something like colour pencil, grit to powder on a piece of fine sand paper. I used it to camouflage the joints between segments and hide the thickness of cyjanoacrylate on the nose. This technique gives you a semi-transparent layer with very smooth borders so that you can get uniform-looking surface with original printed colours still visible.

Josve - the fit is generally quite good, there are some points where special attention is needed though. The framework of front part of fuselage (with cockpit and armament bay) is long with many joints and thus doesn't ensure proper geometry. In my opinion it is better to rely on skin segments shape that are very precise - I would recommend to form the skin segments and join them together without frames and then put the complete framework into the skin (like a hand into a glove :), if necessary correcting the framework.
You should also be very careful with profiling the leading edges of wings - I had some problems with fitting the engines onto the wings (due to wrong shape of edges).

Frettchen - alez oczywiscie, komentarze w ojczystym jezyku sa zdecydowanie bardziej zrozumiale
Pozdrawiam!

Greetings,
Pawel