discussion Steve's Revell 1/48 Mosquito B Mk.IV

[HAWKERHUNTER]

So I have been having a bit of a nightmare with this one chaps. Things were going reasonable well and I got the office internals all assembled. I used the kit provided seat belt decals.



Then the fun started I could not get the fuzz sides to join. A check online shows this is a common problem experienced by many with this kit.


So the hacking has begun which has resulted in many of the fitted delicate parts dropping off. Work is continuing but I am not a happy bunny.

 

[Geoffers]

Crikey that’s really disappointing, I hope you manage to sort it Steve

Geoff.

 

[flyjoe180]

Good old Revell. Hope you can get the fit sorted without too much damage Steve, and that the rest of the build progresses without too much hassle

 

[colin m]

I bought this model shortly after returning to the hobby. When I looked into the box, I closed it up and put it away for a very long time. It did get built in the end, some years later.

 

[Neil]

Ouch, that is frustrating when you’ve got the office all sorted and then the fuselage looks like it was made for a different piece of kit.

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Ouch, that is frustrating when you’ve got the office all sorted and then the fuselage looks like it was made for a different piece of kit.

Yes it is Neil. Broke a few pieces off whilst sanding down. Very annoying.

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

So I have finished sanding and managed to get a decent join at the front end of the fuzz. The join behind the seats is a different story. I cant get the parts to come together cleanly. I toyed with the idea of removing some plastic from the area that I have circled in order to get the front of the seam to join but if I do that it will affect the join of the remaining rear part of the fuzz.

So with that in mind I am cutting my losses and will resort to filler. At the moment I am gluing the fuzz together in two stages. I have glued and clamped the forward section in front of the seats first. Tomorrow I will join the rear section behind the seats, reinforce the seam internally and then fill , sand and rescribe where needed.

Next up some work on the wings. Flaps and ailerons were made up and the wing halves joined. No issues there.



Then I put the Merlins together. Each engine is made up of 7 separate parts. Again no major issues just some minor trimming to get a good fit.


Thats it for now. Thanks for checking in.

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

I have to say that this has not been a pleasant build experience. It started off well and then went downhill when it came to join the fuzz halves together. The fuzz comes in four pieces. There are two forward sections that come together to enclose the cockpit area and then you assemble the rear two sections and then bring the two completed sections together. Just a recap. The below picture shows the completed cockpit area and I have circled all the areas that I had to trim, on both sides, and sand to get the two halves to come together.

Below are the instructions that show the two halves coming together

So I now have this.

Just ended up with a small gap behind the cockpit area. I have reinforced the seam on the inside with some epoxy bandage and will be moving on now to tidying up the fuzz seams. One advantage of doing a Mossie being a wooden construction is the absence of panel lines. That will make cleaning up so much easier.

I have also assembled the rear tail wheel assembly which needed to be done before joining the rear fuzz halves together, and I have put some protection around the rear pitot static tube. There is more work to do on the tail wheel, seam removal etc.


The instructions now tell you to fit the wings but this is a bad idea. There is a ton of stuff to fit to the wings, engine mountings, engines, cowlings, undercarriage etc and the information on internet is that I should expect more fit issues particularly around engine cowlings/covers. So I am going to complete all the wing fittings and assemble the wings at the end. I could not however resist a dry fit just to keep my enthusiasm up. Hopefully the next part of the build will be more trouble free.

Thanks for checking in.

 

[Steven000]

Sad to read about all the fitting issues Steve, great to see you keep on going nonetheless you'll figure it out - goodluck

 

[Neil]

I admire your perseverance. My Revell Huey still sits in the bin under my bench as a reminder.

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

I admire your perseverance. My Revell Huey still sits in the bin under my bench as a reminder.

Its not perseverance Neil I am just tight. I have lived in Yorkshire for so long that like any true Yorkshireman I refuse to bin something that I paid good money for.

 

[flyjoe180]

That looks good Steve, I'm sure you will be able to deal with those seams etc. After the repairs and clean ups, you will have a great looking Mosquito

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

That looks good Steve, I'm sure you will be able to deal with those seams etc. After the repairs and clean ups, you will have a great looking Mosquito

Cheers Joe.

 

[HAWKERHUNTER]

On a side not I didn't realise until now that the Mosquito had a Merlin V12 which had a 6 into 5 exhaust system. I have always assumed the Merlin had 6 pipes on each side. I thought the model was inaccurate but it is correct as the picture shows.

As the model comes with some half decent Merlins I have decided to open up the cowlings to expose them. I will leave the inner cowling complete on each wing but the outer cowling I have decided to remove. So out with the scriber tool and some careful cutting was done.. Below picture is of the area I am cutting away.

And this is what it left me with.

Next up I have started to assemble the wing cowlings and all the internal frame work for the engine support. This is done in stages with one side of the cowling being glued into position on the wing and then building up in stages all the internal components.

Note that the exhaust pipes on the closed cowling side need to be attached to the cowling prior to fitting the engine as if you glued them to the engine first you cannot insert the engine because of the curve on the exhaust manifold outlet/pipes.


This will now get sprayed up with the interior green before I can attach the undercarriage legs etc. I am glad I did not attach the wings to the fuzz until after the engine compartments and undercarriage were installed and built up as this has been very fiddly work so far.