JF DH-98 Mosquito released

I was playing around with aluminum dope last week but this is what was achieved, I had issue with upload screens but generally shows this working.
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OK. I have finally finished adapting the first JF paintkit to PSP compatibility. First four paints, all available at Flightsim.com. Yes I know RR299 was a T3 but I felt I should do it anyway.




 
Very nice, Peter! I've been really hoping someone, such as yourself, would make a repaint of KA114 (the only currently flying fighter-variant Mossie), so thank you very, very much!

BTW, the Flying Heritage Collection's trainer-variant Mosquito TV959, which has been under restoration at Avspecs in New Zealand (same company that rebuilt KA114), is scheduled to be completed/flying in just a couple months. After flight tests are completed, it will be shipped to Seattle this winter (northern winter) where it will be flying with the rest of the FHC collection next year. Avspecs has as many as 3-4 more Mosquitoes in the queue - the next one, which is slated for completion by Easter 2018, is also owned by a US-based operator (Rod Lewis/Lewis Air Legends), but then there are at least two more that are destined for the UK following completion.
 
Thanks for the comments John. I could not let the brilliant work being carried out by Avspecs go without painting their first completion. I had to paint RR299 as a tribute, because I worked at the Leavesden site (then owned by Rolls-Royce) and that was where RR299 was built. Will be great to see a Mosquito flying in the UK again, even if it will not be for a good few years yet!
cheers, Peter W:ernaehrung004:
 
YoYo said:
.... but it was Wooden Wonder . :wavey:
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:biggrin-new: Yeah Yeah :untroubled: Chuckle ... they painted it with an aluminum/silver dope paint , fresh out out the paint shop they did look almost metallic , the best examples would be museum Vampires :encouragement:

I have to go back to the paint shop on this one ... I lost the work due to a PC Funky Chicken .... BUGGER ME!
 
As was standard in such an application, once the wooden fuselage/wing were completed, they were covered in fabric and brushed with multiple coats of standard medium-type red dope. After that was completed, then the airframe was painted in silver dope, which was applied to serve as UV protection from the sun. After that, then the camouflage was applied. This whole process is of course done in the Mosquito restorations today as well (of course leading to some confusion as well, for those that don't know about that process, to see these Mosquitoes 'painted' silver for so long during restoration, only to be painted in camouflage after the restoration is completed).







 
Here is a two-month old photo of the Flying Heritage Collection's trainer-variant Mosquito T Mk.III TV959, which will be the next flyer, slated for completion/test flights as early as August/September (according to Avspecs and FHC). No word yet on what the exact details of the paint scheme will be (FHC tend to paint their aircraft in an original scheme worn by that specific airframe, if one that is "interesting enough" can be found, otherwise they'll source a more interesting/historic paint scheme from a like-type). RR299, the last Mosquito to fly in the UK (up until the Barton crash), was also the same trainer variant as this one. Photo by Gavin Conroy:



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An area saw with the Airspeed Oxford build at Wigram using the very same paint technique on the wooden structures, Great photos John.
 
Next paint, FBVI HX914 based at Hunsdon and flown by No 464 Squadron,Royal Australian Air Force in December 1943. Available at Flightsim.com
 
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