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by Mark Beckwith
Posted on October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

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Here’s the finished PR Mosquito. The subject aircraft, MM312 was only a month or so old at the moment I've modelled it, which was early hours of the morning of 7th June, 1944. It had just completed back to back sorties over France, the second of which was a night-time sortie.

Getting very close to the finish line now...

Exhaust staining completed. These stains were airbrushed, the dark colour first and then the grey. I used the 544 Squadron aircraft in the second pic as the reference.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the RAAF and we had a perfect day for a fly by here in Canberra. Here’s some real aircraft instead of models...

Moving inextricably towards the finish. Gloss coating, decals on, sealing gloss coat on and setting. As pictured the wings aren’t permanently attached, I’ll be doing most of the weathering first, as well as the undercarriage before finally gluing them on.

Some catch-up... the base painting is complete. The progress was careful; I painted and masked the D-Day stripes first, then built up the PRU blue base coat slowly to ensure a solid coverage. Last, I subtly mottled the base blue with a thin 6:1 mix of the base PRU blue with mid-grey. It’s all curing now, tomorrow I’ll apply the gloss coat in prep for decals.

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