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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #25 on: November 18, 2020, 08:08:10 AM »
Looking good !

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2020, 06:57:00 AM »
Here comes the paint

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2020, 10:42:32 AM »
Nice work on the entire modification in transforming the Mosquito from piston engine to jet engine.  It certainly looks like an early jet engine bomber development now that you have it finished in a nice coat of paint. 
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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #28 on: November 25, 2020, 04:25:55 PM »
It really is a double take model... a Mosquito.. but wait, where are the props

Works for me :smiley:

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2020, 09:02:55 PM »
Now I got the decals put on. Next in line comes the landing gear.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #30 on: November 26, 2020, 09:28:17 AM »
Very nice  :smiley:
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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #31 on: November 26, 2020, 03:34:02 PM »
Is a cool transformation.  Very '46    8)
Notice is reversed in that straight leading edge changed to straight trailing edge and leading edge has about same sweep angle as Mosquito trailing edge.  Looks great but do not understand what was done to make that happen.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #32 on: November 27, 2020, 06:09:42 PM »

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Is a cool transformation.  Very '46    8)
Notice is reversed in that straight leading edge changed to straight trailing edge and leading edge has about same sweep angle as Mosquito trailing edge.  Looks great but do not understand what was done to make that happen.

The wing was changed by removing the coolers in the wing leading edge and fill the area with plastic card and shape a new leading edge. The wing root was extended with more plastic card so it could be cut in a new angle.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #33 on: November 28, 2020, 04:31:59 AM »
This is a great conversion - familiar at first sight, then it looks...different. Believable, too.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2020, 09:58:30 AM »
Now that looks seriously cool, great looking model. :-* :-* :-*

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #35 on: November 29, 2020, 01:15:46 AM »
This is a great conversion - familiar at first sight, then it looks...different. Believable, too.
Here is the sketch, that the model is based on.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #36 on: December 09, 2020, 08:35:29 PM »
Landing gear and landing gear covers installed and then a layer of satin cote. At last FINISHED.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #37 on: December 09, 2020, 08:36:48 PM »
Landing gear and landing gear covers installed and then a layer of satin cote. At last FINISHED.

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #38 on: December 10, 2020, 01:56:47 AM »
 :smiley:
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Offline robunos

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #39 on: December 10, 2020, 02:00:20 AM »
Me likey, LOTS !   :smiley:


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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #40 on: December 10, 2020, 06:27:11 AM »
Even better with landing gear,  niiiiice  :smiley:

Treatment of engine-landing gear combo is extra creative.  Tail plane dihedral helps clear jet exhaust.  :smiley:
« Last Edit: December 10, 2020, 03:41:10 PM by finsrin »

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #41 on: December 10, 2020, 07:02:07 AM »
Nice result and the landing gear arrangement is... unusual. I think that's the first design I've seen where the gear retracts in front of the engine. One perk of a centrifugal engine that hadn't occurred to me.
« Last Edit: December 10, 2020, 07:03:45 AM by Frank3k »

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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #42 on: December 10, 2020, 02:47:43 PM »
Nice piece of work, MAT! :smiley:
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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #43 on: December 11, 2020, 12:09:56 AM »
Just a tiny quibble . . .  but weren't red markings  banned in the Pacific and CBI theatres, to avoid confusion, hence the blue and white only roundels and fin flashes ? I'm thinking especially about the red warning markings on the intakes.


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Re: A De Havilland jet Bomber
« Reply #44 on: December 12, 2020, 07:38:21 PM »
Well that turned out great, like the undercarriage solution !

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