You know, I hadn't noticed that.
It is an Academy mould.  Obviously powered by the V14 Packard Merlinin.
PSR began today.

The extra exhaust stubs came from the ones they didn't use on early Mossies of course........................... 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 20, 2024, 05:26:49 AMThe extra exhaust stubs came from the ones they didn't use on early Mossies of course........................... 

Of course, that makes perfect sense!   

The early Mosquitos with the V10 Rolls Royce Merl?
 

Quote from: zenrat on July 21, 2024, 05:17:43 AMThe early Mosquitos with the V10 Rolls Royce Merl?
 

Yes, those are the ones.

But the subcontractors who made the exhausts mis-read the order and STILL made them 12 stub ones, so RR had to saw off the extra stubs leaving them handy for the V14s later on.

PSR.
Lots of filler on the wings where Mustang meets Intruder.  Sanded a bit, assessed and then added more filler.

More sanding, more primer, more filler, more sanding...

TBH i've been focussing more on the Vampire which is why i still haven't got these wings finished.  They are not even attached to the fuselage yet.
The reason they are proving such a chore is the merges between the different cross sections of the different wings.  This sort of thing is much easier if you put in a wing fence to hide the change.
However, I think i'm close.  I may be able to scribe in some ailerons and flaps tomorrow.

  

No scribing.  More primer.

Flaps and Ailerons are scribed.
Some minor filler work required to repair damage caused by dymo tape (used as scribing guide) stickyness ripping a lump of filler out of the wing surface.
 
Then I think I can finally attach the wings to the fuse.

I fecking hate tape which is meant to be low tac and ain't.
I had that with the white Tamiya vinyl low tac tape..ripped paint off like I'd glued it on 

Someone told me once that if you have tape that is too sticky to pull off a length and touch the sticky side to areas of your face. The skin oils will tone down the stickiness. It does work. Not sure what the skin oils will do to some of todays paints.

The forehead in particular.

The annoying thing is that when used as intended Dymo tape often has problems sticking to the thing you are labelling.

Murphy strikes again, under his alternate identity of Irony...