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Here
is my conversion of the Revell B.IV to an FB.VI, using Paragon's resin
conversion set.
The aircraft depicted is HX922, F-EG, as flown by Gp. Cpt. P.C. Pickard
on the famous Amiens raid of 18th February 1944, during which he lost
his life.
The conversion was done for a friend, who is a Mosquito enthusiast,
and took about 100 hours, all told, about a whole tube of filler and
a lot of elbow grease to get it all to fit. Some details were scratchbuilt,
mainly the cross-bracing on the undercarriage legs (which are totally
absent from the kit), and the brake lines. Finding code letters in a
suitable size was probably the hardest thing and in the end the only
ones I could find weren't quite the right colour and I didn't feel talented
enough to paint them on!
All in all, it was a long job, and I wouldn't like to do it again. The
figures were picked up at local show (I can't remember the manufacturer),
one of which I modified to represent Gp. Cpt. Pickard, complete with
pipe in mouth.
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