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1:32 De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI

Drawn up as a high speed, unarmed bomber, the twin engine De Havilland Mosquito fulfilled that role and so many more for the RAF and other Allied air forces during WWII, taking advantage of performance so astonishing it earned the aircraft its nickname: Wooden Wonder. (That, and the fact it was made largely of wood, in contrast to most of its contemporaries.) The FB Mk.VI fighter-bomber variant, which first appeared in the skies in Spring 1943, packed a punch with four 7.7mm nose-mounted machine guns and four powerful 20mm auto-cannons, plus the ability to carry four 500lb bombs. With around 2,700 produced it was the most prolifically manufactured Mosquito variant, and this high performance, multi-role aircraft was relied on to attack sensitive enemy targets such as SS facilities, V1 flying bomb sites, and munitions factories, taking advantage of its precision low-altitude bombing skills.

Construction Type: Assembly kit

Decals: Included

Scale: 1/32

Fuselage length: 394.5mm, wingspan: 515.5mm.

The kit includes parts to recreate propellers with the early variant slimline blades or wider paddle-type blades.

Choose an open or closed bomb bay. 20mm autocannons and two 500lb bomb parts are found inside.

Choose between standard exhausts or those fitted with flame damper covers, plus standard or tropical filter engine cowling undersides.

Tailwheel mudguard and strut are depicted. Left and right sides of the horizontal stabilizer are part of the same piece, as on the actual aircraft.

The cockpit interior is realistically depicted, right down to details such as the pilot's seat cushion.

The modeler is presented with a number of options, such as open or closed bomb hatch, and up or down flaps and elevators.

The graceful, elegant lines of the Mosquito FB Mk.VI is captured with stunning accuracy.

Rivets are expertly depicted on parts such as engine cowlings and ailerons.