barisaxman
Recruit
- 5
- Nov 18, 2019
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I don't think I've ever seen one either but it sure would look good though.Doubtful you will find a Mossie with desert camo. Would be news to me but I sure don't know everything.
Beautiful model. That's excellent work. As a side note, I've always associated the radar receiving antennas on the wingtips with the Mk.IV radar, not the Mk.X that would have been used in 1944. Am I wrong about that, or were those antennas used for something else?The Mosquito NFXII was also used by 46 Sqn, replacing their Beaufighters, from July/August 1944 until December 1944.
Based at Idku, Egypt, the Squadron also had detachments in Libya and Palestine, and on Cyprus, returning to the UK at the end of December 1944.
I'd need to check, but I believe, from memory, the aircraft were 'inherited' from 256 Sqn.
The colour scheme was the same as that shown in the pics in the previous posts, being the 'standard' night intruder scheme, with Medium Sea Grey and Dark Green on upper surfaces, with the undersides over-painted in 'Night' (black).
The pic below shows the model I built for 46 Squadron Association.
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Interesting. I'll have to look more into how that radar worked.Thanks very much.
The wing antennae are the azimuth aerials for the A.I. Mk.X., with the scanning dish in the 'thimble' nose.
The A.I. Mk.IV used the twin di-pole azimuth antenna on the leading edge of both wings, as shown on one of the other models I did for 46 Sqn, this Beaufighter, in 1/32nd scale, also based at Idku, before the squadron converted to the Mosquito.
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