Mosquito skin substitutions

[Greebo]

Lyric has asked me if I could skin an all black Mosquito Mk II for him. I thought I'd better ask Pyro what it was an acceptable substitution on the Mk VI shape. Basically you can skin the Mk II and the Tse Tse Mossie, as well as the various Aussie and Canadian built fighter bomber marks that are equivalent to the Mk VI. However the later night fighters which had radome noses instead of the 303s are not acceptable.

[lyric1]

Lyric has asked me if I could skin an all black Mosquito Mk II for him. I thought I'd better ask Pyro what it was an acceptable substitution on the Mk VI shape. Basically you can skin the Mk II and the Tse Tse Mossie, as well as the various Aussie and Canadian built fighter bomber marks that are equivalent to the Mk VI. However the later night fighters which had radome noses instead of the 303s are not acceptable.

Well not for me as it is not an Australian mossie as any RAAF skins come available I always use them no matter what. I know a number of people like black aircraft hence why I have so many prospects of them & a few of them are in the game that I gave to skinners.

[oakranger]

Do all skins have to be from the Mk VI?  These all are FB Mk VI

107 Sqn, RAF


143 Sqn, Banff Strike Wing, RAF, NE-A


143 Sqn, Banff Strike Wing, RAF, NE-L


1st Bomber Squadron, RAAF


1672 CU, RAF, India, 1944


45 Sqn, RAF, India, January 1945.

[Kazaa]

Greebo,

When the Tempest is redone, can you please use a paint scheme with invasion stripes, cheers.

[Greebo]

Oakranger, skins can either be a Mk VI or one of the other variants I mentioned in the first post.

Kazaa, there is no guarantee I will be skinning the Tempest. Waffle, Superfly or one of the other skinner team guys may skin it. However if I do, I'd like to avoid the lower half D Day stripes I used on the Typhoon so I can make it visually different. So it would either be no stripes or full stripes. It would be handy to be able to spot Tempests more easily in the MA, so if HTC had no objection I could do a full stripe scheme no problem.

[Kazaa]

Full stripes are always the best kind. That sounds awesome!

The only other scheme that would stand out more than full stripes would be bare metal. It would also be even more so awesome as the default skin. That's if Tempest came in bare metal.

[jay]

is there a white skin like the one we have now??

[Krusty]

is there a white skin like the one we have now??

Y'know, I was never sure if it was supposed to be white or silver dope paint.

[jay]

love that skin but imaging that in silver is cool lol

[Greebo]

It is silver, the first Mossies deployed in the Far East tended to disintegrate because the heat and humidity affected their construction. So they painted them silver to reflect the sun. The old AH Mosquito did not have the benefit of material files, so you couldn't make it look shiny. The new one should look a lot better with this scheme.

[AWwrgwy]

Lyric has asked me if I could skin an all black Mosquito Mk II for him.

As soon as they remove the exhaust dampers someone wants a night fighter scheme.

 


wrongway

[Greebo]

Perhaps I should ask Pyro to put them back on again.......

[lyric1]

As soon as they remove the exhaust dampers someone wants a night fighter scheme.

 


wrongway

No not correct read the entire thread.

Well not for me as it is not an Australian mossie as any RAAF skins come available I always use them no matter what. I know a number of people like black aircraft hence why I have so many prospects of them & a few of them are in the game that I gave to skinners.

[kingcobradude]

I would like to see this skin

[Spikes]

Looks like it was being repainted for restoration or something...and that was the bomber variant.