Dear Mr Frontline, I sometimes scratch build for parts of models, but not at this level. Or even close! This is another example of painstaking work that I admire rather a lot. Thanks for putting up this project. Regards, Z

great detail work .but it's a TWIN--there are TWO of these!!! Thanks for showing this.

Great build up of the engine. Looks complicated when complete, but the step by step process has given me a host of ideas for what I am working on. Thank you.

Another amazing vid and build love it !! 👍💞💪🍺🙏

Found this by accident and frankly, I'm hooked. As a modeller, I find this fascinating to watch. Your attention to detail is next level.

Mate that pipework looks superb...who gives if it's accurate...the whole point is the effect of realism...a masterclass in scratching...respect :)

That is some beautiful work sir, thanks 🙏

This is the way... 😏 Most detailed build I have ever watched... 😬 Kudos 😎

Dear FMH, outstanding workmanship! Always a pleasure to watch your tutorials. Best Wishes Johnny

Ooh-err nurse! You handled those pipes brilliantly.

Brilliant work! Manual dexterity at its finest!

Lovely stuff

Amazing pipework!! All it needs now is some petrol and a spark!

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 26 June, 2024). An ambitious build! Thanks also for the look at an actual Wooden Wonder in operation. I appreciate you for (round 8:17) giving us precise measurements of the scratch-built replacement (I am a word nerd; I am NOT a maths whiz!), so I require exact explanations. At round 18:30, you commence to rework the cockpit instrument panel. Rather than applying some clear liquid to each instrument bezel (if that is the correct term), I wonder if one could apply to a small piece of transparent polystyrene sheet a decal on backwards; that is, the face of the decal upon the clear plastic, that one would set behind the kit’s instrument panel? One might have to affix it with a decal adhesive (whatever that might be) so seal it into place. Behind all this might be a third layer, possibly a kit part with the instrument dials’ housings. (I saw much as this in the Airfix 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk. IXc Fighter that another British chap had recently assembled here on KZfaq.) I would want to illuminate the dials, however, to highlight that cockpit. I therefore propose that one insert in between a small piece of electro-luminescent plastic (well, I infer it to be plastic) exactly matching in length and width the preceding kit part (the instrument panel); this electro-luminescent plastic piece upon receiving a low-wattage (usually 9 volts, from those I recall having seen) electrical current glows brightly (I do not think this is “incandescence”, “phosphorescence”, “fluorescence, or “luminescence”, as I understand them; much as I find science of keen fascination for me, I am no scientist!) in a modest assortment of hues; I would choose white, of course, though I understand that these can emit process blue, red, yellow, and possibly green. In your estimation, would this work? The next issue would be sorting all the electrical and electronic details. Here is where your vastly greater technical acumen, expertise, and experience in such technological signs and wonders come to the fore. Such enigmatic, esoteric sorcery is quite beyond my capacity! Watching in gob smacked awe for all the myriad details (this continues through Parts one and two) about what I never had even the slightest conceptualisation-and you seem to be winging it on experience of longstanding. (Now beginning Part 5.) I must admit I simply stared in silent (well, mostly) amazement at all your many labours, physical and mental. Your two-stage explication of your detailing the huge Rolls Royce Merlin V-12, 27-litre (1,650 in³) capacity, 1,300 kW (1,800 hp) piston æro engine, the engine compartment itself, the landing gear bays, the cockpit interior, and all the rest must entail several hundred distinct corrections or accurisations, many of which directly or indirectly connect or interact with other modifications-and it would not surprise me one bit if the actual count would be well beyond that rough guess. I must admit to doubting my capacity to remember them all, let alone to implement them in my turn! Your skills make me wish that I had the means to hire you (if you felt so inclined) at £20 hourly to build, accurise, detail, etc., model kits, record them in these KZfaq videos; I would ask, however, for more explicitly delineated measurements, please; not only am I abysmal at maths, my vision is poor, and my capacity for visual assessment is compromised (one eye is higher than the other, and my face is visibly misshapen). I try to have a sense of humour about my circumstances, so if you are hanging a painting, do not as me if it is straight! Also, my shoulders and the upper half or so of my spine, including my neck, are noticeably mal-aligned, all as a consequence of complications during a breech birth, which in the aggregate have rendered me recognisably asymmetrical and very thin; I note all this because I wish to give you a sense of myself. I am the oldest yet the smallest by far in a family of veritable giants, an irony I long have found rather amusing. As a youth, if the boys sought to pick on me for being small and misshapen, they quickly realised that they had not anticipated my quick-witted rebuttals! At 13:40 of Part 5, you express concern that you might have “got carried away”. If it is on the actual aircraft, please put it onto the miniature! Years past, FineScale Modeler (magazine) featured a fellow who in building--super-detailing!--Tamiya’s 1:350th-scale model of a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer added an estimated TEN THOUSAND parts, much of them metal, e.g., fine wire for the railings! Watching you work in your videos, I realise that I would like to find an aftermarket resin detail set of this engine (or something similar) in this scale, to install it into the engine compartment of a Rolls Royce sedan or touring car. Of course, I would display it with the hood raised, a figurine of a mechanic looking after it, as a miniature of a chauffeur looked on whilst he/she awaits his/her employer (maybe me, though had I the means, I would have an extensively customised, lengthened, upgraded 1977 Lincoln Towncar four-door sedan, with a black exterior and an ultramarine velvet interior for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and another, white with a bright red velvet interior, for the rest of the week).

Amazing work! looking forward to seeing the painting

.....мотор красивенько получился-класссс! (((( буду следить за стройкой ))))..

great to have the vids back

Stunning work mate

'Pick ' Pickard was a very tall heavy set chap who said he would 'strap on the Mosquito '.

Have you seen the hose fittings and connectors from Anyz, Rob? Stunning work by the way.

Did you go the whole hog and put the Tsetse resin Mosquito nose on as well 🤔

I just don't know how you do it !

Stupid question, why don’t you paint the parts before assembly?

Staggering......