Getting it right

When I was 11, back in the golden age when your mom was overseas and sent a massive box of model kits for you and your brothers to divide and build armies with, I picked out the Airfix Mosquito as mine to build. Of course, I remember I got the nose upside down on the fuselage, the engine exhausts pointing the wrong way, the landing gear on backward and breaking every extreneous bit off before finishing the build. Then I spilled paint all over the wrong places and eventually melted all the wingtips and tail off with gallons of sticky Revell plastic cement from a tube.

In 2002, I decided to try and get it right. Thanks to Victoria Hobby Centre for the kit, and Daryl for telling me that the camo wasn't supposed to be feathered, but hard edged. Oh well, I tried.