The Mosquito is my favourite aircraft from WWII - here's the info from the kit with some pics (some are mine - some are borrowed from the interweb)
The versatile Mosquito stood with the Spitfire fighter and Lancaster bomber and earned the respect of British pilots during WWII. In 1939 the De Havilland company envisioned the plane to be an unarmed high speed bomber, and had experience with the Comet, which was a wooden racing plane. Except for the engine and landing gear, the Mosquito was comprised of wood, offering strategic advantages. The wooden construction would save on important metals such as aluminium, it could also be built in converted furniture factories.
The air ministry was reluctant to adopt the wooden aircraft, but placed orders for 50 planes in March 1940 for reconnaissance use. In November 1940, the Mosquito reached speeds of 630km/h (391mph) during test flights, demonstrating its potential and quickly prompting additional orders of 150 planes. The Mosquito PR Mk. I reconnaissance plane was first deployed in July 1941; the B Mk. IV bomber started deployment in the Spring of 1942.
On May 31 1942, the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo was bombed. German officials delivering a daytime speech in Berlin were attacked on January 30 1943. These events demonstrated the Mosquito’s ability to carry heavy loads and delivery low altitude surprise attacks with accuracy. The camera equipped PR Mk. IV reconnaissance plane discovered the German battleship Tirpitz in the Arctic Circle and scouted V2 rocket facilities. The Mosquitoes performed their duties with minimal losses, displaying their remarkable abilities.
Onto the kit itself and this one has its origins in a 1999 new tool, but re-boxed with new parts in 2000.
Here are the sprue frames - main fuselage & wings
Two the same for undercarriage & engines
Clear parts, cockpit bits & nose section
The instruction sheet & decals
We'll cover the instructions in more detail as the build progresses
And this is the colour scheme I intend to build up
The intention is for this aircraft to form the basis for a diorama that I've had in mind since last year's bomber sig, but for this build I'll just focus on the Mosquito. This means that I'll be building this wheels up, and disappointingly there's no crew included so I'll be shoe-horning a couple of lads from this set into the cockpit
I found a build on the web where someone had done this and it did require a bit of surgery in the cockpit to make everything fit but we'll give it a go anyway.
Hopefully I'll be able to make a start this week.
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At this point I've also scribed back in one of the more prominent panel lines but have lost a little of the surface detail unfortunately. I've also added the exhausts and flame dampener thingies - I did paint up the exhausts before fitting but you really can't see them.
Good save mate 
