Mossie Mousepad

BarracudaCast, 1/48 scale

Reviewed by Brad Fallen

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This is an item I never expected to see in the Barracuda Studios catalogue.  As most of you will be familiar with what a mousepad looks like, I’ll pass to Roy Sutherland’s website caption for a detailed description:

This high quality mousepad features a 1/8" thick, heavy duty rubber base with a tightly woven polyester fabric surface. It delivers high speed mousing performance for those marathon Barracuda Studios ordering sessions. The image features a Mosquito PR XVI of 544 Squadron RAF in July of 1944, wearing full D-Day Invasion striping.

The image is in fact a composite photo of one of Roy’s models, a kitbashed  Tamiya/Airfix 1/48 PR Mk.XVI that featured in his excellent book “Modelling the De Havilland Mosquito” (Osprey 2005).  It’s a striking photo of a beautiful model and aeroplane.

I haven’t used the mousepad while ordering any Barracuda products (sorry Roy) but I can say that it does its job very well.  I took mine into work last week to replace a stock mousepad that was sliding around all over the place and annoying me quite a bit.  The Barracuda pad has a lovely ‘heavy’ feel to it and doesn’t budge when you’re moving the mouse – lovely.

So far nobody’s commented on the photo, but I know it’s only a matter of time.  Highly recommended.

Thanks to Barracuda Studios for the review sample.

Thanks to Barracuda Studios for the images and information

Barracuda Studio products are available online from their website

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This Page Created on 9 February, 2016
Last updated 9 February, 2016

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