Pete's Beaufighter
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Nice choice Pete. I've always thought the Bea' was a good looking aircraft.
Now that is fighting talk..............
Ooh exciting when you find something you've spent time looking for and it Infront of you !Nice progress pete , but when were you on my bench ??!!View attachment 466045
Perfect bench layout Tony .
Excuse me Pete .
Lovely stuff.....
.... One of these is definitely on my wish list.
.... One of these is definitely on my wish list.
scottie3158
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Pete,
Coming on nicely mate.
Coming on nicely mate.
Coming along very nicely indeed Pete.
Looking good Pete. Whispering death is building up very nicely. I must be in a minority though, I find it a bit of a strange looking bird…….I think it’s the tail!
Ooops, sucks to be old!!!..........Uhhh, Sorry to hear this Pete, but I guess it can happen when you go down in the scale of a model kit. I hope you can fix it without too much trouble. Progress is looking really fine and the overall fit seams pretty good too Sir!!! Drive on!!!.......
Prost
Allen
Prost
Allen
Jim R
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Looking very good. Nice to have a good fit of the fuselage halves but wing root issues I find a pain.
Bet the air was blue when you chopped off the prop blade. Hope it's an easy fix.
Bet the air was blue when you chopped off the prop blade. Hope it's an easy fix.
Haven't done much recently - combination of getting accustomed to new glasses and the return of the shakes.
Airfix haven't got a spare prop, so I'll just have to repair the one I cut off by mistake. Shouldn't be too difficult, as long as I can get the angles right.
Got it looking like an aircraft now though, the wing roots just needed a little cleanup and a smear of filler on the leading edge.
Masked the main cockpit with Bare Metal Foil, which conforms to curves more easily than Tamiya tape. It's a fairly simply canopy though so I probably could have used tape. The rear gunner/navigator's canopy is a spare so I won't bother masking it.
Next step is to assemble the nacelles:
A bit of a fiddly task as the outer cowl is in three pieces with no real locating pins, so they have to be glued together and to the collector ring around the engine. One down, one to go!
Pete
Airfix haven't got a spare prop, so I'll just have to repair the one I cut off by mistake. Shouldn't be too difficult, as long as I can get the angles right.
Got it looking like an aircraft now though, the wing roots just needed a little cleanup and a smear of filler on the leading edge.
Masked the main cockpit with Bare Metal Foil, which conforms to curves more easily than Tamiya tape. It's a fairly simply canopy though so I probably could have used tape. The rear gunner/navigator's canopy is a spare so I won't bother masking it.
Next step is to assemble the nacelles:
A bit of a fiddly task as the outer cowl is in three pieces with no real locating pins, so they have to be glued together and to the collector ring around the engine. One down, one to go!
Pete
Regarding the prop, could you pin the two parts together then fill the join?
Assuming you have both parts.
Assuming you have both parts.
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I've heard about foil being used but never tried it. Does it work very well?
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