PK. In the one photo I see the name of one of the pilots being Schonfeld. He was a photographer by trade and the one that suggested putting a gun camera in the nose of the Beaufighter. He was also the pilot that took the famous photo of Steve Stevens' dive attack.

Thanks Louis. Hope to get more bench time this weekend. I often wonder, especially seeing the photos that PK posted, how accurate those rockets were and how many innocent civilians died in those attacks on a village containing embedded enemy troops. Steve Stevens noted in an interview ,that I saw on Youtube, that some pilots were very skilled at hitting their targets which to me suggests that some might not have been! However, such is the nature of war... the innocent casualties of war don't always factor into the military equation, as long as the military objectives were reached. The SAAF operated on intelligence gathered in the field by Tito's partisan forces. Without their heroic actions most of the SAAF missions over Yugoslavia would not have been successful.

Seriously, Morne, you are one of the few modelers who, when I see your build thread, I just itch to get at the bench and make something. Thanks.

Just a short update on the Beaufighter undercarriage. I have added pieces of Evergreen plasticard and fashioned hydraulic plumbing from copper wire and joined it in a T-shape with pieces of removed insulation from insulated copper wire. The copper wire will be glued in place and fastened with Tamiya tape or foil strips.

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Thanks David. I will include more detailed shots once I finished installing the plumbing.