Second Beaufighter
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The first Bristol Beaufighter model I built was in the early 1970's when I was a teenager. It was 1:32 scale and I remembered that it didn't fit together very well. I recall painting the model entirely in black and even fabricated the exhaust flame suppressors using drinking straws. It looked pretty horrible. Forty years later, I decided to take a crack at modeling again and bought the Tamiya 1:48 scale Beaufighter kit. At first I wanted to paint it in the green/gray camouflage scheme, but that didn't work out. So what I have here is the black paint scheme. I built a lot of Tamiya armor models back in the day and my go-to manufacturer for aircraft models was Hasegawa. But Tamiya did a nice job on this kit and It turned out pretty well for me.
See? It is like riding a bicycle! 🙂
Nice result.
Thanks! I think the new models are much better than what was available back then.
Nice model. I'll tackle it one day! Is it my imagination or was there once an Airfix 1/24 Beau for a brief period?
There might have been a 1/24 Beaufighter, but I got out of the hobby completely years ago so I wouldn’t know. The first one I built was a 1/32 Revell.
This is a great Beau, Greg!
Welcome back to modeling and welcome aboard the fantastic iModeler!
Thanks. I stumbled upon this site and it looks like a winner.
Looks great! and welcome, this is very user friendly.
Thank you!
Nicely done! The Beau looks sexy in black!
Thanks, it does look rather sexy in black - and sinister!