A British Beaver
Airfix produced some of their best kits in the early-to-mid 70s, which is the period in which they tooled their 1/72 DHC Beaver. Moulded in white plastic it went together very well, although I sanded off the raised rivets and panel lines, the latter being re-scribed.
The dayglo orange areas were masked and airbrushed with Gunze Mr Color paint. Reference photos showed a lot of aerials and antennae which were replicated with stretched sprue and bits of styrene.
Wow, 1/72 scale, looks great Mike.
Spectacular super clean build.
Way cool! Love the camou and day glow combination. Nice bit of modelling.
Nicely done! Looks great enough to be a retool.
This is awesome, Mike. All the finish work you did makes it look like a brand new kit, and the contrast between the camo and hi vis stripes is great.
Excellent build, and love the dayglo work. Makes it really stand out.
An excellent and unexpected model. Love the paint work, very sharp contrast between the green and the brown. Who would tell this is a 70s kit?
What a beauty! You did most respectable work on this Airfix kit; a excellent outcome!
A cracker, particularly like the steps, should do that to my next one.
There are some faults with the model but it’s very old so amazing for its age.
One thing I would ask please is to remove the RAF tag from the post. Beaver AL1 was operated first by the RASC then RCT pilots before the corps came into being in 57. The only real involvement the RAF had was desperately trying to prevent the Army from having the Beaver. There were 2 trialled, one with the Wasp and the other with the Leonidese. The Wasp won. Spent a few happy hours working on and flying in the Beaver. Nice job chap. I am going to have to do a complete re scribe and rivet job on the next one...must be mad.😆❤️
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