Calling this one finished.
Kit decals and decals from the dungeon to do a 252 Squadron Beaufighter IC in North Africa, summer 1942. 252 was the first Coastal Command squadron to get the Beaufighter in 1941, and the first to bring the airplane to the Mediterranean. They operated in Egypt and had a detachment at Malta. the airplanes were used for anti-shipping strikes and long range strikes over the Western Desert.
From the photo I used, the props had been "sand blasted" nearly half their length, while the C1 insignia had been overpainted over the A1 when the insignia changed in May 1942.
The Tamiya kit is a lot easier to assemble, but this Revell kit creates a more detailed model, with open crew hatches on the belly and separate control surfaces, and the option of open or closed cooling gills on the cowling, not to mention the early horizontal stab, and I think it's worth the extra effort involved to finish it. Figuring out the secret of the landing gear was the Big Thing in this project.
4 attached images. Click to enlarge.