Coastal Command Database

The Coastal Command Database at iModeler

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Coastal Command Crusader: 1/48th Tamiya Beaufighter

by Fly Past Rush on July 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Tamiya released their 1/48th scale Beaufighter duo starting in 1997 with the Mk.VI and added the TF.X later. This offering was pretty much The go-to kit in 1/48th scale, for a couple of decades, until Revell's release in 2018 offered a [...]

A giant spreads its wings: B-24 GR.Mk.VI, 10th Squadron RCAF

by Roland Sachsenhofer on March 12, 2024 · in Aviation · 42 ≡

A quote from Paul Kennedy's book "Engineers of Victory" should open this article: "Closing the air gap did not happen because some great person decreed it. There was a group of chiefly Canadian air engineers who in early [...]

1/72 Airfix Beaufighter TF Mk. X Coastal Command

by Greg Kittinger on May 20, 2021 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

I call this my FrankenBeau... This was from the old Dogfight Doubles kit (along with the Bf 109 G from my prior post) so a very basic kit. No gun ports, no ejector chutes, raised rivets and panels... I had accidentally purchased a box of [...]

It was going to be literally out of the box

by Scott Nelson on October 19, 2020 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

A while back on another site someone started a thread about building a kit without painting any of it. Just a pure build to see how well you could do without hiding flaws with paint. Most everyone said “no way.” But I kinda liked the [...]