Tag: Bristol Beaufighter

• Beaufighter TFX – Part Three – Lights, Camera, Ection Already

  

  The Israeli Beaufighter you see here – D 171 – was part of a group of five planes that were purchased in the UK in the 40’s by Israeli agents. They were supposed to be used by a film company in Scotland to make a documentary on Coastal Command. They were given permission to fly…

  Dick Stein

  June 4, 2022

  1:72 scale, History, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Club, Museums, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  1948, Airfix, Bristol Beaufighter, Israeli

• Beaufighter TFX – Part One – The Alternate Version

  

  I built an Airfix Beaufighter model a year or so ago – the modern kit – and was extremely pleased with the result. It was completed as an RCAF model with a famous pilot in it. This Beau is a very much older version of the plane from Airfix. Scalemates tells me it is a…

  Dick Stein

  June 2, 2022

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling Club, Scale Models, Utility Models

  Airfix, Bristol Beaufighter, old kit, stash

• Bristol Beaufighter – Part Four – EE-U

  

  It is not often I get to build a model of a different real aircraft. Of course the makers of the kits pattern them off real ones that they find in museums – and these can be built from the box. But if you do, you are just building what everyone else who has purchased…

  Dick Stein

  September 16, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bristol Beaufighter, Coastal Command, RCAF, rockets

• Bristol Beaufighter – Part Three – The Principle Of Opposing Forces

  

  Relax. This isn’t a political philosophy book. It’s still about plastic airplanes. The warped Airfix Beaufighter fuselage has been tamed. It took all day to do what might have been accomplished in a half hour, but we were on lockdown and time was elastic. The warp in the fuselage also warped the perception of how…

  Dick Stein

  September 14, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Workshop

  Airfix, AK paints, Bristol Beaufighter, fuselage, warpage

• Bristol Beaufighter – Part Two – Ce N’est Pas…

  

  Ce n’est pas de plus beau… Oh, it’s a Beaufighter all right, and a marvellously complex moulding design. But someone in India pulled it out of the mould early and hot and it cooled on the bench. So the two halves of the fuselage have taken their own particular set – and the interior floor…

  Dick Stein

  September 14, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly

  Airfix, Bristol Beaufighter, India, warpage

• Bristol Beaufighter – Part One – The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship

  

  I’ll just round up the usual suspects…                     I can’t think why I have not pulled a new Airfix Beaufighter off the shelf at Hobbytech sooner. Goodness knows they have had them for some time – both this version and a later model with a radar…

  Dick Stein

  September 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Bristol Beaufighter, multiple build, night fighter