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I will be using the AK Real colos RAF interior greeen
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I will be using the AK Real colos RAF interior greeenI see this with interest. I just started this same kit build last week, it looks like a wonderful kit, easy to build out of the box. Just what I wanted to get started building again after almost 20 years.
What paint are you using for the interior? It looks pretty close to the chip that I had (maybe still have it). The chip that I had came from the wheel well of a Beaufighter, the one at Rockcliff, before restoration.
I order my AK real colors from Victorymodels.comThanks, Where can this line of colors be gotten? Most of the paints that have been using are no longer. The few bottles of paint that I have are twenty years old. I think it is time to get some new ones.
Lucky 13: I like your F-8 statement, they are a very impressive aircraft. My sister's high school boy friend, visited a number of years later, he was a Naval Aviator by then. He flew in to Hancock Field in an F-8. I got to get a good look at one. The next day when he left he flew low (as low as allowed) over the house, and he was moving at a good clip. The house is four miles off the end of the runway at Hancock.
Looks great Brian. Here's a wee pic of the interior of a Beaufighter nose section in the UK. Note the coloured trim wheels and other scraps of colour in the interior. The ammo boxes for the 20 mm rounds are black in this one.
Beaufighter Gallery | warbirds (wixsite.com)
Beaufighter Gallery | warbirds (wixsite.com)
From here: Beaufighter Gallery | warbirds (wixsite.com)
An external walkaround of the Beaufighter. These are all my own images.
RD253 | warbirds (wixsite.com)
Looking very good.
One minor point, although I'm a bit late. The radar operator faced the rear when operating the radar, the display for which was under the rear coaming, as seen in the diagram and my 1/32nd scale build below. (the remainder of the equipment was on the port side of the central fuselage.).
However, as he was also the navigator, he'd face forward, with the "repeater" instrument panel in front of him, beneath the forward coaming, as provided in the kit, so either arrangement is suitable.View attachment 608595View attachment 608596View attachment 608600