Revell 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter TF.X

[Ron Pearcy]

Lovely kit,it went together easily. I'm not sure about the accuracy of the wingtip lights and couldn't find any references to them.
The eagle eyed among you will notice the rear facing gun is wrong. When I was fitting the original it fell into the fuselage and is still rattling around inside,
Primed with Ultimate grey primer and Tamiya paints used elsewhere. Finished with Humbrol satin varnish . Kit decals used throughout.
EZ line used for antenna. May have a go at weathering this one as it looks very clean.
All advice/criticism welcome.

Ron.

 

[Wurger]

Looking very good though.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nicely put together and a very clean paint job for sure. The model could stand some weathering in my opinion.

On the wing tip lights, the forward facing ones should be red on port and green on starboard. You have these colours reversed and on the rear facing lenses. The rear ones were to assist with formation flying and should be clear. Sometimes the rear facing ones were faired over with metal and/or replaced with small lights on cylindrical extensions. Good reference pics would help to see what's there.

 

[fubar57]

Nice and different from the usual Beaufighters one always sees

 

[MIflyer]

When did Revell come out with a 1/48 Beau? I have their 1/32 but have yet to build it.

 

[Wurger]

Here is her shot ... it seems she had the second variant of the wing tip lights as Andy had mentioned.

the pic source: RAF photos

 

[fubar57]

When did Revell come out with a 1/48 Beau? I have their 1/32 but have yet to build it.

Brandly new last year

 

[Ron Pearcy]

Brilliant as always fellas. Thanks for the info regarding the lights.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work!

 

[Crimea_River]

You can just see the rear facing "bullet" type light mount in the pic that Wojtek posted.

 

[Ron Pearcy]

Thanks to everyone. As always excellent advice and information.