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This is my last build of 2024 and first completion of 2025, being build over New Years in the Inaugural New Year Blitzbuild. It's a newly released 1/144 Beacon Models Bf109E-7/Trop. Alongside the Spitfire, Beacon have just released 10 new reboxes with new decals to cover all the variants the plastic accounts for. Previously both kits were only available in a double set together, so the separate releases are very welcome. I got the whole new range through the Kickstarter to fund it, so I've got models for a few years worth of Blitzbuilds! I decided to do a Trop for this build. I've always found trop schemes interesting so choosing this one for the first build was an easy choice. If you aren't familiar with Blitzbuilds, the premise is that you have 24 hours to start and finish a kit. Choosing the scheme with a mismatched wing was perhaps not the smartest decision for a blitzbuild, given that I'd have to more or less paint the camo twice. I'm always up for a challenge in a blitzbuild though! For a sense of scale: Link to the WIP: Links to some of my previous Beacon Models builds: Bf109E-4 Spitfire Mk.1a Bf109E-3a from last year's Christmas Blitzbuild
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Given that I made the initial suggestion to have a second round, I feel obligated to make an entry! Oh no.... anyway! I'm sure I'll find time between exam prep. I'll be digging into this pile of plastic from Beacon Models. I'll probably do the Bf109E-7/Trop. In last year's Christmas Blitzbuild I did one of these. It's a great little kit, ideally suited to blitzbuilding.
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Here is the last of the three kits I finished in the very last days of last year. It's Beacon Models' 1:144 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia built as a Mk.IIb with the aid of decals from an AML sheet. It represents P8325/RF-B, flown by Czech pilot Sgt. Josef Balejka and Polish ace P/O Boleslaw Gladych, both of No. 303 Sqn, based at Northolt, spring 1941. For this build, I made use of the parts available in the kit for other variants as yet unreleased such as the cannon-armed "b-type" wing and the Rotol propeller. As with the Mk.Ia which I built simultaneously, I added the underwing probe and the wires, in this case the lateral IFF ones, but I also added the Coffman starter on the starboard nose from scrap plastic. The triangle from the radio mast was removed as corresponded to the wireless radio IIb variant. I also fashioned a rear-view mirror from etched metal sprue. The kit was fully painted and varnished with brush. The stencils decals came from the kit with the main decals coming from the AML sheet. This was a disappointment as, apart from seeing the printing pixels on some colours, the yellow and the grey were completely off, being too light. I ended up overpainting these and the red of the markings. As with the other kit, I skipped using the decals for the gun tapes but gave up and painted them on instead. Thanks for looking and all comments are welcome. Miguel
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Hello everyone! Here is another of the three kits I finished in the very last days of last year. It's Beacon Models' 1:144 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia. It was built mostly OOB and is finished in the option offered in the kit: N3196/XT-L, flown by P/O Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton of No. 603 Sqn based at RAF Hornchurch, September 1940. As commented elsewhere, this is a very nice kit with optional parts to make most Mk.I and II machines, sadly marred by heavy panel lines. In this build, I replaced the rear cockpit part with a 3D-printed one with a pilot which I received as part of the launching of the kits. My only additions were the underwing probe and the radio wire. The kit was fully painted and varnished with brush. The decals came from the kit but I overpainted the red of the markings as I found it to be too brown. I tried to use the decals for the gun tapes but gave up and painted them on instead. Thanks for looking. Miguel
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Hello everyone! Here is my latest kit. It's Beacon Model's brand new 1:144 Messerschmitt Bf 109E built as an E-7/B representing "Blue H", of II./SG1, Luftwaffe, Stalingrad, USSR, during winter 1942-43. After a couple of years of development and troubles and tribulations following a kickstarter, Beacon Models finally released their first kits, the Spitfire Mk.I and the Bf 109E-4 in a double "versus" box, the individual boxings sadly being delayed. I have been supporting them since the kickstarter because of the various types that they plan to release around the Battle of Britain theme and I have received four boxes of this first set. I immediately decided to have a go at the Emil first with the intention of building the Spitfire later on this year. The sprue contains parts that basically allow you to make any version of the Emil, coming with two wings (for the E-1 and the later variants with cannon), three types of canopies, types of drop tanks, the two types of spinner, tropical filter and racks and bombs for both the single SC250 or the quadruple SC50 layout. I was a bit surprised that neither an armoured windscreen option nor the armoured headrest used in later Emils were included though. The kit was a joy to build with all parts fitting without fuss after removing the little flash that was surprisingly present considering the moulds are new. Gap filling was minimal. I did like the breakdown of parts and the way the main undercarriage parts were made which, although with a little wiggle room, make it easy to get the positioning right. The only downside to this kit is the heavy panelling, especially on the underside of the wing. I applied a couple of coats of paint in an attempt to reduce them with mixed results. I also didn't like some of the sprue gates which were a bit nasty to clean up. I scratchbuilt the armoured windscreen and headrest and the port underwing probe. I also replaced the main cockpit part with a 3D printed part with a pilot that I got as a bonus from Beacon Models. I also added the radio wire. The decals supplied are for Von Werra's E-4. Since I have already built this machine using an Airfix kit three years ago, I decided to go for a Jabo Emil. Although the option I made is depicted with a single SC250 bomb, I really wanted to make the SC50 load. There are photos of other SG1 machines with this loadout so I doubted it would be wrong to do so. The kit was fully painted and varnished with brush. The particular markings for this machine came from a Print Scale sheet with the insignia and stencils coming from the kit itself. All of them behaved and settled very well. I'm very pleased with how it came out. In terms of ease of construction and accuracy, this kit beats its direct competitor, the Armory kit. Thanks for looking and, as usual, all comments are welcome. Miguel
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Recently, I built four 3D printed prototypes of the upcoming 1/144 Beacon Models Spitfire Mkia kit. Being 3D printed prototypes, these will have been more challenging then the final product is going to be and aren’t fully representative of that either. They went together pretty well and are nicely detailed for the scale. The canopy parts were very thin, which was a challenge due to the 3D printed resin material, I cracked two of the spares I was provided with. The surface detail is very nice, panel lines are pretty good for the scale (I emphasised them with a dark wash). The only problem I can report is that I’m going to have to wait a while until the plastic version is on sale before I can start building about 10 boxes of these. I think another modeller is building the Mkiia version now, also 3D printed prototypes. The roundels have a bit of a white outline, but these aren’t the final versions, which will be printed by Cartograf. The first one which would become SH-W
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