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  1. Hi all, although I am not a mainstream aircraft modeller (I normally make military and civil vehicles), I just had to make a Beverley. The reason is that as a youth, I was a member of 2121 Abingdon squadron, Air Training Corps, and RAF Abingdon was the home of the Beverley, there being 2 squadrons based there (47 and 53). This meant that the cadets had access to flying in the Bev, and I have clocked up a fair few hours in them, as well as Hastings, Argosy, Chipmunk, Anson and Varsity. The Bev was my favourite, and the best flights were the low level cross country (LLXC) trips. The first was in XB285 in August 1962, (gosh, was it really that long ago!). Normally when you went in a Bev, if there was no more than 2 of you, they let you on the flight deck. We had to sit on an equipment locker opposite the navigators position (no seat belts there, wouldn't happen today would it). If there were a few of you we had to go into the boom which was normally equipped with rear facing seats. On this occasion the navigator said to me, to stay in the freight bay, and I could join him in the position in the nose. He said that we would be flying as low as 100 ft. The pilot laughed and said, "you may well be at 100 ft down there, but we will not be, you had better call us and tell us what it is like"! I do not know how low we were but it was a fantastic view and we were very LOW at times. We flew out over towards East Anglia and crossed the coast near Lowestoft, out over the North Sea then returned inland back to Abingdon. At one point we flew over some boys fishing in a large pond and they actually ducked! I guess 162 ft. of wingspan roaring over you very low is an impressive sight. The Bev was after all the largest aircraft in the RAF until the Belfast came along. In August 1963 we took the RAF cricket team to Jersey in XB291, it was the largest thing that had been into Jersey and half the island came out to see it. We went on annual camp to RAF Kinloss, and our CO managed to get a Bev which was going to Leuchars, diverted and pick us up to fly home. I asked one of my friends if he had been in a Bev and he said no. I said to him he was bound sure to be sick as the boom was always a bit bouncy. Sure enough, he was fine and I was very airsick! Its not often I am right and I was wrong again. According to my log book I flew in 267 on 27th August 1963, and we did 1 hour and 30 minutes of continuation training (circuits and bumps) at Brize Norton, but I do not remember that one much. Happy days The model. This is the Mikro-Mir kit, and this is the first short run kit I have made, as well as the first one to have an aluminium finish. The kit is not easy to make as some parts do not fit very well and there are very few locating tabs or pins. However the decal sheet is superb. There are a couple of errors in the instructions, one did catch me out and it was too late to correct it. This is that the diagram shows the roundel on the fuselage in the wrong position, it should be 2 "port holes" further back towards the rear. I had applied them and given them a coat of Humbrol clear by the time I noticed. The other is that XB267 at the time it was at Abingdon and had day glow paint on it, was coded B and not T as stated. There are no decals to show the Abingdon coat of arms which was on the nose of all aircraft based there. It also requires an lot of weight in the nose. I am not very happy with the silver finish, I tried 3 different paints and ended up with Humbrol metalcote polished aluminium.The Beverley always has a problem with oil consumption and oil leaks over the wings. They were always either dirty, or very dirty. They used to say it was easy navigating a Bev, you navigated out and followed the oil slick back. I think I may make another at a later date, (I still have the Welsh Model vac-form kit which I never got round to attempting, so if anyone wants one! ), maybe I have learned some lessons with this, and will make the camouflaged one next. By the way, the Commer bus is from Oxford die casts and is very nice, and well worth the few quid it costs. Sorry for all the waffle, thanks for looking. Laurence Cassidy
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