Eduard Beaufighter Mk.If Update Sets (for Revell) 1:48

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Beaufighter Mk.If Update Sets (for Revell)

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Revell’s new Beaufighter gives us another good kit in the scale to widen our choices, and Eduard's new range of sets are here to improve on the kit detail in the usual modular manner.  Get what you want for the areas you want to be more of a focal point.  As usual with Eduard's Photo-Etch (PE) and Mask sets, they arrive in a flat resealable package, with a white backing card protecting the contents and the instructions that are sandwiched between.

 

 

Cockpit & Airframe (491124)

Two frets are included, one nickel plated and pre-painted, the other in bare brass.  A complete set of new layered instrument panels; side consoles with throttles and sidewall details are the primary parts on the painted set; new rudder pedals fabricated with the use of some 2mm styrene rod from your own stores; a skin for the undernose hatchway tunnel; antennae loops for the radar in the nose; main gear bay door internal structure; mesh panels for the engine intakes, and a frame for the wing-mounted landing light also supplied.

 

 

 

Zoom! Set (FE1124)

This set contains a reduced subset of the interior, namely the pre-painted parts that are used to improve on the main aspects of the cockpit, as seen above.  Whatever your motivations for wanting this set, it provides a welcome boost to detail, without being concerned with the structural elements.

 

 

 

Seatbelts STEEL (FE1125)

Eduard’s latest generation of belts are Photo-Etch (PE) steel, and because of their strength they can be etched from thinner material, which improves realism and flexibility in one sitting.  Coupled with the new painting method that adds perceived extra depth to the buckles and other furniture by shading, they are more realistic looking and will drape better than regular brass PE.  You get two sets of crew belts, with a scrap diagram showing how the belts should loop through the seat frame and where the buckles should be attached.

 

 

 

 

Masks Tface (EX727)

Supplied on a sheet of yellow kabuki tape, these pre-cut masks supply you with everything above, but also give you another set of canopy masks tailored to fit the interior of the glazing so that you can paint the interior and give your model that extra bit of realism.  In addition, there are wheel masks and frame hugging masks for the astrodome.

 

 

 

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