Bristol Beaufighter Mk X, 22 Squadron RAF, Burma, late 1944

[russ c]

Hi Everyone

 Thought you wouldn`t mind if I subjected you to some photo`s of my latest completion

My attempt at making a `Thimble Nosed` Beaufighter from Tamiya`s 1/48 TFX Kit

As usual built mostly from the contents of the box

With a few minor additions and improvements

Additions include: making a gun camera housing for the top front fuselage from a spare intake from the kit, milliput, wire and crystal clear.......

some extra antenna, wind screen wiper, engine cowl braces and what I presume is a `pee tube` near the rear stbd wing root

Improvements including : moving the tail trim tab actuators to the underside, drilling out all the gun barrels and little venturii type things on the exhausts.

Decals from Xdradecal set X48188 and some of the kits

Hope you enjoy the pic`s, thanks for looking

Cheers Russ

 

 

 

[Zigomar]

Nice "Beau" Russ. Wich model is it? Airfix I guess? Cheers.

[RidgeRunner]

Nice one, Russ. The Beau is certainly an attractive machine and you bring her to life!

 

Martin

 

[Bertie McBoatface]

Thats a very good model and clever photographs too.

[DaveH]

Very nice, I really like the weathering...

 

DaveH

[bigbadbadge]

What a cracking model of the gorgeous Beau. Great work Russ looks fantastic.

Chris

[Markh-75]

HEY!!! Liking that! lots; love the markings, and how the model stands PROUD! Beau-tiful job!😎

[Rich G]

Really nice looking Beaufighter you have there, love the detail weathering and paint scheme very nice indeed.

 

Rich

[Dunny]

Lovely build and finish Russ - that's a cracking Beau!

 

Cheers,

 

Roger

[Dric]

Lovelly and well done Beau, congrats.

Looks like Pinochio in uniform 😆

[trickydicky210]

Lovely Beaufighter Russ

👏👏👏👏

[Maginot]

Nice work. That jungle backdrop looks suitably hot and steamy.

[stevehnz]

That is a wonderful job Russ, hard to believe the nose isn't a kit one, it really looks the goods.

Steve.

[Dave Slowbuild]

Great model Russ, love the improvements you’ve made and the excellent finish!

 

Dave

[Andy Dyck]

Hi Russ,

very nice one! I am always astonished about your choices of rare types !   Superb photography as always!

 

Andy 

[M_Sinclair]

Beautiful Beau! 

 

-Matt

[Wulfman]

I was going to say beautiful Beau, but I was beaten to it, great build !

 

Wulfman

[Pete Robin]

Lovely. Just the right amount of wear and tear to make it look used.

Regards

Pete

[Kampartiger]

Superb build,never seen a cbi beau being modelled especially with the thimble nose.

[russ c]

On 4/25/2022 at 3:34 PM, Zigomar said:

Nice "Beau" Russ. Wich model is it? Airfix I guess? Cheers.

Thanks Jean, it`s the Tamiya 1/48 one

 

[russ c]

7 hours ago, stevehnz said:

That is a wonderful job Russ, hard to believe the nose isn't a kit one, it really looks the goods.

Steve.

Thanks Steve, actually the nose comes with the kit, the gun camera was the biggest mod` I had to do

Cheers Russ

[russ c]

10 hours ago, Dric said:

Lovelly and well done Beau, congrats.

Looks like Pinochio in uniform 😆

Thanks Dric, you`re not wrong. I`ve built a few Beau`s over the years and this is the first time I`ve dared to do one. I built the Matchbox one a loooooonnnnnngggggg time ago and cut the thimble off it to make a different mark.

Cheers Russ

[Mig88]

Absolutely superb !!

 

Miguel

[mick b]

Very nice and unusual scheme to boot 👍👍

 

Mike

[RMCS]

Superb finish