Bristol Beaufort Mk 1, Special Hobby 1/72 nd scale

[coronado]

Hi everybody,

Here is my new kit : Special Hobby 1/72 nd scale Bristol Beaufort Mk 1 .

It's a beautiful kit with nicely engraved panel lines, cristal clear transparent parts, a few resin parts including the cockpit interior, engines and machine guns . Two decal options are provided for Coastal Command airplanes . The one I chose to make (MW°R) needs some minor rectifications to have something accurate : no antennae under the wings, use the long air scoops instead of the small ones, no tear drop shaped gonio mast, the rear right window is square, not round . I added a few details that can be seen on the pictures of the real airplane on internet :

Also, I detailed a little more the cockpit interior by adding the navigator's seat, the copilot seat but very few will be seen once the fuselage is assembled and the transparent parts are painted .

I decided to lower the stabilators and open the left side window, I also made the foot steps on the left side of the fuselage :

One thing very important that needs to be corrected : the engine cowlings opening is too wide and I added a ring of plastic inside, glue, sand in order to get the proper shape:

The guy standing on the left wing comes from Revell (formerly Preiser ?)

This particular plane was based at St Eval ; the decals are super, no film will be seen after been transferred .

Humbrol paints 102 and 125 were used for the top side and Revell matt black for the underside.

A challenging kit but I had pleasure building it .

Comments and critics welcome .

Cheers,

Pierre

[Duncan B]

Tres bien Pierre.

[Richard M]

Nice build, how did you find the fit of the transparencies?

[Paul A H]

Very nice, I quite fancy getting some of these Special Hobby kits.

[CliffB]

Great to see a Beaufort, especially in a nice setting

Cliff

[keith in the uk]

Bugger. i am working on the same kit which is 90% finished and you have beaten me too it . Great job ,

[Old VG 33]

Very interesting subject Pierre.

Congratulations.

Patrick

[_H_]

VERY NICE!

I wish someone would make a nice injection moulded Beaufort in 48th!

Really nice model sir.

Howard

[Max Headroom]

10/10! A great build of a very underrated plane.

Thanks for sharing.

Trevor

[max stafford]

Special Hobby stuff is excellent and the really nice thing about it is that it's almost like a 21st century version of the Frog range.

Dave.

[coronado]

Nice build, how did you find the fit of the transparencies?

Bad !! They are too wide !

[Richard M]

Makes a change from most of the other SH/MPM kits which I've built which have been too narrow! Good work on getting them to fit!

[Vulcanicity]

Great job! Mine is sat stalled on my desk now, makes me want to get my current project out of the way and finish it!

Thanks for tips, will take a note of your various modifications.

[ChancerUK]

Don't see many Beauforts here, great model, very nicely weathered.

Don't see many Beauforts here, great model, very nicely weathered.

[AnonymousDFB1]

Nice build

[woody37]

Great Beaufort in a great scheme, nicely detailed.

[BasicModelling]

It's not often you get to see a model of a Beaufort here, or anywhere else for that matter.. Very well made.. a beauty!!

[MikeR]

Great model!

Mike.

[Murdo]

Great weathering!

[stevehnz]

Great job, you've just about convinced me to go find one. I really like the look of your 102/125 topside colours, they do a good job of representing a weathered TSS & match well some of my old kits painted up years ago with Humbrols Authentic colours.

Steve.