Beaufighter kit Bash
The Classic old Matchbox Beaufighter kit
3 realistic colours!
My plans to change the nose
Cutting off the long nose
Cutting into the tail fin
Tail fin and nose cut away and filled
Panel line scribe
Panel Line scuba of fuselage
Matchbox Parts
Bash parts from Airfix and spares bin
Main assembly dry fit
Detailing the motors
Filling and scribing the wings
Creating the hole for the tail wheel
Scratch built interior from an old P-40 kit
Painting begins
Custom masks for wavy camo pattern
Floating paper mask for camo
Australian aftermarket decals
Adding some missing panel lines to underside
Painted with Hataka acrylic red line
Kommentit
1 29 July 2018, 22:56
Harry HoudiniThanks James... it was a lot of fun to kit bash the old Matchbox kit with the spares from the new Airfix one
29 July 2018, 23:18
Łukasz GlińskiThanks Harry for sharing. Your project inspired me to start couple of Matchbox in-flight builds 👍
6 August 2018, 07:22
Album info
What started as a simple Matchbox build for fun, ended up in a massive kit bash and upgrade. The result was much better than expected but the journey was even more fun.
