Beaufighter kit Bash
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The Classic old Matchbox Beaufighter kit
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3 realistic colours!
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My plans to change the nose
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Cutting off the long nose
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Cutting into the tail fin
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Tail fin and nose cut away and filled
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Panel line scribe
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Panel Line scuba of fuselage
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Matchbox Parts
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Bash parts from Airfix and spares bin
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Main assembly dry fit
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Detailing the motors
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Filling and scribing the wings
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Creating the hole for the tail wheel
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Scratch built interior from an old P-40 kit
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Painting begins
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Custom masks for wavy camo pattern
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Floating paper mask for camo
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Australian aftermarket decals
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Adding some missing panel lines to underside
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Painted with Hataka acrylic red line
Hozzászólások
1 29 July 2018, 22:56
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Thanks 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
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Thanks 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.