#4555768 - 02/12/21 10:31 AM
First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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I've finally managed to get comfy enough in my new job to start spending a few nights a week plodding along with a new kit, and i mean plodding. Time just keeps going by faster and faster, it's already Feb 2021, crazy man. I was going to jump into another 109, a G6 with an early Hartmann scheme - pre tulip nose, but the more i looked at the Beaufighter kit, the more i wanted to unbox it..so i did, and pushed Hartmann aside. The box art paint scheme doesn't do much for me and neither does the other option included in the instructions so i started looking for something a bit more interesting than this... In my internet travels i came across this interesting scheme, which is the only actual pic i can find of this particular aircraft besides a few profiles On first sight i knew this was the one i wanted to paint. Many hours of research hasn't turned up much excepting that it was serial LZ293 that was eventually with 236Sqn in march 1944 and crashed near Davidstow Moor a/f Cornwall in august 1944. I have before seen the colour scheme referenced as an anti u-boat scheme used by a/c based at Davidstow moor, although, it may just be the coastal command scheme. Note the strip around the wing root. This was red doped fabric to seal the joint between fuselage and wing fairing. Not a well known fact. One other bit i dug up is that this plane below is supposedly the same plane after a repaint...and before it's crash, obviously. And that is about it. Unfortunately i have no Beaufighter books in my collection and there just does not seem to be much info on the net about this plane at all. The kit doesn't come with the needed Yagi Array, the ASV (Air to Surface Vessell) shown in the image above of LZ293 in the air, what's a Yagi Array i hear you ask..? Some(extremely minor) research turned up this If anyone is interested there is a bunch of links in THIS thread about early ASV Radar and Yagi arrays. I should be able to make that up fairly easily and i'll also need to add the directional finder and glass canopy for it just aft of the cockpit. Besides that i've milliputted up the 6 extra mg ports in the wings and tamiya puttied them, smoothing still to be done. I'm going with a two tone top camo that i haven't done as neatly as say my spitfire in the same colours and changing the white to cover the complete top engine nacelle section, just because i think it adds interest..and looks cool I've also mucked around a bit with preshading colours as i want her to be a bit daggy and have a workhorse look about her. The underneath and side work i have done is possibly too dark and may require a lot of thin white coats to cover it, but i'm in no rush, and i would like patches of it to show through. The taping has begun. I started taping on Monday night and planned to have that finished and get some white down this week but have not managed to find the couple of hours i need. Weekend just rolled in though so i should be able to start whitening her up tomorrow morning, after bacon and eggs of course. This time i will not hit 'Preview New Thread', think i have posted, and then close down my pc
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#4555955 - 02/13/21 03:54 PM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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Most certainly an interesting choice, a white Beaufighter.
Torpedo?
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#4556028 - 02/14/21 12:46 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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Interesting subject choice.
The Beaufighter is in the running for ugliest in class but it was an overlooked workhorse.
What's the deal with those exhausts? I have only seen that type once, on the CA Boomerang from Australia. Due to engine vibration issues the engines were slung forward more and the nose was dropped back slightly to maintain centre of gravity, i quite like the ugly pug nose look myself. The weird porcupine exhaust, possibly a flame retarder setup? Most certainly an interesting choice, a white Beaufighter.
Torpedo? I would like to sling a torp underneath as i don't have a torp armed model yet. I have to decide today as i will need to fill the rocket mount locations before painting underneath.
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#4556138 - 02/15/21 05:50 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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Interesting subject choice.
The Beaufighter is in the running for ugliest in class but it was an overlooked workhorse.
What's the deal with those exhausts? I have only seen that type once, on the CA Boomerang from Australia.
I don't *know* but the trunking of all the exhausts together and down under the wing suggests a night flying modification - to keep the exhaust out of the line of sight of the pilot and crew, to preserve night vision to allow looking for marine phosphorescence? (e..g around U boat snorkel or periscope?, or for night operations from relatively small grass fields, and navigation by visual orientation over unlit countryside/coasts.)
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#4556228 - 02/15/21 07:12 PM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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The exhaust is for flame dampening. They can also be seen on the Wellington and Halifax..
236Sqn was Coastal Command.
Last edited by KraziKanuK; 02/15/21 07:16 PM.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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#4556303 - 02/16/21 09:59 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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#4557794 - 02/26/21 01:23 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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It's going to be amazing...
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#4557971 - 02/27/21 11:28 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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Some years ago, my staff caught me playing EAW during a lunch break. Highly amused by this they proceeded to run round the studio arms outstretched, making 'takka' noises. My receptionist Kay resembled a Beaufighter, with a fine pert pair of nacelles on her.
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#4559308 - 03/10/21 04:17 PM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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Those are some nice nacelles.
Seriously, when I see clear parts, I think of the ones I messed up with my sloppy gluing as a kid. I may be traumatized...NURSE!!!!
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#4560802 - 03/21/21 07:17 AM
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#4560812 - 03/21/21 10:04 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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Vintage Anglepoise lamps....very sought after now! Next project; seat cushion re-upholstery?
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#4561001 - 03/23/21 12:54 AM
Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau
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#4561140 - 03/24/21 02:35 AM
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Ajay is really too talented for us...
Thanks for letting us enjoy your work man.
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