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#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...


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In my internet travels i came across this interesting scheme, which is the only actual pic i can find of this particular aircraft


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besides a few profiles


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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.



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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..?



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Some(extremely minor) research turned up this


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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 smile 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.


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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.


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#4555952 - 02/13/21 03:06 PM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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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.

#4555955 - 02/13/21 03:54 PM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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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 [Re: Nixer]  
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Originally Posted by Sunchaser
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?



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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 [Re: Sunchaser]  
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Originally Posted by Sunchaser
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.)

#4556228 - 02/15/21 07:12 PM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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The exhaust is for flame dampening. They can also be seen on the Wellington and Halifax..

236Sqn was Coastal Command.

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#4556303 - 02/16/21 09:59 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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Filler finished and the white down, it all looks a bit over exposed at the moment, especially under the lights.



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#4557794 - 02/26/21 01:23 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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#4557971 - 02/27/21 11:28 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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#4559259 - 03/10/21 09:26 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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I cannot reminisce on the plethora of fine nacelles that inhabit office environments, makes me feel too old and slow, like a Camel amongst Spitfires. biggrin

Plenty of little things done in the last little bit. I always feel like i am doing things back to front or in the wrong order..but i suppose it keeps me busy. The wheel bay sides needing a spray of colour, that i should have had done prior...required more funding to the Tamiya tape division.

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Wheels test fit.

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The wing landing light, i'm going to make up two better looking lights to sit over the raised lamp areas instead of just painting them.

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Torpedo, seams filled and ready for prime and paint.


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Engines.

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Checking out how it all looks so far test fitted up.

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#4559308 - 03/10/21 04:17 PM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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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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I wish a nurse would traumatise me biggrin


Torp sprayed and just waiting to be slightly scuffed up


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Yagi Array from some left over pieces. Going to be fiddly to clean up i think.

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#4560802 - 03/21/21 07:17 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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Fuselage and wing fairing red dope colour applied, Tamiya red with some hull red mixed in to darken.


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This pic shows the true colour

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even Citino approves biggrin

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#4560815 - 03/21/21 10:44 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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I just put a towel on it in summer, it's my lads old gaming chair. Maybe it will get a cushion one year biggrin


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#4561001 - 03/23/21 12:54 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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Wow just excellent work

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Ajay is really too talented for us...

Thanks for letting us enjoy your work man.


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Thanks guys, really smile Wait until you see the weathering though. I said i wanted dirty, but i may have gone a tad overboard. I'll grab some shots tonight and see what you think so far.


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#4561370 - 03/26/21 11:03 AM Re: First 2021 model, the mighty Beau [Re: Ajay]  
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Still more to do, the white really is a mongrel to photograph.

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Fantastic weathering job. cheers thumbsup


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