DAP Beaufighter

The  Tamiya kit with some minor mods to make it an Aussie production version. Some resin bit to come, but mostly OOTB.  And a sweet change from kit bashing old MPC Firebirds!

It's looking good Chris. Being Tamiya I assume the quality and detail ar spot on.

The Beaufighter is one of my favourite WWII planes.

Looking forward to more.

Tamiya it is Al. Going together well, as you'd expect of Tamiya. It's not 100% accurate for an Australian production plane, but it will satisfy me.

Cockpit with some PE & resin & tape.



The forest under on the wing is my late realisation that while I'd plugged the gunports in the leading edge, I'd not done the cartridge ejection ports. Our version used 4x .50 cal as well as the 4x 20 mm cannons. Quite a punch.

Mostly there. I'm still working out the armament. Bombs or rockets. Just to muddy the waters, the RAAF used both RAF and USAAF bombs!  Too hot ATM to do much other than early AM.

I'll do a bit more weathering, and I may build it as A8-113. Why, because it crashed on take off on the WW 2 airstrip my house is built on.  Though it wouldn't have been armed.
Decisions, decisions!

" it crashed on take off on the WW 2 airstrip my house is built on."

Wow!! Not many can say that Chris.

It's looking good though. Is there any camo to on yet or is it staying plain green?

Staying the all over green. The transfers gave me MUCH agro, so much so I tore them up in disgust. Didn't want them in the stash to bite me in years to come.  So the squadron codes are wrong, I can live with it. Some clear to come, then the glazing and bombs or rockets.