Beaufighter Part 3

  The Bristol Beaufighter kit from Tamiya has two very nice Hercules engines. One could spend quite a bit of time super detailing them up. However is it really required? Looking at the engine cowlings the engines are actually situated well back in the cowling. So far back that it’s very hard to see much. Keep in mind there will also be a very large propeller obscuring the view as well. Choices like this are one of the things I love about the hobby, you have the choice to do what you want. In this case, I’ve chosen not to detail up the engines as most of the detail will never be seen. The photos show the result, even using flash the detail is very hard to see. I’d rather spend my time on other facets of this kit.

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Beaufighter Part 2

Got some Aqueous interior green on today.  based on the first coat my thinner/paint ratio was off.   Second coat was better but still some issues.  Going to give the airbrush a good clean and then do some test spraying on the paint mule before I do any more major painting. I can proceed with the weathering and assembly of the interior. Actually looking at those gear doors, there are some mold marks to deal with, so another repainting will happen once those are cleaned up. Not much work this week due to catching covid which laid me out for 3 days. Finally clear on Saturday but I still do not have much energy. I did try something I’ve read about before for the seatbelts. I put the decal on some double-sided Tamiya tape and put a coat of decal set on it. Once it was dried, I then trimmed it.…

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YF-19 Update June 11th.

Been a very busy and challenging few months.    Life has thrown up a few issues so I took most of the month of May off from the Podcast and from the bench for more than a few moments at a time.   I completed the main assembly and applied that excellent canopy mask from Return 2 Kit Form.  These are great masks and make a time-consuming and annoying task much better.  Next up is priming.  In this case Black Stynylrez primer from Badger.  I had done a base priming coat on the wings earlier in the build process, thinking I might prime/paint them separately. The photo shows just after I applied the last of several light coats. Next is the first of 2 coats of the underside color, AK11888 Light Ghost Grey FS36375 from AK’s Gen 3 Acrylic line.  I used a 50/50 mix with their thinner.  I did forget…

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