The
Australian Air Force used the Beaufighter or “Whispering Death” to great
effect against Japanese ships in WWII. This Hasegawa kit is
excellent. I built it out of the box except for homemade
“hedgehog” exhausts because the kit’s version is overly simplified with
none of the openings present! I made them by cutting telephone wire
insulation at an angle and then carefully gluing the micro-triangle to the kit
part (many times these bits stuck to my finger!).
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I
mixed my own shade of foliage green until I got something that looked
about right. Model was pre-painted with Testors Aluminum and
weathering was achieved by carefully scraping away paint in selected areas
and various watercolor washes. Cockpit is very visible in this
scale; I used the kits instrument panel decal and aluminum foil seat
belts.
I
resolved the delima of satisfying my wife’s crusade against the
“dustmagnets” by displaying them in a homemade oakwood shadow box that
hangs nicely on the wall in my office!
Brian
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