Hi guys i said to you before i'm going to give
you a bit of a look-see into this so that you get a better idea there's as i said there's been
a couple of reviews about it a bit of talk about it and everything else so let's actually have
a look at it so you get quite a box it's full of stuff so that's the plastic kits pieces
which we'll look at a minute decal sheet quite nice usually fx printing nice and compact so
there's not much on only two choices of markings instructions the usual instructions from
Airfix now was what to expect there's a lot of parts and a lot of things to build in it
there's all sorts of see there's the two different wing trailing edge sections so there's all that
sort of thing there's also let's have a look so there's the the choice of there's actually two
of two of these turret sections in here they tell you which one to use it's not actually an option
so they obviously have plans for further ones the interesting thing is there's a bit of fair
bit of interior there too so it's pretty cool now just here for some reason they tell you
to cut this piece off now this is not flash or leftover part it's actually appears to be a part
that's going to be in the kit in another version so i'm not quite sure why they've got that there
but you can't fit the turret section without cutting that off but maybe there's other versions
that are going to include that part in it so that's quite good engines are the standard engines
the Centaurus not there's no Pratt Whitney's in it so you know it looks quite good there's a turret
again this is the two turret two gun turret which they give you so it's quite a quite
a little detail set there that's quite good torpedo or you can have the bombay
closed so they don't have the torpedo in so look it's just nicely well done
that's the turret being put in position so that's pretty cool then there's a little
cowling a piece that goes over it when you put it in fit it into place be interesting to
see if you can fit the turret after if before after you put that piece on so it'll be a bit of
a trial and error to see if it works otherwise masking that out when you get a paint
will be a pain there's your colour schemes there's the other one one of them is a Victoria
Cross winner so you can do a choice of markings i'm sure there's we'll already know that
there's quite a number of kit decal seat sheets out there at the moment just waiting to
be done okay clear parts are very good not well nice and clear there's two turrets in there
there's one there and there's one there df loops obviously from what i can understand this could
be for Malta based aircraft which they don't do that in there yet various other bits and
pieces it's nice and clear so it's well done parts you've got so many different choices
of parts plenty of sprues to play i like this this is a because that's quite sharp that's the
wing fillet that goes in that is quite sharp so what they've done is put these protective units in
there there's the two turrets that they talk about one's flatter and wider and the other one's
higher and smaller so who knows we may get anything in there that's the wing as you can
see it's quite good there's that structure there if you have a good look at the wing you
can see the detail is quite fine it's not not as bad as people are trying to make out so
it is quite good bombay under carrier propellers cowlings even down to having the supports for
the engine on there there's your cows wheels you get a pilot wow the old Airfix pilot interestingly
there's no gun yeah there's no gun so you only get the pilot so that's pretty cool torpedo all that
sort of bits and pieces this is the bombay this is the torpedo bombay so there's the doors closed
that's the section open you actually cut these open which i really really like because i'm fed
up with trying to join pieces together to close the bombay up so thanks for Airfix for doing that
they actually give you a couple of other doors you cut out these and there's the hanging doors
for the for the bombay which to me is intelligent i'm sick as i said i hate this business of
giving you bombay doors attack be closed there's more bits and pieces turret rings
this looks to be all guns and things like that cradles part of the undercarriage
so look it's a nice kit i think anybody buying it's going to enjoy building it
because we just haven't never had a good Beaufort what's out there to come for us love to see some
Aussie ones being done as well but i believe there's somebody working on a conversion to turn
it into an eight how far they can go with it don't know yet but we'll have to wait and see so just
thought you might like to have a look at her she's very good can't wait to get hold of one myself
and get it built so i'll leave you to it take care
