AIRA05043 - Airfix - 1/72 Bristol Beaufighter TF.10 - WWHP113319

AIRA05043 - Airfix - 1/72 Bristol Beaufighter TF.10 - WWHP113319

Preowned, Original seal, Mint

The Bristol Beaufighter grew out of the earlier Beaufort torpedo bomber and turned into one of the most versatile British aircraft of the war. Two Bristol Hercules radials gave it speed and reach, and four 20 mm cannon in the nose gave it a punch few contemporaries could match. It served as a night fighter, but its greatest success came with Coastal Command, where the TF.X could carry either a torpedo or rocket projectiles and took a heavy toll of Axis shipping. Late production TF.X aircraft gained a dorsal fin fillet, thimble nose radar, twin-bank rocket rails, and large propeller spinners. This Airfix 1/72 kit covers a wartime Dallachy strike wing aircraft and a postwar Operation Firedog machine in Malaya.

Box contents:

• 151 parts moulded in styrene
• Clear parts for cockpit canopy, observer blister, and glazing
• Detailed cockpit and observer position
• Two Hercules engines with cowlings and spinners
• Torpedo and rocket projectiles with rails
• 200 gallon drop tank
• Landing gear, wheels, and gear doors
• Waterslide decal sheet for two options: Beaufighter TF.10 RD805 OB-J, No. 45 Squadron, Operation Firedog, RAF Kuala Lumpur, Malaya 1949, and Beaufighter Mk.X RD432 P6-L, No. 489 Squadron RNZAF, RAF Dallachy, Scotland 1945
• Illustrated multilingual assembly and painting instructions
• Finished model measures 176 mm long with a 246 mm span