Of course not – Revell did the Beaufighter in the larger scale. But it’s a very helpful kit when one wants to construct a largescale Beaufort and doesn’t want to use the currently available vac-form kit that politeness prevents me from making further comment upon. I wanted to take the lessons learnt from the 1/72…
A little background to set the mood: The year was 1965 and FROG released the first iteration of a series of 1/72 representations of the Beaufort that was to adorn collector’s shelves and avid modeller’s benches alike. Without going too far into the kit’s history it suffered from the state of the art at the time…
