ixo-MODELS

Junior Series

PXIJ00031 – BRISTOL Beaufighter Mk X

RAF the D-day livery.

Diecast

1/72 Scale

Though the Series called ‘Junior’ the quality of 1/72 scale plane models by ixo is very good.   Models are very difficult to find, all previous issues were sold out in no time.

“When the last Beaufighter (SR919) left the Bristol Aeroplane Company's Weston-super-Mare works on September 21, 1945, a total of 5,562 aircraft of this type had been produced in the United Kingdom. Of these some 1,063 were Mark Vls and 2,231 were Mark Xs. During its operational career it had played a prime role in defeating the Luftwaffe's night "blitz" of 1940-1941, and it had operated in every major campaign of the war, carrying out the last operational sortie of the European war, a strike against German shipping in the Skagerrak, and serving with distinction in the Pacific until the capitulation of Japan. The Beaufighter may have been the product of improvisation but it was a remarkably successful one.”