This Airfix Blenheim is in pretty good shape so following a light dusting I have simply varnished over the decals. Once again the model is a tribute to its original builder.
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Unblemished Blenheim
This Airfix Blenheim is in pretty good shape so following a light dusting I have simply varnished over the decals. Once again the model is a tribute to its original builder.
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Great model, I must get one of these for my early war colledtion
Solid model plane that. Shame its real life service record wasn't that solid.
Cheers,
Pete.
Al
If you're passing you can have this one!
Pete
Indeed - but a couple of years earlier it could have been one of the greats.
I like Blenheim.
Short nose (MK1) was very nimble and agily too.
the long nose was (with a touch) too stable, to escape neighbor fighters, such I-16 or P-39 and Hurricane Mk II..
The usual nickname of Blenheim in the Finnish Air Force was Pelti-Heikki ("Tin Henry").
The Finnish Blenheims flew 423 missions during the Winter War, and close to 3,000 missions during the Continuation War and Lapland War.
Blenheim machine-gunners also shot down eight Soviet aircraft.
Thirty-seven Blenheims were lost in combat during the wars.
The box is a veritable Alladin's cave of wonders Tim. Great looking warbird, and let's not forget that it spawned the Beaufighter etc.
Cheers, Peter
maximex
You chaps seemed to do very well with aircraft other nations thought were a bit rubbish!
Peter Douglas
It is a nice looking thing.
I have one Airfix Blenheim (1967)
I like it, nice work, graceful and light.
Blenheim was manufactured in Finland (57 planes) under a license
and rest made in britain.
Altogether about 100 machines, Mk 1 and Mk IV. was in use
The problem was a cramped tower.
Could not mount 12.7 mm Colt tai Berezin mg
Fokker XXI its same engine
Long nose carries nearly 1,000 kg of bombs
Short nose (original English hangers) 500kg load
One Blenheim IV BL-200 is exhibited at the Central Finland Aviation Museum.
The renovation was started in 2006 and completed in 2008
I am going to have to make my "new" Airfix Mk 1F Fighter version of this
After I put the finishing touches to my Fairey Battle
Yes I am going to paint the Blenheim up in the "day light" colours in honour of the poor buggers who had to fly the beast against the Luftwaffe in 1940.
Nice!
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