Battered Blenheim - part 2

Work on resurrecting my badly built (not by me!) Airfix Blenheim Mk.IVF is now well under way.

Repair work included 'folding' the main undercart legs - they were already broken so a bit of work with pliers, knife and glue saw them suitably recessed.  The turret guns were a bit precarious and both fell off while I was sorting out other issues.  I replaced the barrels with a piece of bent florist wire.  The transparent parts were in a sorry state - covered in glue and/or badly aligned, so there was no option but to paint over them.  The two surviving prop blades were next to go.  As mentioned previously, the kit had been built as the Mk.IVF version with it's under fuselage pack of four MGs - astonishingly all four barrels have survived!
Being a Mk.IVF rather restricts the marking options - and ruled out the Romanian and Finnish versions which some readers (who clearly know me well...) had predicted.
Fear not - I managed to find a suitably esoteric scheme.  All will be revealed soon.

Krap Katyusha

More 20mm Sovs now.  The Katyusha on Studebaker chassis is a Russian plastic kit.  It was a truly horrible thing to build.  I wish I could remember the maker so I could warn you against it!  The launcher rails are the best bits but even they needed a deal of straightening so they'd fit and then bracing with steel wire.  The cab?  Let's not go there.  If the outsize red star distracts the viewer from the model's shortcomings that's no bad thing!

The ammo carrier is a good old Airfix Opel - now under new management!

Red Star Express

My recently completed batch of 20mm Soviet vehicles included these lorries.  They will probably end up as part of an Army level LOG column.  The fuel tanker is a plastic kit of East European origin while the other lorry is a die cast toy.

T50

Originally finished in 'winter' camo, I recently repainted this T-50 light tank in a more conventional hue.  The model is an old (early 1990s) Red Star resin kit.
The T-50 was intended to replace the T-26 series and featured a number of improvements in running gear and armour layout.  As war nearer, however, some clever comrade noticed that it cost nearly as much to produce a T-50 as it did to make one of the new T-34 medium tanks.  Which certainly explains why you may not have seen one before!

I did say it was a light tank - here it is next to an Armourfast T-34.