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Having enjoyed building the old Airfix "rivet queen" Liberator, I thought I would glue some more rivets together. This time it is a Seventies boxing of the old-tool Airfix 1/72 Bristol Blenheim IV (02027-1): This was an OOB build and apart from spending an age trying to get the cockpit canopy to fit, I left it with all it's warts, including slightly off-register roundels. Dave
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All the way from 1977, its says on the box. My first completed kit in a while and a real mojo booster. A nice kit for its age and vintage, the kit built up with no issues ootb, I brush painted it with Humrol acrylics, applying a number of thin white washes over the base coat of dunkelgrun. Top view showing the rear gunner/observer who is a Revell figure. The original kit has a bloke holding a camera pointing straight down, which is fine if you are displaying it in flight. Opposite view showing the original kit transfers (including the swastika) which still worked after 40 odd years in the box!! And there we have it, mojo restored thanks to all the brilliant builds I have been following on BM. I have a few more nearing completion in the pipeline, and having managed to post this I will try and squeeze in a couple more before end of year. Thanks for looking, and comments welcome. Cheers Greg.
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Yep, the last one for this year. I had hoped to get in another but realistically that ain't gonna happen! So my latest project, another old Airfix tooling from the 70's (sorry no box top this time) dug out from the bottom of the stash. The old Mk 1/IIB Hurribomber. I sanded back but didn't remove all the surface detail. Again its all brush painted with Humbrol acrylics including the tail band as I cannot get transfers to stick to curves! The outer gun ports which Airfix supply as transfers are replaced with paper napkin soaked in white glue after being painted red. Another of "old" Airfix;s gem kits I think. This tooling replaced or supplemented the original Mk VI the kit I have supplied the underwing rockets, long range tanks and 20mm cannons to make the various other marks but does not supply the volkes airfilter. The transfers are old and a wee bit out of register on the code letters... All in all another nice enjoyable build. Just to compare old with new I took a shot with the more recent Mk IIc tooling... The heavy recessed panel lines of today are quite noticeable. And that's it for 2016 from me, hope you liked. Thanks for looking, and Happy New Year to you all. Cheers Greg, all comments welcome.
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