bryanm

It's a good kit but take it slowly with the fuselage spine insert - I found the fit not brilliant but that may have been my ham-fistedness. I like the 93 Squadron colours! Battledress looks much smarter than the wooly pully rig that replaced it. If you haven't seen it, it's well worth looking at Sabrejet's thread here:

Brilliant - the cockpits are amazing!

Excellent - really like the separate Blue Steel as well!

Great result from an old but still good kit. I did the Dambuster version a few years ago and it's still the centrepiece of my collection.

Great result and thanks for the WIP. I'll certainly be referring back to that when mine comes out of the stash, as and when some RAF/SAAF decals become available.

Beautiful clean build - one fo my favourite planes, and favourite colours!

Excellent - I've had this in the stash for quite a while and must get it started!

Very nice and a beautiful finish - epitome of a desktop model! Great to see Atlantis doing these re-issues.

Good result - mine is a way behind yours so encouragement to get on with it!

Thanks for the comments and 'likes'. Next project, making slow progress, is the ICM Beaufort - rather different to current Airfix offerings!

Lovely clean build - Frog kits are always a nostalgia blast and like yours can still shape up pretty well!

Looks great - quite a phoenix!

Great build of an unusual subject and interesting colour scheme.

Wonderful model of a beautiful plane from the Golden Age. What silver did you use? I have the DW Proctor in the stash so must start it soon!

Here's my newly finished Airfix Blenheim and what a great kit it is. The detail is excellent and the parts fit, with the usual comment about cleaming paint off mating surfaces, is very good. The cockpit, turret and undercarriage are real works of art and engineering in plastic. I've read on this forum and elsewhere that the nose glazing isn't a great fit. It is essential to fit the cockpit assembly very precisely into the port fuselage half and in particular to make sure that the pins on the side of part D10 engage with the holes in the fuselage. I didn't: it pushed the fuselage badly out of alignment, and I had a horrible time getting the nose glazing to an even half reasonable fit with much Kristal Kleer to smooth out the bumps. Airfix provide the vertical recce camera (parts A29 and G1) but curiously don't mention it in the instructions. It is shown through the lower hatch (G2) in step 83 and it's an easy fit. A look through photos in Graham Warner's book on the Blenheim shows they were always parked with their flaps up so that is what I've done, although it was a bit of extra work to do so. It's from the box apart from foil harnesses and a stretched spue antenna. I drilled out the intake tubes that poke through the front of the engines. It's brush painted with Humrol enamels. I used the Eduard mask set for the glazing and it worked very well although I think there are doubts as to which panels should be clear and which painted over - probably only a photo of the original could settle that for certain. Thanks for looking!

Great result from an ancient kit!

Very smart indeed - unusual scheme and variant.

Excellent - I need to get mine out of the stash!

Wow!

Excellent - mine is not far behind!

Nice build and unusual colours on a great kit - superb!

Well done for finally finishing this classic kit! Only comment is that it looks as though the canopy wasn't designed to be posed open and sits a bit high - I had the same problem with the Grand Phoenix Firefly a few years ago and was very nervous about squashing it down - but it did go down and didn't split!

Great result of a half forgotten type - thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting this - I have the kit in my sash but have been waiting for some aftermarket RAF/SAAF decals to be released before starting it. Hopefully the release of the ICM kit will provoke that.

Great result and superb finish. Thanks for the info on the dayglo stripes - will watch for that when I build mine.