Welkin

Lucky you - I always seem to end up on the losing side! 🙄

When asked "Would you like a cup of tea or coffee?" the correct response is "Yes, please"

Two thoughts: Were the crows jay-walking? If you were obsessed with crows would you be raven mad?

Mea culpa - quite right!

To make a long story short I became an editor.

In the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels is a character, Mr Slant, who is both! How scary would that be?

Plus it is important to never split an infinitive and to almost always avoid an oxymoron.

I entered ten puns in a contest to see which would win. No pun in ten did.

There’s a fine line between a numerator and a denominator. Only a fraction of people will get this!

Hi Troy Yes, it was my kit - every so often I would take it out of the box, look at it, then put it away again! Eventually I realised that I was never going to build it, so I had better pass it on to someone who would. Pleased to see that you have started it - I shall follow your build with interest. Martin (Welkin)

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

A woman in labour suddenly shouted, “Wouldn’t! Shouldn’t! Couldn’t! Didn’t! Can’t!” “Don’t worry,” said the doctor, “Those are just contractions.”

As opposed to ships that did actually exist? I have never understood the logic of this (apart from the money aspect, of course!)

My wife asked for peace and quiet while she cooked dinner. So I took the batteries out of the smoke alarm.

I remember building one of these many years ago when I was nobbut a lad - it made a nice model but it was very much of it's era, particularly with the vacuform sails. As I remember it was a straightforward build with no issues. It would have been nice if Airfix did all three of Brunel's wonderful ships (in the same scale) but I guess that potential sales wouldn't justify new tooling - probably OK if they can reuse the old moulds, though. Mind you, I would have thought a Great Britain would be feasible, and the kit would sell well to visitors to the actual ship?

New tool 1/48 Gannet = rehashing?

In 1/72 I would have thought that British bombers would sell well. We've had: Lancaster x 2 Wellington x 2 Whitley Blenheim So maybe (not necessarily in order)? Battle Halifax (x2)? Lincoln In 1/48: Gannet AS

Pity that they can't do something similar with their Spitfire FR.XIVe

Thanks for posting your thread; I have got the diagram with the aerial positions. I think that the change to sky undersides came after L6836 was damaged on 16 August, so I imagine that she retained the standard black/white finish, with black control surfaces until SOC. Interestingly Ashfield also scored the second AI kill on the 7 November 1940; I can't find any details about that, but it presumably was another Blenheim IF? FIU was very proud of the fact that, despite not being an operational unit of the RAF, its crews shot down the first enemy aircraft to be destroyed by every type of AI, from Mk.III to Mk.X!

What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? Same middle name!

I went into a pet shop. I said, “Can I buy a goldfish?” The guy said, “Do you want an aquarium?” I said, “I don’t care what star sign it is!”

I have just picked up Airfix's 1:48 Blenheim I. Looking at the layout I reckon that they could produce a Blenheim IV without too much expense - I would have thought that it should sell well?

As a modeller whose eyesight and dexterity are declining rapidly 1:48 suits me just fine. I used to do 1:72 but there was never any time in my life when 1:144 was manageable!

Resurrecting this old thread, I have just managed to secure Airfix's earlier boxing of the Blenheim IF (hard to find, but the later one doesn't have the sprue with the gun-pack). I am going to build Ashfield's L6836 but haven't been able to get much more information than above about the aircraft's markings. She has an even-numbered serial, so I assume type 'A' DE/DG on top, but no idea whether she would have had black/white or all-black undersides? Code 'ZQ' in grey, but probably no individual code letter in July 1940? Bowyer in 'Fighting Colours' lists Blenheim IF L6837 of FIU in July 1940 with unit code ZQ but no individual letter. Graham Warner's book states that "L6836 was damaged during a raid on Tangmere on 16 August"; sent to Cuncliffe Owen for major repairs, but damaged again during another raid on 19 September and SOC. Radar would have been A.I. Mk.III. Given the work that FIU were doing in the development of radar I suspect that there are few, if any, photographs of their Blenheim aircraft. I am hoping that whatever I decide no-one will be able to prove that I am wrong!

Thanks; I thought that must be the case. I will have to find one of the original boxings if I can.