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Hello All, Time for a new project. Whilst making the new Airfix Blenheim 1 as A-RE, I dug out all my other Blenheims (all 1/72): Airfix MkIV (x2), MPM MkIV, Frog Mk1 (x2), Revell (Frog rebox) Mk1. Didn't realise I had 6! The Frog Blenheim is a very nice kit, not far behind the new Airfix kit, and certainly easier to assemble! I've decided to make a Finnish Blenheim on skis, as shown here. I was interested because the skis are retractable, and if you look at the picture there's an additional metal fairing around the lower nacelles to blend with the retracted ski. So there's a bit of work to do on the undercarriage, and there are some other mods to be done to make it a Finnish Blenheim not an RAF one. So here's a sprue shot: The decals for this are a rather nice RAF fighter scheme and a post war (roundels) Finnish scheme. My first stop was the undercarriage bay. The kit parts fit nicely and I have cut away some of the supporting plastic: Then I boxed in the wheel wells and added front and rear spars and those tank things from scrap bomb doors from the Airfix Mk1: The cockpit supplied by Frog is enhanced using the new Airfix cockpit as a guide, bearing in mind that not much is visible when the canopy is on. The red colour is not a scalpel accident, it's the paint on the wine bottle foil dissolving in superglue: And painted. Finnish built examples were apparently grey inside, but I've gone with interior green: Here's the kit canopy dry-fitted: It looks to me like something out of "Alien" The cockpit is "somewhat" visible through the canopy. For me, this canopy is better than, or at least on a par with, the rather disappointing new Airfix canopy in terms of distortion, and it's a very good fit. Because I have the Falcon canopy set, I tried a comparison between: Kit canopy, dipped in Future: Falcon vac (not dipped): I'm not sure whether to take the plunge or not. Thanks for looking, Adrian
