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  1. Here's my first COVID lockdown build 😷🤒. I have a peculiar affinity for the Whitley (perhaps I am a lumbering, oddly-shaped, relatively mediocre performer myself?) and was absolutely over the moon when Airfix brought out their kit a few years back - it knocks the Frog and Fly efforts out of the park and generally goes together very nicely with few fit problems. There is a bit of a step in the fuselage sides above the wing if you follow Airfix's complicated recommended assembly sequence - but as I discovered it is possible to construct the fuselage in its entirety before attaching to the wing/centre section, which makes it much easier to eliminate the step by clamping the sides as they dry (or inserting a spacer if you prefer). This is my attempt at representing my all-time favourite individual Whitley subject: T4131 EY-W of 78 Squadron, RAF based at Middleton St George in 1941. Aftermarket additions include the Eduard Zoom interior set (I know it's there...), resin 500lb bombs from CMK (I was feeling lazy), and the Xtradecals set. From the latter set I replaced the serials (the digit styles were not quite right), and the upperwing roundels, as I am led to believe that the supplied 75-inch variety are only correct for early Whitley Vs which came off the production line at Baginton with four-colour Type A1 roundels, which were then overpainted to Type B. I replaced with 84 inch roundels which better matches archive photos of later Whitleys. I am aware that T4131 had a non-standard proportion A1 type roundel on the fuselage (narrower yellow ring) - I would normally replicate this by overlaying different sizes of Type A and A1 but I couldn't think of how to do so while replicating the dulled-down grey centres, so I left it as is. I have literally just noticed that the real aircraft had the bomb tally in a continuous line not in groups of five bombs as Xtradecal would have it! Grrrrr.... I added a fair bit of internal scratchbuilding to the turrets, both to replicate extra details and to allow training and elevation of the guns. This is mostly because I am a 12-year old modeller trapped in a 30 year old modeller's body 🙃, but it turns out to have a valuable practical application - the Whitley fits inside my display cabinet with a gnat's hair to spare - but only with the rear turret trained sideways! I also added a few minor bits of external scratchbuilding which Airfix missed (two small vents/scoops on the port nacelle, a pole aerial under the rear fuselage and a vent on the spine aft of the DF loop acorn. Paint is Humbrol 33 from a rattlecan (although largely overpainted with Revell Aqua due to a varnish near-disaster), with an eye-balled mix for the leading edge de-icer paste (it's called "Kilfrost! How wonderful is that?!) I have attempted an artist's impression of the heavy exhaust staining seen on this machine but I have erred on the side of caution rather than overdo it. My thanks to @dogsbody for finding conclusive photographic evidence for black wheel bays and bomb bays, to @vildebeest for info on the roundel sizes, and @Rabbit Leader, @Graham Boak, @72modeler (among others) for entertaining discussion on the colour of Kilfrost here. Photos!
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