Hi,
Completing posts of my French archive shelf - Bloch MB 200. Well - have to tell this. She was ugly. She was perhaps even more than ugly... But the bombers from early 1930 all were ugly - Dornier Do Y, Boulton Paul Sidestrand, HP Heyefors, etc.. - they all looks very strange today.
The model was scratch converted from Kovozavody Prostejov kit of licence-build in Czecholovakia Bloch 200, named there Avia MB 200 (or Aero MB 200, since small amount was also produced by Aero, main production was in Avia). The main difference between original Bloch and licence one Avia MB 200 is no nose - Avia has just a sloped nose, whereas original Bloch MB 200 has a step nose - initially flat, then sloped. There are some differences in engines as well. I was tying to catch all differeces and made them properly.
Here are drawings for Aero MB 200
http://www.cs-letectvi.cz/letadla/aero-mb-200
And here for MB 200
http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/bloch200_3v.jpg
My Bloch 200 is in markings of Vichy AF in Syria, unknown (at least for me) unit, about 1940-42. She was used for transport purposes, and due to general regulation with Germans she had removed all MG from turrets.
I made this model some 10 years ago.
Comments welcome and I hope you will like her despite her ugly design
cheers
Jerzy-Wojtek
Here she is: