Finnish Blenheim series drawings

[BushBrit66]

Hi I am aware of the six series of Finnish Blenheim's, along with the verbal discriminations of bomb bays etc. Are there any drawings out there that show the differences, or even a book. I seem to remember SBS did a book (not in English) perhaps that has something. 

 

Cheers in advance

 

Sean

 

[Vesa Jussila]

I think most accurate drawings were in Suomenilmailuhistoriallinen lehti. Magazine published in Finland. Maybe some of members from Finland have access to those. My copies were lost in move.

[Kari Lumppio]

Hello!

 

Suomen ilmailuhistoriallinen lehti still has static homepage:

https://sites.google.com/view/ilmailuhistoriallinenlehti/info

 

If you click "Info" on the page upper edge there is e-mail to the magazine.

As far as I know most of the magazine issues are still available. Explain what you are looking for and Pentti may be able to help. Certainly there has been drawings for the Finnish Blenheim versions.

Here is pdf-list of all drawings published in SIL-magazine (from the homesite):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nSY366tKydDxePlmaQJIFX7DyMX7k6Nu/view

 

At moment I don't rememer any "In action" -type profile collection of Finnish Blenheims. But I guarantee that does not mean anything....

 

Cheers,

Kari

[BushBrit66]

Thanks for this. I tried the email and it bounced back. It was the inscale one.

 

S

[Vesa Jussila]

This discussion was some months ago: Pentti Manninen

 

Did you use gmail? If this is not working, I can ask forum in Finland.

[BushBrit66]

Hi Vesa 

Thanks for this. I have now tried GMail 

 

Cheers 

Sean

 

 

 

[BushBrit66]

Nope it bounced back. Anything you could find for me would be appreciated.

 

Regards 

Sean

[Vesa Jussila]

I sent a question to forum, let see if there is answer.

[BushBrit66]

Thanks Vesa, that's very kind. I live a few hundred yards where the initial batch was built in Filton, so  I would very much to get my models as accurate as I am able.

 

Cheers 

Sean

 

[Dmitriy1967]

You've probably already seen it, but maybe it will help.

 

Link to the photo of the Finnish Blenheim's

 

Aviation Museum in Finland

Edited November 9, 2022 by Dmitriy1967

[dogsbody]

Can't open the first link as it goes to a Captcha page the is all in Cyrillic, which I cannot read.

 

 

 

Chris

[Dmitriy1967]

1 hour ago, dogsbody said:

Can't open the first link as it goes to a Captcha page the is all in Cyrillic, which I cannot read.

There's something like this, but in a Russian search engine. There are slightly fewer photos in Google for the same request.

 

sa-kuva Blenheim

[Vesa Jussila]

@BushBrit66 I managed to send email to Manninen and it didn't bounce back. Look PM there is email I used.

[Walter Lindekens]

Best Blenheim drawings I've come accross so far are those produced in 2001 by Martin Lébl for I believe a Czech magazine and he covered the Finnish versions.   I briefly corresponded with Mr Lébl some time ago and he mentioned he'd obtained all of his reference material from Finland...

 

If you'd care to PM me your e-mail address I'll be happy to send you copies of the scans I have. 

 

Cheers,

 

Walter 

Edited November 12, 2022 by Walter Lindekens
correction

[BushBrit66]

Thanks Walter. PM sent Thank you so much

[BushBrit66]

Thanks guys. All details provided. 

 

Regards 

Seaa

[europapete]

This Forum is so awesome! Well done everyone 👍

[Tweener]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:23 AM, Walter Lindekens said:

Best Blenheim drawings I've come accross so far are those produced in 2001 by Martin Lébl for I believe a Czech magazine and he covered the Finnish versions.   I briefly corresponded with Mr Lébl some time ago and he mentioned he'd obtained all of his reference material from Finland...

 

If you'd care to PM me your e-mail address I'll be happy to send you copies of the scans I have. 

 

Cheers,

 

Walter 

Might I be able to get some copies as well? I'm currently working on a Finnish Blenheim with another to follow soon.

[Walter Lindekens]

On 21/04/2023 at 02:01, Tweener said:

Might I be able to get some copies as well? I'm currently working on a Finnish Blenheim with another to follow soon.

 

Hi Tweener, 

 

Sure, PM me your e-mail address please and I will gladly send you those drawings.

 

Cheers,

 

Walter