AIRFIX Bristol Blenheim IVF Classic

Very basic cockpit. 

Improve both fuselage sides with styrene strips. 

Not bad. 

Check fuselage and cockpit parts without glue. 

 

Bomber, pilot and gunner. First layers of paint. 

Finished  

Gunner 

Gunner and pilot 

Bomber, pilot and gunner in their positions. Finished cockpit. 

Propellers. I'm not satisfied with the paint, i'm going to repaint them. 

Engines 

Piece number 31 on both sides has a manufacturing defect. I have designed and 3D printed them with resin. 

Original pieces. 

New ones in resin 3D printer. 

Landing gear glued, wheel color are provisional. 

I have a small problem in the union of the transparent canopy of the cockpit with the fuselage, I have to do plastic surgery. It does not fit well and is lower than the area to be covered, leaving a step, and also the side windows that have a tear-shaped part, which have been previously glued to the fuselage, lack more frame. I think the solution is to add more frames to the entire area in plasticard. 

 

 

 

 

Surgery with poliestirene strips 

Adding more canopy frames with poliestirene strips. 

Adding more strips and sanded. 

Added new frames and painted in black, next paint with green zinc chromate Vallejo 71094 

Test fit better than the original situation  

Masking canopy 

Building underfuselage guns pod for British fighter version. 

Wings glued. Canopy adjusted (a lot of plasticard, putty and sanding) glued with Humbrol cristal clear. Next step thin putty between wings and fuselage.