Old school Airfix Blenheim IV being progressed - loved it when I built one as a yoof, bloody awful kit by today's standards. Still, it was cheap.
So that's the Blenheim done (
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,44903.msg799752/topicseen.html#msg799752). Third one I've built and never again. The first time as a kid when stuff didn't matter, then 15 years ago in the middle of the GAFA whilst OHMS. Did that in the Free French colours, actually quite enjoyed the build and left it in country (there is some foreign field that is forever....). but this one. A combination of not really being in the mood, work getting on top of me a bit, I don't know what, but after the initial burst of building I went off the boil. Tried to work out what it was as the boxing was not different to the second effort. Then I realised: the clear parts were awful and the masking was tedious beyond belief, not helped by the parts breakdown and poor fit. Hey ho!
I swore never to make another Blenheim again, and then I was distracted by the recent Airfix Blenheim IV, which is unsurprisingly light years ahead of it's ancient forebear. I look forward to building that.
Anyway, numerous part builds that are slowly making there way towards completion and I'll press on with these. I do have a Cold War GB idea that'll be a newbuild but I do want to do it (if the measuring up makes it feasible). And the Blenheim's got me thinking about my approach to whiffery: I'm happy chopping cheap old kits (Revell Flitzers excepted) but maybe after the current ongoing projects are done I need to be more discriminating in what I buy to whif and make more use of better, mor recent kits (not saying more accurate kits, just better produced its).
