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Paula & Dan · Last edited by Paula & Dan on Tue 16 Sep 2008 07:37 am; edited 1 time in total

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dancho · Posted: Tue 02 Sep 2008 13:33 pm Post subject:

I'm not going to be the first off the block on this build. Some other things are taking up my time right now--but I'm planning on being a "later bloomer!" So I apologize to all my fans who waited so patiently and to my friends in the news media.

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cusack77 · Posted: Thu 04 Sep 2008 04:43 am Post subject:

I'll be watching this one eagerly. I had a great Uncle who flew "the widowmaker" in WWII. He brought it home one time with an entire engine shot away. Beautiful airplane.

dancho · Posted: Mon 08 Sep 2008 23:34 pm Post subject:

I'm just beginning to feel some inspiration--finally. It seems that the NAVY flew some of these Marauders and they called them JM-1's. Interesting. They were either bare metal or all BRIGHT YELLOW!

Now that's something I could sink my teeth into.
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Paula & Dan · Posted: Tue 09 Sep 2008 12:07 pm Post subject:

Oooh! Yellow! Excellent!

Dan
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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Tue 09 Sep 2008 16:33 pm Post subject:

Yellow sounds cool!

For what it's worth, all the best

dancho · Posted: Fri 12 Sep 2008 20:58 pm Post subject:

I've been studying the Marauder group build (Richard M's and DaveCov's builds in particular) and I'm learning a lot. I've been thinking about how to approach this and now I'm leaning away from the Navy JM-1, because I have an old Revell kit that is so funky it would make a nice JM-1 as way to salvage it.

The Airfix kit is old but good. I'm still considering what to do with it. I have a Superscale sheet with three good-looking choices--Yo Yo Champ, Hangover Hut and Piccadilly Lilly. There's also the Navy JM-1, with decals from the laser printer. Another big question is whether I want to build it with the landing gear up so that it can hang from the ceiling or fit on the stand.

Finally--invasion stripes or not? I don't have references for Hangover Hut or Yo Yo Champ that show the stripes--but I think I can just assume that they had "the usual" stripes. Maybe.

Decisions, decisions.

These groups builds tend to go on forever from my point of view (I tend to build models in a big hurry) so I feel like I have some time to decide.
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dancho · Posted: Mon 15 Sep 2008 21:07 pm Post subject:

After a couple of weeks of trying to love that Marauder I'm giving up. I just can't find anything interesting in the cigar-shaped beastie at the moment.

So I'd like to do a Blenheim IV instead.

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dancho · Posted: Tue 16 Sep 2008 20:18 pm Post subject:

The Blenheim was molded during those wonderful Heller years--in France. I've been bending the warped parts back into shape. Weird!
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ColinM · Posted: Tue 16 Sep 2008 21:13 pm Post subject:

Hi dancho

I'm doing one of those. The fit on mine hasn't been too bad at all, apart from the cockpit canopy.

Which colour scheme are you doing? Mine will be Free French.

Colin

dancho · Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 02:02 am Post subject:

French for me, as well. The kit comes with what looks like pretty good decals. We'll see. I'm going to do a test on the RAF letters and see if they break up, silver, scream loudly and run under the table (indicating that they are not decals, but the space alien from "The Thing") or what.
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dancho · Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 17:22 pm Post subject:

I've been looking at a lot of images of Blenheims. I have a good selection of RAF codes and I'm thinking about doing something other than the French machine--but I'm wondering about that strange turret under the chin. In some images it looks like it should be clear--but the kit provides something else. It's not clear.

I should point out that I've never built this kit before. It's new and exotic to me, just like the Blenheim. I've built several Marauders over the years and it's become a bit "old hat" but the Blenheim is brand new to me.
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peebeep · Guest

Some Blenheims were fitted with a single fixed rearward firing 'scare' mg encapsulated in the clear blister. Others had the 'solid' FN 54A turret fitted with twin mg's. AFAIK this turret only allowed the guns to elevate to a degree.

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Ratch · Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 17:58 pm Post subject:

IIRC the options in the Airfix kit are for a British fighter (with the forward firing, four-gun under-chin pod, and French bomber variant with a smaller, rearward firing gun pod

As far as I'm aware, the RAF didn't use the Mk IV as a bomber, but that may just be my ignorance

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Ratch · Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 18:23 pm Post subject:

Cheers Paul, you learn something new every day

I'd always presumed the RAF ones were earlier marks in the Battle of France

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dancho · Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 19:15 pm Post subject:

Now there's a coincidence. I am seriously considering painting mine to match Hughie Edwards' Blenheim. This would give me a very somber and conventional RAF scheme from 1941.
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Ratch · Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 20:10 pm Post subject: