Here's one I rescued from the 'Shelf of Shame' whilst waiting for parts on the Dove to set.
It's the Valom mixed media, injection, P.E. and resin, kit which I bought on it's release in 2015 as I wanted to model one as seen in a photo at Doncaster Airport (not RAF Finningley but the original one at Belle Vue, all that remains of which is now the Air Museum). Further research showed the a/c belonged to 1680 Flight RAF which became 271 Squadron in May 1940. As well as Bombays it was equipped with Harrows, H.P. 42 Heracles and D.H. 91 Albatrosses. It was a photo and build of the latter plus a photo of a Bombay which led me to the yellow underside finish for my a/c.
Being a limited run kit there are no locating lugs to help with aligning the body etc. Internal detail is good in the cockpit but there is nothing in the body. The machine guns are somewhat fiddly to build and I've left the barrels off with it being used as a transport. The kit instructions would have you put the aerial masts and DF loop in the wrong place, all of which are provided as P.E. so the thin former were replaced by items from the spares box. The biggest error in the instructions is telling you to paint the gun turret frames. There aren't any, the Perspex was simply bolted together, luckily I hadn't fallen fully into this trap having only primed them so they were covered in Maskol before spraying the camouflague. The resin engines have to be worked on to get them to fit into the cowlings which is the reason I initially gave up and put the model on the shelf before having gained more experience in working with resin. My main mistake was painting the yellow about a scale foot too high up the body side.
The decals are good but fragile and the instructions tell you to put some of them near panel lines that aren't on the model (a la some Revell instructions).
