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A boomerang whirls out, strikes, and whirls back home again. |
| (Model finished 2020) |
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Perhaps not the most common aircraft in the world. I started with a Matchbox Swordfish and a tail from a Matchbox He115. |
| I then added some floats of an unknown origin. I had do dig in my old LEGO box to build a jig for the floats. |
| Hopefully the plane is placed correctly on the floats now. |
| Inspiration for this build is from the cover of the 1940 issue of Biggles in the Baltic. |
| I thought that the planes looked very much like Swordfish without the top wing. |
| I found a Matchbox Swordfish without decals very cheap so I thought that I would have some fun building this. |
| On the book cover, the planes looks very dark underneath and with a week after the outbreak of war, the time frame is right for the black-and-white underside, even if the black is on the wrong side of the plane on the book cover. |
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I was told that the last Blackburn built Swordfish was NS204. Then there is a gap in the serial registrations until NS487. I found some decals that I could mix for a serial in that gap. |
| I also found a window of some kind and added some wires to the floats. |
| Stockholm September 16, 2016 |  |
Updated December 08, 2020 |
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