According to RAFM, 633 reformed on Blenheims after being badly chopped up in France on Battles, and flew them until converting onto Bostons in March 1942. As RAFM provides a number of touch points paralleling the history of 105 Squadron I decided to add one more and sent them to Malta at the same time as 105 and 107, for anti-shipping operations in support of Western Desert operations. That gave me the opportunity to model a desert scheme, as a number of aircraft sent to Malta went in such warpaint.
The kit was the Classic Airframes Blenheim IV with Barracuda replacement mainwheels, a CMK reinforced tailwheel (the kit part is weak as water) and a couple of Master 0.303 Browning barrels on CMK breeches for a twin-Browning rear turret. Main paints are Vallejo ModelAir Middle Stone, Dark Earth and Azure Blue applied from the tin to start and then thinned and lightened to try to achieve a slightly faded look on the upperworks. The serial is from a Blenheim IV production batch but is the second number in the blackout block immediately after the used sequence that includes a 105 Squadron Blenheim IV photographed in Malta.
Photos on the usual garden patio tile that will put my back out one of these days.
20200816 (10)_633_Squadron_Bristol_Blenheim_IV by John Dixon, on Flickr
20200816 (13)_633_Squadron_Bristol_Blenheim_IV by John Dixon, on Flickr
20200816 (15)_633_Squadron_Bristol_Blenheim_IV by John Dixon, on Flickr
20200816 (17)_633_Squadron_Bristol_Blenheim_IV by John Dixon, on Flickr