Chatting to the Newfie friend of a friend , he mentioned that his grandfather had been involved with the building of the Bolingbroke 111. I understand that this was a Canadian Blenheim on floats or skis as well as a wheeled option. Only one (serial 717) was built.
I'll add it to my list and do a bit of research on the subject.
I think Robert in Canada, kitnut617 on here, is building that as he showed a pic of its floats here only the other week.
I found a small drawing for the kind of retractable skis that were used on Blenheims in Finland:
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilmasotakoulunkilta.fi%2FIlmaSK%2Filmaskmma.nsf%2Fsivut%2FCDE911C58CA15F7CC225740800279449%2FBody%2F0.31C6%3FOpenElement%26amp%3BFieldElemFormat%3Djpg&hash=c990facb59a797dc6cf9ca2f0e1384a126faaa77)
http://www.ilmasotakoulunkilta.fi/IlmaSK/ilmaskmma.nsf/sp?open&cid=Content79449
I understood that some old skis may still be in storage.
Oh, and there's some models and real photos showing fixed and faired skis on Blenheims:
Google search (https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Afi%3Aofficial&channel=sb&biw=1440&bih=752&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Blenheim+skis&oq=Blenheim+skis&gs_l=img.3...41025.41793.0.42157.4.4.0.0.0.0.98.323.4.4.0....0...1c.1.51.img..1.3.245.DyMpN8H0Qak)
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 02, 2014, 12:14:37 PM
I think Robert in Canada, kitnut617 on here, is building that as he showed a pic of its floats here only the other week.
I've started one, although it was packed away for my house move ----- which was seven years ago :banghead: :banghead: haven't seen it since then, it's somewhere in the stash :banghead: :banghead:
some pics here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,38206.msg643605/highlight,bolingbroke.html#msg643605