Defiant and MB5 Rapier F5

[The Wooksta!]

Two photos of two of my most recent completions - I hesitate to say builds as these have been on and mostly off for the best part of a decade or more!

Defiant single seat Tank buster.
Pegasus TT kit modified to be a single seater, 3D Vickers S guns and a resin armoured Hurricane radiator.  It was easier to recarve the closed Airfix Defiant doors than to cut new ones from plastic card.



Rapier F5
Basically, a Pegasus MB5 but re-engined with a RR Eagle.  Other tiny mods were some work in the cockpit, Magna vacform canopy, a fin fillet and drop tanks nicked from a Heller Tempest.  2TAF scheme and the eagle eyed may spot the significance of the markings.  The prop is the last Wyvern prop that John Adams had - the mould is now shot and he's not replacing it.



Photos: Rob Sullivan

[NARSES2]

Glad there here. Liked both of them at Huddersfield 

[PR19_Kit]

I like both of them Lee.

The Defiant looks really good with the S cannon and the re-engined MB5 looks REALLY mean. 

[kitbasher]

Great stuff, Lee.

The Defiant looks sharp.  For the BoB GB I'd thought of a turret Hurricane anternative to the Hotspur, turret and fuselage extension from a Defiant.  The remaining Defiant bits would be used for a single seater.  Never happened of course.

The MB5 - excellent.  Apart from the dorsal fin fillet exactly what I had in mind as per the recent PMs. 

[comrade harps]

The Defiant is so Hurricane, until you look closer. Wonderful. 

And the MR5: 

[PR19_Kit]

For the BoB GB I'd thought of a turret Hurricane anternative to the Hotspur, turret and fuselage extension from a Defiant.

I tried that Dave, and it's still '...in the formative stage....'

The main problem is that the Defiant's turret area is a LOT wider than the Hurricane's fuselage aft of the cockpit, and I couldn't figure out a way to fair one into the other without losing that lovely fabric effect on the Hurricane's rear fuselage.

I gave it the working title of 'Turricane'...... 

[KiwiZac]

I very much like them both! And the codes on the MB.5 made me smile.

[The Wooksta!]

]The MB5 - excellent.  Apart from the dorsal fin fillet exactly what I had in mind as per the recent PMs. 

I really had to add the fillet - MB aircraft nearly always had their fin area increased, so with the available engine power, I knew it'd need something extra, so a fillet it was.

Better get cracking on the Centaurus one...

[zenrat]

 

[Gondor]

]The MB5 - excellent.  Apart from the dorsal fin fillet exactly what I had in mind as per the recent PMs. 

I really had to add the fillet - MB aircraft nearly always had their fin area increased, so with the available engine power, I knew it'd need something extra, so a fillet it was.

Hope you don't mind if I pinch that for my M.B.5 build

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

I really had to add the fillet - MB aircraft nearly always had their fin area increased, so with the available engine power, I knew it'd need something extra, so a fillet it was.

My thought processes were exactly the same when I built the Monsoooooon Reno racer.

Odd that pretty much all the MB aircraft suffered from the same problem, you'd have thought they'd have learnt as they went on.

[dwomby]

Love that MB5%.  Also appreciated the choice of code letters!

David

[royabulgaf]

What did you use to represent the RR Eagle?

[Captain Canada]

Those are both gorgeous Lee ! Love the Tank Buster especially. Clickin' and savin' that idea ! The colours look perfect on them both as well. Nice one.