Bristol Bunyip

[tigercat]

Due to Australias fledgling aircraft industry the Bristol Bunyip was designed to be multi functional it could fufil the roles of  ground attack /anti  shipping / medium bomber and transport/ casevac

[tigercat]

I'm not sure what 1:48 20 mm cannons would scale to in 1:72  40mm perhaps if so shes equipped with 4 x 40 mm cannon

[nebnoswal]

Nice.

any room for a belly turret?

[tigercat]

maybe a barbette she is vulnerable from below.

[MilitaryAircraft101]

A scale-o-rama twin engine skyraider 
Bang on 30mm cannons in 72nd if my Maths serves me well

[rickshaw]

Funnily enough, I've been thinking about something similar for the Skyraider.  Looking good there!   

[raafif]

Looks too French to me -- will it have yellow & red stripes ?

I know that it was a German (with experience at Nakajima in Japan) who designed the Boomerang so maybe we had french immigrants too

[rickshaw]

The glass nose looks rather Russian to me.   Perhaps a refugee fleeing Stalin's purges from Ilyushin?

[kerick]

Needs a C-47 style cargo door on the side and a ball turret!!  Are you going to replace the bombs with something WW2ish?

[tigercat]

 Funny you should say that as it reminds me of the Petlyakov Pe-2 in some way  although all the glazing is German  nose vie He111 and canopy salvaged from a Do 217 

[The Rat]

 

Once again, I'm late to the party. 'Bunyip' is what I was going to use.

Oh well, your project seems more than worthy of the name, keep at it while I wrack my tiny brain for something else. 

[tigercat]

I don't see why names can't be shared. Especially as they'll run out over the course of a year otherwise plus some of the Aussie fauna doesn't lend itself to aircraft

the Supermarine Box Jellyfish or the Fairey Funnelweb spider  don't trip of fthe tongue.

[MilitaryAircraft101]

RAAF designation for P-63: Bell King Brown Taipan Mk.III... It's so crazy... It might just work

[rickshaw]

There are many uniquely Australian names - animals, birds, insects, Aboriginal.  Instead of "Bunyip" call it a "Yowie" (A "Yowie" is a creature similar to the Yeti or "Big Foot" in Aboriginal folklore).   "King Cobra" - "Taipan" - http://This website should give you plenty of ideas and its only the venomous Snakes downunder!  

[The Rat]

I might go with 'Wombat', as this thing could be a bit of an earth-mover. It's actually something I started on a few years ago and haven't gotten very far with, a Bolton Paul Defiant converted to a tank-buster and ground attack. No turret, cannon pods from a Hurricane IIC, Vokes filter from a Spitfire Vc.