Boulton Paul Defiant Vd

[Glenn Gilbertson]

When the UK reached an accomodation with Germany in 1939, her own industry was free to develop her existing aircraft. With a robust airframe and good handling, the Defiant was an obvious candidate for a single seat, ground attack aircraft - preferably with a damage-tolerant radial engine.. Westlands had spare production capacity and were close to Bristols. The Defiant V was developed with a Hercules engine: as the canopy line had to be raised to give the pilot an adequate view Westland adapted their Whirlwind cockpit to fit. With the Vickers 40mm canon a great tank buster and anti-shipping aircraft was created.
Boulton Paul Defiant Vd, 20sqn RAF Burma 1945:
(Airfix Defiant, home cast Hercules in scrapAirfix Beafighter cowling, scrap Aifix Whirlwind canopy & Hurricane cannon)








Looks surprisingly different!

[gooberliberation]

Single seat defiant? YES! Looks great in that paint too.

[jcf]

Reminds me of the Gloster F.5/34


and the Bristol Type 146.


Jon

[jcf]

BTW the Boulton-Paul P.96 series of projects, all based on an enlarged Defiant airframe, included a Centaurus powered variant, with and without a turret.

Jon

[Mossie]

Glenn, you've done a great job in creating one ugly aircraft!  I like that, it makes it very real as not everything was pretty-pretty like the Spitfire or Hornet.

   

[Maverick]

Nifty stuff Glenn, the SEAC cammies are just icing on the cake!

[The Rat]

YIKES! He's beating me to it!    Had one on the bench a while ago but got sidetracked with other things. It'll be getting the Vokes filter off a tropical Spit (I'm retaining the Merlin), cannon pods off a Hurricane (looks like you used the same), and whatever bombs I can scrounge up. North African scheme.

Yours is certainly a good job, hat's off!  

Why not send it in to ARC asap for Silly Week? Steve's said he needs more, time's getting close, it runs the first week of January.

[Brian da Basher]

Glenn, that's an absolute stunner! It looks so real I'm sure it will fool many so-called "experts".

Brian da Basher

[kitbasher]

Like it!

It'll be getting the Vokes filter off a tropical Spit (I'm retaining the Merlin), cannon pods off a Hurricane (looks like you used the same), and whatever bombs I can scrounge up. North African scheme.

And can't wait to see this one!!    

[lancer]

That is one seriously awsome kitbash! Damm fine job there Glenn, and she looks great in SEA colours.  

[Captain Canada]

Wow, Glenn....what a beauty !

In the paper cutout, it sure looks like a Caproni. Then the finished product looks very Japanese......also P-47ish ! May just be the paint, tho. Which I love....the thing is just beauty !

 

[McGreig]

Very convincing, especially in those colours, and surprising different from a standard Defiant - I'd certainly have had to look twice if I hadn't seen the build pictures