Boulton-Paul P.97c (finished page 3)

[Tophe]

Today I have ordered a Unicraft resin kit 1/72 of Boulton-Paul "P.79b"
see http://www.unicraft.biz/on/bp79/bp79.htm
I have talked with Igor to know if the code is actually P.79 (I knew this one as P.97) and he confirmed there is a discrepancy between sources: P.79 or P.97.
Anyway I will what-if it further, into a little glider probably: P.97c

[Tophe]

there is a discrepancy between sources: P.79 or P.97.

I am not Historian at all but I can tell you the search about what the actual P.79 might have been.
One Russian site shows the "bombardirovshik" P.79 very big on 3-views and not twin-boom at all
http://alternathistory.com/proekt-srednego-bombardirovshhika-boulton-paul-p-79-velikobritaniya/
but the word alternathistory may mean this is a dream.
Then in English, the serious http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_boulton_paul_P79.html
says the P.79 was a bomber project that looks like a Douglas B-23 Dragon which was a DC-3 but with a B-17-like fuselage, so not twin-boom night fighter and Igor's kit seems actually the P.97. Anyway I will transform it into the absurd P.97c civilian glider.

[Tophe]

The Russian/alternate source is confirmed on the serious site Secret Projects:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/rotary-bomb-bay.4494/#post-107998

So it seems confirmed I will receive the P.97 from Unicraft.
But I may Photopaint a P.79Z, just for fun.

[Tophe]

I may Photopaint a P.79Z, just for fun.

Here she is:

[Tophe]

Update of the project (with even samller wings and V-tail+top):

[Tophe]

The Putnam book "Boulton-Paul aircraft since 1915" fully confirms my interpretation about P.97 vs P.79 (or this is the wrong source of the misunderstanding), what-if...?

[Tophe]

Modelling/medical update: I will have surgery again, for lungs now, and my wife required that I sand no more plastic/resin models, so the P.97c project will change somehow. I will have to think about the new way.

[Scotaidh]

Modelling/medical update: I will have surgery again, for lungs now, and my wife required that I sand no more plastic/resin models, so the P.97c project will change somehow. I will have to think about the new way.

Sorry to hear read you're under the weather ...   I think, though, your lady wife is right.  I've stayed away from resin kits because I already have asthma & mold allergies, and I don't want to take any chances.   

[PR19_Kit]

With those sorts of lung problems a good mask is an essential.

I've been asthmatic since I was 4yrs old and I've always used a mask when filing or sanding resin, sometimes for styrene too. And while spraying as well.

[Tophe]

Thanks for your support while my problem is not asthma but metastasis (coming from scapula before to lung now)...
But it is possible to build what-if differently without PSR, I will try.

[Tophe]

Here are 2 new versions of the P.97c model project:

The main problem for me (bad modeller, sorry) is that, this time, I will have to use the thermoformed canopy. With white glue?

[NARSES2]

I hope the surgery goes ok Tophe, and your lady wife is right. Listen to her 

[Tophe]

Thanks.
The kit arrived today:

[NARSES2]

That's quite a nice looking machine 

[Tophe]

Thanks (to have the same taste as me, not only the same first name, Chris...)

Here are the parts I plan to use:

(or I may use the propellers and spinners for a push-pull layout, I will see)