Defiant wing tip lights

[Seawinder]

I'd be interested in knowing if they were colored bulbs with clear lens fairings or clear bulbs with tinted lens fairings.

 

Thanks!

Pip

[Work In Progress]

The sole survivor has clear covers over coloured bulbs.

If you're not aware of the forum walk-around section, look here

 

[Seawinder]

Thanks for the info and the link, WiP.

[neilh]

Hoping not to muddy the waters for you, but looking in "Camouflage and Markings" no 8, all the photo's are B&W, but the majority show clear lenses in any view where the background is light ( so assume light is travelling through a clear lens). Only exceptions are L7012, stated as 62nd production machine and N1535 which look to be very much as if they have coloured lenses.

[FZ6]

I did mine clear with coloured bulbs

[Seawinder]

Hi all. Thanks for the information. Sounds as though one could go either way, but I'll probably keep the lenses clear and drill for colored bulbs. A friend of mine in my local club just built one and said the fit of all the clear parts was amazingly good.

[neilh]

Bet they are a better fit than the ones in the Classic Airframes kit I finished last year ( there weren't any- had to make them). Having built the CA Defiant and the CA Meteor for IPMS Avons display at Telford last year, Airfix then released both as new kits - just my luck!

[Graham Boak]

Good man!  You don't fancy attempting a 1/72 Halifax by any chance?

[neilh]

Sorry Graham, too busy with a Monogram p-80 in 1/48th ( rescribe, fill , rescribe ) sure you get the picture. Maybe someone will then release one without the " dumbo ears" intakes that HobbyBoss produced!

Lined up behind that after a break maybe on something a little easier is an Italeri U2 also in 1/48th ( more sanding and scribing of an entire kit).