CzarPeppers Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Currently working on the 1/72 Airfix kit of the aircraft (doing the night fighter variant), but I've been having a hard time finding good cockpit photos of this aircraft. Most of the ones I have found are just mis-labeled photos of Spitfire or Hurricane cockpits. I suppose it being hard to find such things is understandable considering the aircraft's obscurity and being more or less a complete failure, other than its early success during the Battle of France and Dunkirk before the Germans wised up to the gunner. It doesn't need to be colour, I'm pretty sure I know what the colours are (although if you know feel free to tell me just in case I'm wrong). I mainly just want a reference for adding some more scratch built detail, back in the gunner's position in particular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Holden Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 The best source of that info is in the excellent MMP book on the Defiant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq3xGLeH1LQ Not sure of the current availabliity, though..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Hi See your Pm with some info on wartime photo source cheers jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larumivi1951 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Hera are some cockpit photo: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CzarPeppers Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Thanks guys, these will be very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 posted in this thread http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235035939-airfix-148-defiant-extras/&tab=comments#comment-2992793 the images posted by @larumivi1951 are from the pilots notes, and so there should be the port side of the cockpit in them as well. the MMP book is OOP unfortunately. HTH HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CzarPeppers Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 5 hours ago, Troy Smith said: posted in this thread http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235035939-airfix-148-defiant-extras/&tab=comments#comment-2992793 the images posted by @larumivi1951 are from the pilots notes, and so there should be the port side of the cockpit in them as well. the MMP book is OOP unfortunately. HTH HTH Checked out your thread, nice work so far. The Airfix 1/48 version of the Defiant looks pretty good too, Eduard photo etch I assume? I was going to get the 1/48, but I wanted to do the night fighter version and it didn't come with the markings for such. I could have gotten after market, but ah well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahunaminor Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Airfix have released a NF marking scheme in their latest release of the kit. See here : https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/aircraft/military-aircraft/boulton-paul-defiant-nf-1-1-48.html Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnl42 Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Kahunaminor said: Airfix have released a NF marking scheme in their latest release of the kit. I've got AM markings for the 1st kit so I can do Mk.I N3437 EW-K 307(Polish Night Fighter) Sqn RAF Jurby IOM 1941. I see on the Airfix website there are 113 parts in the 1st kit and 158 in the 2nd. While Airfix posted the instructions for the 1st kit, they didn't (yet) for the 2nd. Hobbysearch (http://www.1999.co.jp) doesn't have anything either. What are the differences in parts? Edited April 7, 2018 by dnl42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 There's also this John 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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