BP Defiant Mk.I 1/72 MPM

[Redboost]

Hello,

this is the latest re-pop of the MPM's Defiant kit in Battle of Britain marking. The L7006 was flown, among the others, by the most succesfull Defiant crew ever, E.R.Thorn / F.J.Barker, scoring 12,33 victories.

The MPM kit is pretty good being made in galvanized tools; however, the transition parts to the pilot canopy are not accurate and the turret is slightly oversized. The gun barrels come from Quickboost.

Cheers

Libor

[upnorth]

Very nice work, as always, Libor.

[rowmk9]

beautiful work, I'm very impressed!

[Work In Progress]

Absolutely delightful.

[Honza]

Nice Defiant

[Paul A H]

Beautiful work as always Libor!

[Smiffy]

Cracking job.

Would have guessed it was 48th from the pics.

Lovely.

[Spitfire31]

Beautiful, meticulous work, with just the right hint of weathering. I'm impressed and humbled.

Best,

Joachim

[woody37]

Beautiful. Never built a Defiant, but this is taking me one step nearer. Thanks for some great inspiration.

[Mentalguru]

I have that kit- I see what you did there...

10/10

[CliffB]

Superb work

Cliff

[Obi-Jiff Kenobi]

Really nice bit of work.

Obi-Jiff

[AnonymousDFB1]

Lovely build

[crookedmouth]

Yet another 1/72 scale build that looks ten times better than any 1/48 kit I could manage. Damn your eyes sir.

[Diego Quijano]

Great little Defiant. The chipping is really accurate.

Congrats.

Q

[dogsbody]

Geez Louise, Libor, that's fantastic! I don't know what's the most impressive, your modeling skill or your photography skill.

It's hard to believe that's a 1/72 kit.

Chris

[Redboost]

Many thanks gents for nice comments!

Cheers

Libor

[Duncan B]

Lovely job, looks bigger than 1/72.

[Murdo]

Cracking job!

It's easy to see why they were confused with Hurricanes.

I'd love a 1/48 Defiant.

[clubsport911]

That is a stunning kit. - I'm extremely impressed and as mentioned, the weathering looks perfect.

FYI, I'm in the very privelidged position of working for the company that has just acquired the old GE (Ex Smiths, and ex Boulton Paul) factory in Wolverhampton. We've had it just over a year now and the factory has all the trademarks of an old facility where you can sense history in the making

Interestingly in the factory grounds (although I have yet to visit it) is the Boulton Paul Museum. Loads of people in the company are historians of "matters Boulton Paul" and when I go to make my BPD, I'm hoping to gain access to as much data as I can from the kind folks that now work for us.

Brilliant skills and excellent people.

Libor - coming to the model, is the MPM kit good to make from the box or does it need lots of work and add ons ?

rgds

Steve

Edited November 15, 2010 by clubsport911

[Redboost]

Thanks for the info Steve, very interesting! Perhaps I will add it to my "must visit" lisit for my next UK stay; I suggest the museum is open for public? I'm also fortunate working in similar old buildings in a factory that was founded in 1804 and I think I quite understad that 'touch of history'. Our factory produced at some point in the past steam engines for German and Austro-Hungarian Kriegsmarine, unfortunately most of the unique documents in the archives were destroyed during WWII bombing.

Back the the Defiant, it goes together pretty quickly except the rear deck fairing that is too long and must be shorten to fit the turret; plus some typical filling and sanding here and there, but nothing tremendous. The only add-on are the resin 0.303 gun barrels.

Cheers

Libor

[Old VG 33]

Hi Libor

This is another very nice build and I love the paint job which is spot on for me.

Congratulations.

Patrick