"Airfix Boulton-Paul Defiant" Topic
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| Brechtel198 | 15 Jun 2021 3:58 a.m. PST |
I just purchased the Airfix kit in 1:48 scale (which I consider the best scale for aircraft models) of the power-turreted fighter. It is an excellent kit, with enough detail to produce an excellent model. |
| Oddball | 15 Jun 2021 6:36 a.m. PST |
Are you going to paint it up as a shot down burning wreck for scatter terrain? That's how most of them ended up. Neat looking plane, but a death trap in combat. |
| Martin Rapier | 15 Jun 2021 8:38 a.m. PST |
It served very effectively as a night fighter until 1942 as it was large enough to fit an interceptor radar set. It wasn't a brilliant day fighter though:) |
| Garand | 15 Jun 2021 12:07 p.m. PST |
I wonder if the Defiant could have taken some bombs or rockets, & if it would have worked as an attack aircraft. Seemed a more logical role for it… Damon. |
| emckinney | 15 Jun 2021 12:26 p.m. PST |
"I wonder if the Defiant could have taken some bombs or rockets, & if it would have worked as an attack aircraft. Seemed a more logical role for it…" The weight of the turret didn't make it terribly suitable as an attack aircraft. |
 20thmaine  | 15 Jun 2021 5:29 p.m. PST |
There were alternative concepts which saw it having some wing mounted forward firing MGs as well. Trade off was to lose a lot of fuel capacity/range. |
| khanscom | 15 Jun 2021 7:35 p.m. PST |
Without the turret it might have been a little more capable than the Fairey Battle-- not saying much. |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 16 Jun 2021 8:37 a.m. PST |
A single-seater version was discussed. It would have had 12 x .303 machine guns or 4 x 20mm cannon, and would have been about as fast as a Spitfire but less manoeuvrable. I once saw a reference to a day bomber version which had no turret but did have a rear-facing gunner with a machine gun, I'm not sure if ideas an ‘invasion' emergency design intended to use Defiant fuselages that had not yet been fitted with turrets. |
| Brechtel198 | 13 Aug 2021 4:04 a.m. PST |
At the urging of my son, I'm going to paint it as a night fighter. |
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