1/32 Boulton Paul Defiant - new kit design?

[europapete]

Print and scale to order?

[scvrobeson]

Oh man, this is so incredibly cool. Really hope to see this come to fruition 

 

 

 

Matt 

[williamj]

I would definitely be down for one.

[Kagemusha]

28 minutes ago, williamj said:

I would definitely be down for one.

 

Me too.

[EvilCarrot]

Somebody already put it on Scalemates. I'd love one of these but the cost of importing from the UK will probably put this out of my price range... Still it's a great project! Will wait and see.

[Out2gtcha]

Having grand memories of my pops really loving the BPD and only having a balsa and tissue model to represent it in a large scale model.

IIRC,I think it may have been walnut scale or larger.......

In any event a new tool BPD is most welcome and this one may have to be a must have.

[Radders]

You have a good reputation Peter, and i'm sure this will be a sell out. 

 

I wish you all the best! Looks fantastic.. 

 

BTW.... when are you doing a 1/32nd P-61....

[airscale]

well thanks you all - that is really quite a reception

 

I will do everything I can to make it happen - rest assured

 

5 hours ago, JayW said:

-  What will you do to the LG struts to make them robust enough?  Is that not a problem at 1/32 as well as 1/18?

 

 

 

You got me there Jay, but I have a cunning plan from the professor of cunning at cunning university for that

 

2 hours ago, thierry laurent said:

Wow ! That turret is incredible!!! 👏

1/18th is impressive but this will ask ages to print parts. 1/32th would be probably more attractive and you can also consider 1/24th to go with the existing Spitfires, Hurricane, Mosquito and Typhoons.

 

 

Thanks Thierry - it is in 1/32 so that's the first problem solved

 

 

2 hours ago, europapete said:

Print and scale to order?

 

 

Interesting, that is of course possible and a 1/24 one would be.... well.... epic

 

back to the gear bays for me...

 

Peter

[Phil88]

It's a nice job,  i like to see it one day.

[Troy Molitor]

Oh my..  Pa, pa, pa, pa Please!

[petrov27]

oh wow yeah sign me up for one and already looks fantastic!

[Borsos]

Oh yes, finally! I really want one, too!

 

[Alex]

13 hours ago, airscale said:

 

 

Print time - All the parts for now are printed at the lowest, but fastest quality @ 60 micron layers, I usually print in 22 microns for my AM parts - but this speeds up the prints - even then, on 60 microns it takes about 9 hours to do the wing parts so each kit will take days to print at the proper resolution

 

 

 

Wow - that's an amazing and ambitious project.  The prototype is impressively advanced if you've only been working for a month!  Regarding print time (especially in light of the likely demand for this kit), I wonder if it wouldn't be better to complete the prototyping and 3D design on your personal printer and then find an commercial shop with higher-end equipment to produce the parts in volume at high resolution?  I'll bet you could get an Eduard or ResKit interested in collaborating on something like this.

[mozart]

I’ll be building a Defiant for sure, but I’m utterly undecided whether to go for the classic day fighter scheme during the brief halcyon days in early 1940:

 

 

 

…..the night fighter…..

 

….or even a target tug…..

 

 

More research will be needed, that’s a certainty.

 

 

Edited January 5, 2025 by mozart

[Derek B]

Awesome Peter!!! 😊

 

👍👍👍

 

Thank you.

 

Derek