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Hi Geoff, sorry for delay in replying I've been offline for a while due to being rewired/redecorated so only just got your message. No updates right now as I have had to put the project on the back burner in favour of more urgent paying jobs - however it is not forgotten, there is still a lot...

Cheers Vengaza. I have checked the BP assoc out already - v nice full size replica - will come in handy when I need to work out where all the rivetting patterns go. The turret is not finished/on hold until the copy of the air ministry manual arrives from Hendon. I got as far as I could with...

Cheers mate will drop him a line. The plane model is pretty rough at the moment, still a bit slow when it comes to aircraft modelling - this is only really the second proper aircraft model I've attempted, already progress is faster than my first model so it's obviously one of those things you...

WIP renders of the turret from my Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project. All models created in Cinema 4D 10.5

Work In Progress renders

WIP renders of the turret from my Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project. All models created in Cinema 4D 10.5

WIP renders of the turret from my Boulton Paul Defiant modelling project. All models created in Cinema 4D 10.5

I'm in the middle of making my 3d model of the Defiant and find myself a bit stuck when it comes to the fairing between the turret and the canopy/cockpit. See illo below. Does anyone have any pix of what the interior of this area looks like and the layout/workings of the hydraulic setup...

Thanks for the support guys and the technical insight which, as ever, is invaluable. Stuck with my brother's screaming kids for the next 24 (I mean blessed by an unexpected bounty at this time of Christmas cheer :rolleyes: ) so won't be able to get much work done for a while. cheers alex

Cheers Terry, very interesting that you say it would probably be red - was hoping for red or yellow as either of these colours will help draw the eye into the composition. Do you think it would be stencilled or just painted freehand? Have found another pic of same type A turret on a stand -...

Cheers guys, think I'll let the turret stew for a bit and work on the aircrew for a change. then come back to this hopefully with a new perspective.

As promised here are some progress renders of the turret model so far, still some work to do with texturing etc. Some things may be slightly out of proportion due to having no comprehensive scale reference to work from so a lot of things were just done by eye, there are a few things that I just...

My Boulton Paul turret modelling project is slowly starting to come together - will post pix in the next fews days once I iron out a few things. In the meantime I wonder if anyone would care to hazard a guess as to what the writing on the side of the turret in the attached photo says? Its a...

Thanks for those Graeme, the ammunition feed pic is particularly informative although its for the type E turret it does show the principle of what happens to the ammo much more clearly than I'd seen before, I had assumed this was how it worked but when you see it laid out like this it makes the...

Cheers Terry will do. alex