1/72 Boulton Paul P94

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looks great

me too.
i have another corsair to do in those colours and plan on getting a Barracuda, firefly MkI at some point and should really do a Sea Hurricane and Seafire
already have 2 x Corsairs (1 x dark blue and 1 in cammo, same for Hellcats and have a wildcat in cammo but might get another for a dark blue scheme)
 
I have a Martlet but it's not a very good one so that might be replaced with the Arma kit. I have a spare Fulmar kit but that's planned to be bashed into the Fairey P4/34 light bomber.
 
Got the transfers in place, they're a mix of stuff from my spares box.

I used Ultimate model products strong decal solution and for all the good it did I might as well have used spit. I wanted the upper rondels to settle into the grooves I ended up cutting the decal and poking it down with a cocktail stick.

Another bottle of expensive snake oil joins the collection. I am beginning to think the only decal solution worth using is hot water

I fitted 3 cannons, only meant to fit 2 but one of them slid into the wing just as I was reaching for the superglue and disappeared . Tried to shake it out but no joy.

 
Great build and as an aircraft concept, that plane looks surprisingly plausible. Maybe if they clipped the wings a bit they might have had a decent fighter on their hands. Maybe Boulton-Paul should have gotten out of the turret business and built a few more of those. Had to be better than a Buffalo ...
 
Might cause balance issues but I wonder if they could have put extra fuel where the turret would be. The Defiant had a short range but if you added say 40% more fuel to that, you would almost certainly have a better naval fighter than a Fulmar.
 
Schweik said:
Might cause balance issues but I wonder if they could have put extra fuel where the turret would be. The Defiant had a short range but if you added say 40% more fuel to that, you would almost certainly have a better naval fighter than a Fulmar.
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The turret was at least 600 lbs which is about 90 imp gallons I doubt you could use all that spare weight for fuel but a tank under the pilots seat might work. The Defiant carried it's fuel in the wings exactly where I have put the guns. So the fuel has to go somewhere. Probably in reality the cockpit would have been moved back to allow for fuel forward.
 
fastmongrel said:
Unfortunately the cockpit interior is a resin tub unit there's no way for anything rattly to get into the cockpit.
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I have been having a think. I could cut a slot in the leading edge to try and remove the gun barrel and fill the slot with a transparent lense as a landing light.

Might balls up my paint job but the rattle every time I pick the model up is starting to get on my nerves.
 
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