Have just managed to order a 2nd hand copy of the mushroom book from Ebay Germany, think I got slaughtered on the xchange rate though, ouch.

Can’t remember which site I found the BPD 4 views on, might have been a russian site, I googled ‘boulton paul defiant plans’ on google images and the same two sets of images come up in several places, the better ones seem to be from your mushroom book as they look exactly like the ones on page 16 and 33 of the pdf ‘taster’ on the mushroom website.

I will definately get in touch with Mark, although think I’ll wait for his book to arrive so I can do some homework beforehand.

The lambert drawings are quite simplified (and without the clamshell doors)but they are at least orthographic which makes them easier to get basic proportions right, whereas every other drawing I’ve seen has been vaguely isometric and the bit you really want to see is always hidden. Also the first decent side and top view drawings I’ve seen of the brownings, much easier to model from than dark photographs of matte black metal which is all I could previously find.

What publication is the air ministry diagram of the turret in? Is it the 1/48th scale plans set 1 or are they just the same pix as in 6117?

Ian, I had intially tried to get the mushroom book but found it was out of print, then decided that must of the drawings in it were already circulating online so decided it was less of a priority. I’m still trying to get a copy second hand for the good colour profiles and background info though.

Hi John, I checked the book/magazine list at the BP association website and have been been going through ebay etc trying to locate various copies of the more usueful looking publications with mixed success. I have managed to buy a copy of Scale Aviation Modeller Internation vol 3 issue 1 which I’m hoping is the right one, although it hasn’t arrived yet. I was hoping to source enough reference without having to pester the heritage museum – to be honest I wasn’t sure of the best way to approach them. At the moment this project is only a personal one and I’ll have to find the time between commission deadlines to fit it in, there is a chance it’ll come to nothing so didn’t want anyone to go out of their way and think me a time waster.