1 48th Airfix Boulton Paul Defiant

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Hello and welcome aboard 

Welcome to the Forums! I may be ill-informed, but I think most model producers manufacture kits in "production runs." They put out a certain number of the same kits, then move on to others. Any specific kit is only available until the quantities produced run out; then we all have to wait until they do another production run of that kit, and that may take some time--although I have no idea how long. Sometimes you can find "out-of-production" kits online, at Amazon or eBay, if someone has anything left in stock.

Thanks for the info. They were only availible from Airfix for approx. two weeks. On Ebay they were asking twice the price. Lesson learned, next time I will pre-order.

Sorry, my bad.

Hi DasBeav

You don't say where you are from, but it has been available in the UK for 6months from Airfix in 1/72 & 1/48th: http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/boulton-paul-defiant-day-fighter-1-48.html

You can try Ebay or your favourite on-line retailer.

Sorry about that. I'm from the U.S. (Just updated my bio)  Airfix USA? says they are sold out on the website. Nothing on Ebay from US. Amazon wants 3x the retail price. I guess I will just have to wait and pray they make more. Thanks for the link!

Try here.

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AX05128

Hannants is in the UK, but they are very good and very reliable.  I've purchased from them a lot of times over the last five or six years.  It looks like they have more than ten of them in stock now.

Thanks for the link....checking into it right now.

DasBeav

I guess I will just have to wait and pray they make more.

 

 

If it's that popular, they'll probably make more.

Cdn Colin

 DasBeav

I guess I will just have to wait and pray they make more.

If it's that popular, they'll probably make more.

 

Yup, this was so popular in the UK, I even had to pay retail!

Beav, I'm in the US too and I don't think I've ever seen the 1/48 scale Defiant in any of the stores near me. I have however seen the 1/72 Defiant (I even bought one for my stash) as recently as late this summer. If all else fails, you can always find one in a smaller scale!