The Huntsman shares a common tail
and wings but the fuselage is all new. For this I will be using the Airfix
Hawker Hunter FGA.9 kit and a Spot-On Designs Resins (available from the 'What
If' modellers forum
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/forum/)
P.1128 Huntsman fuselage. First job was to build the wings as normal but not to
join them to the Hunter fuselage. While these are drying, glue the Hunter
fuselage halves together. Once dry take a scalpel to the tail where it meets the
fuselage.
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Once the tail is
removed, it needs to be sanded and cut to fit in the recess at the rear of the
fuselage. This needs to be superglued into place as normal liquid poly won't
bond the two parts together. The same then goes for the wings. Did a bit of
reshape work to the dogtooth and wingtips. Decided at this point not to have the
pylon ejectors on the wings. At this point most of the building had been done,
so I began to paint it using Hannants Xtracrylics and Revell Aqua Color paints.
Then I added the undercarriage and doors. The windows were then filled
with Microscale Kristal Klear. Once this had gone off it was time to add the
decals. The decals came from the Xtradecal Hunter F9/FR10 decal sheet and the
Modeldecal White Letter, Numerals and Titles sheet.
It is finished in
the markings of 8/43 Sqn, RAF Khormaksar Station Flight, RAF Khormaksar, Aden
February 1972 where it served as the Station Commanders personal transport.
Chris
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