John R

There was a family resemblance but were completely different. The P1081 had a centifrugal engine so was fatter than the Hunter.

Don't beat yourself up for breaking off the pitot. We have all done it. It's a poor design point on an otherwise excellent model. John

One point about the 'ovality'. I created an oval with 1.0/0.8 ratio and superimposed it on the picture above comparing the head-on views and found that at the fuselage/windshield junction the top of the oval was a smaller radius than the junction so I adjusted the radius of my oval until it matched that of the junction and found that 1.0/0.9 gave a better match. I never realised that the canopy was too high. In my picture I saw that the canopy was higher on the model but assumed that it was due to a combination of perspective and not getting the model in the same attitude as the a/c. The thing that always got me about the Revell canopy was the thickness of the rear and the frame which meant that you could not get a smooth junction where the csnopy ended and the fuselage began

They didn't do that with the a/c did they?

PM sent John

Regarding the unequal anhedral I usually glue the wings to to the fuselage halves before glueing the fuselage halves together. That way, with the fuselage halves on the building board one behind the other longitudinally, you can line up the wings so that they have the same amont of anhedral but you are already past that point. John

I have found that when fitting the wing into the fuselage so that there is a snug fit I got too much anhedral compared with the a/c in the picture or the drawing in the SAM book about the Hunter. Whether it's the model or just me getting it wrong it's something to beware of, especially with the effort you are putting into it to get it right. In the Sam book the anhedral is about 2 degrees and this closely matches the a/c in the picture The picture also illustrates the difference bteween the model and a/c windscreens John

Only just seen this thread so this might be too late but ... My thread about the Hunter canopy also contains a comparison shot between the actual a/c and what happens on the Revell model if you simply glue the wings into the fuselage where they fit. John

It also helps if the pilots put the a/c in an attitude that gives a nice picture and it's not all 'Roar and Whoosh'. Give my compliments to Isabel. John

What is Isabels's surname? She put on a very good 'unMustang like' display at Old Warden last week and I would like to know the pilot's name. What I meant by 'unMusang like' is that that it was not all 'Roar and Whoosh' with the a/c spending most of its time in the vertical plane and never giving you a decent photographic shot. John

There are drawings of the 221 in Barrie Hygate's book and he gives the actual a/c as one of his references.

I thought that my original post would have indicated that it I had actually done it. Have seen the above yet? John

Perhaps they have been updated. After rearding your comment I started wondering about the possibility of cross-kitting an RF-84 wing with the Anigrand fuselage but after doing a bit of searching I found that my Anigrand model closely matches the drawings and photos that were available.

One thing that does irritate me about the Revell canopy is that ridge where the rear of the canopy meets the fuselage. I must see if I can do anything about it on my next Hunter

I haven't done any research into the rest of the kit's accuracy but, knowing Anigrand, I felt sure that the relative positions of the intakes would be the least of my problems. Thank you for pointing this out John