Dave Fleming

Not my pic Bill. If you could include the Beleize tail art and shark mouth...........

I took the prices from Hannants current price list. Might be to do with the £/Euro exchange rate as well.

Did I ever point out to you the Dark Green/medium Sea Grey 20 Squadron one..........................?

Two seat Typhoon - £12.99 Single Seat (with better decals and weapons sprue) - £8.99 ????

I'm going to try some photo measuring later!

My thought was 'the T birds all had the brake chute, was theirs the 'original' tail piece?' Be interesting to find out.

Thanks Edgar, Now if someone can measure an F1/F4 that will complete the set. (Must get to Dumfries one day).

And Tornados have just started using the Litening pod

Beware American references as well, the phrase 'rubbing alcohol' can refer to what we call Surgical Spirits, or to iso-propanol, or to combinations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing_alcohol

Though a thread for all those useful online databases would be a good idea! First off, probably the most well known: http://www.airliners.net/search/ also http://www.jetphotos.net/

The GR7s are easy because they tail numbers are unique (14A is ZD347) - I'll need to dig out the other pics to check the SHARS

I should have been more clear. The AIM-120 capability would have been stripped out them, as would have Blue Vixen - they would have been supplied to the Indians as training airframes. The Indians weren't interested in that. http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2605

it's NOT Azure Blue, it's not even a BS381C colour. The reference is upstairs at present, but the blue colour used on the underside of Hunters was to an ICI spec. It may have been close to Azure blue, it may have looked like Azure Blue, but to call it Azure Blue is wrong.

Haven't bought it - not my scale - but had a look at one. That said, some of the recent MPM stuff has been very nice.

One drawback - completely fake panel lines. Now we can argue the benefits/disadvantages of engraved panel lines for washes etc, but the Fulmar kit had panel lines where there is NOT a panel junction on the real aircraft. MPM have depicted by engraved lines what on the real aircraft arerows of rivets acros a solid sheet of metal.

All of these things are covered b y a series of Defence Standards. I have a copy somewhere, will have a look, but IIRC the colours allowed are White, Light Aircraft Grey or Dark Sea Grey

Indians didn't want them, so they will all be sold off for scrap/museums/ebay etc One is being restored to flying condition in the US by an ex-USMC test pilot, I have the link to their website somewhere

The 'crossmarking' between 3 Sqn GR7s and the SHARs was fairly short lived and little publicised

Do you know what time period/system you want to portray? They varied over time

probably the MOD - the ETPS has taken a Hunter T bird on lease.

QRA birds would be fully armed - 4 x AIM9, 2x or 4x Sparrow or Skyflash (The J used the former longer than regu;lar RAF F4s) and either a centre pod of the SUU-23 gun pod) One point worth mentioning is that when not on QRA, the Js rarely carried the wing tanks

Yep, I would agree with that. Timescale would appear to be about 1947/48. Just to throw a cat amongst the pigeons, photos of 17 Squadron's mk XIVs in Japan in the Lucas book on post-war RAF Fighters Overseas show HIGH BACKED mk XIVs fitted with the enlarged rudder. Interestingly, these appear to be a single colour - perhaps confirming them as a recent retro-fit. One thing I've never seen is how much wider this later rudder should be. (Post to trailing edge)

I looked into this one a few years back, and it's one area that 'The Bible' is incomplete on. They mention testing of the enlarged rudder on the XIV/XVIII but not it's introduction. I beleive they were retrofitted to some XIVes - I'll dig out a picture of a 602 Squadron one along side some mk 21s where you can clearly see the larger 'horn' (oo-err missus)

And had already had a life as a 1/24th GR7 before being converted for a second time.

Was the same not also true of most low backed XIVs and also mk 18s? I'm sure that's what John Adams said