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  1. Some time ago I was idly wondering about this aeroplane as I had been making Neville Duke's fave Spitfire, the Mark VIII he left over the lake near Rome. I would not go as far as to say I was a friend of Neville's, but we were on first name terms and I had some interesting chats with him, not least the 'Flying Visit' interview in Aeroplane Monthly that he initially refused to do, due to his modesty. He told me that after leaving JG241 he felt a little sad as 'I was rather fond of that one'. I like to make models that have some relevance to people I have met, places I have been, aircraft I have worked on and so the Hunter seemed to be a nice change from World War One kits linked to the Memorial Flight in France, and things that are local, such as Harold Balfour's Sopwith Pup from the School of Special Flying, where my grandfather claimed to have met Ball and Mannock and, more importantly and, to be honest, believably, the syllabus for flying training that led to my first solo (32 years ago today, as I write this and at abut this time) and subsequent licence was developed at Gosport. Having mentioned on the Post War discussion pages that I might think about this I was cordially invited to visit Tangmere museum and inspect WB188 for myself courtesy of John Wright, who was an excellent host. I have a few questions afterwards and my old friend Damien Burke came up with some more pictures which were a great help. Incidentally, having met a lot of real heroes and some so-called heroes I can honestly say that Neville Duke was the most gentlemanly, modest and amusing man I have met. Since I took this for Aeroplane many years ago, we might as well put it up. Shorty after this photo was taken he said to me 'you know I shouldn't't say this, bu I thoroughly;y enjoyed the war. Anyway, that aside I do not need to point out that this was the Hunter prototype, upgraded with an afterburning engine. Of whoops. I did. WB188 now resides at Tangmere and is not as it was for the record flight. The engine is next to it and there have been airbrakes added to the sides which were NOT there at the time of the record flight. (Plus it would have been V. difficult to fly it with the engine on a stand) The air nrakes are shown on some drawings of the Hunter in record breaking mode, but the photographs are clear. They were added later. There are some line drawings that show the full size canopy too. Whoops In sheer modelling terms it is no great deal. With my fat chemotherapy fingers, and the wonderful Mrs Hiscock thinking small models are a waste of time, it was always going to be 1/32. At this point in these things I understand it is customary to show the box and all the bits on the sprues. Now, you know what a box looks like and with most of you having real danger of your houses collapsing under the weight of 'your stash (that meant something different when I was younger, oh for the rock and roll years), you've probably seen a kit in the box. right? Ok, so we move on, I bought a Revell F6 from a jolly nice man on Ebay. I say this as it is possible I forgot to give him a good review. If I did, I am sorry, it was all there except for some small part that was NOT your fault and it was packed and sent properly and you get a big thumbs up from me. So, Hunter F6 to F2.5............ OK, 3. WIngs: Leading edge slots deleted. Pretty straightforward really. Afterburner. Shorter outer pipe with much confusion of parts inside, but with my pics and Damiens well bodgeable. Cockpit. The rear bulkhead of the cockpit is level with the back of the seat. ON standard Hunters like the F5, it is moved back to give better rearwards view There is a clear gap between the back of the seat and the bulkhead. This don't happen on the F3. Not only is the back oft he seat the back of the cockpit, but the canopy is shorter and, just to make things difficult, is not cut on one line. Incidentally, at the time of the record breaking this was not painted. The spine needs to be extended to the front of the seat rail. The nose is also pointed. This is, after all, what filler was invented for , The canopy was also extended forwards but the aeroplane is as standard in the museum. I'll worry about that when I have to think about making it. Lastly, there is an intake under the fuselage.. Most of this is pretty straightforward. There are other grilles and holes and intakes, but I am not going to get too upset about these. So, the red wine is kicking in, the typing fingers have had enough, some more soon.
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