Ascoteer Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Oh my! Winston does rather seem to have the gimlet like steeley eyed 1000 yard stare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Oh my! Winston does rather seem to have the gimlet like steeley eyed 1000 yard stare! I think he looks a bit like his old man after a Scotch or two... Cheers, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascoteer Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Ah, that'll be the problem then. He needs to drink Irish Whiskey. I recommend Bushmills... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Watching the build with interest, built two of the kit myself recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalbert Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 How High is a Chinaman... Hmmmmm after some thought I would have to say twice the height to his navel 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 Winston does rather seem to have the gimlet like steeley eyed 1000 yard stare! He gets them from his mother, she teaches 3-6-year-olds. I think he looks a bit like his old man after a Scotch or two... A theory I've heard since becoming a parent is that raising a child is like getting a severely drunk friend back to sobriety. At first, they're too drunk to even walk, they're always pawing at breasts, they stumble about or talk incoherently, they can't drive for ages, etc. etc. I'd paint the dials or dry brush em - David Icke's revenge It actually looks quite a bit worse in person, terrifying, really. Giant fingertips supplied free of charge. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 It actually looks quite a bit worse in person, terrifying, really. That looks good to me. Also, you can't be British and not like the Hunter... it's in our DNA. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 7, 2016 Author Share Posted July 7, 2016 Also, you can't be British and not like the Hunter... it's in our DNA. Christ, first the Tebbit Test (though I do root for the UK in The Ashes, I just don't know what's going on), and now this! I don't want to die in this country. I should clarify that I do like the Hunter, but as British jets go, it's never been my favourite. More of a Sea Vixen man, it's so unique. I'm sure I've dug a deeper hole for myself. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I think it looks good too PC - good job! [Rewind to post #24 - I was on my iPad and couldn't post properly] "Copper-blooded reptiles"? That's democracy for you: Yes, I have Gin. And you've made me buy an Eduard Spitfire (or two). You are forgiven, even if the exchange rate is pants. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 More of a Sea Vixen man, it's so unique. I'm sure I've dug a deeper hole for myself. Not with me - FAA subjects always rule. There is no better camouflage than Extra Dark Sea Grey over Sky, unless it's Extra Dark Sea Grey over White. Or just plain Extra Dark Sea Grey. Cheers, Bill 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 "First law on holes - when you're in one stop digging!" Denis Healey Love the Sea Vixen too. Waiting for a 1/72 re-tool, but suppose the Revell Frog re-box will have to do in the meantime. Pit's looking damn good by the way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
825 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 PC, it's great to see you back in the saddle, and the Hunter is a good 'un. Only just seen your thread but you had me hooked from the moment you mentioned Lionel Crabbe (better known as Buster Crabbe). He was born and brought up in the part of London where I live, the ever popular area of Furzedown as the estate agents put it. And you mentioned the Sea Vixen. A beautiful beast of an aircraft. I recall seeing Simon's Circus displaying the Vixen in my youth. And Sea Vixens and Bucaneers practising for Naval Air Day at Lossiemouth as we swam in the Moray Firth more or less at the end of the runway. Glorious memories. My evenings will be glued to this thread for the coming weeks (Mind from your progress so far it looks like it may not be many) Good modelling by the way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 (edited) I'll be taking my seat to watch the progression of this most aesthetically beautiful aircraft, bar none. The Sea Hawk actually comes a close second..something about the Hawker designs. The Hart/ Hind series also more than hold their own. Judging by Winston's stare, he is obviously planning serious revenge for your comment.....I've seen that look on many a Scotsman's face after a whisky or two...or three.. and I'd recommend Tullamore Dew btw as an Irish whiskey fan. Ian Edited July 7, 2016 by limeypilot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 It's hard to tell, but I think, based on the few photos of 20 Squadron Hunter FGA.9s that I can find (the best on p.97 of Robert Jackson's Hawker Hunter: The Operational Record), that the 1960s-era FGA.9s lacked the overwing bulges above the outer wing pylons -- I believe they were for pylon ejection but am not sure on this point. IWM has two lovely images (IWM RAF-T 5176 and RAF-T 5177) of a 20 Squadron FGA.9, undated, with no view of the wings...the belly looks almost like it's grey vice silver. Anyhow, here's where we are right now: Closed fuselage and trapped the pit in it, but haven't added the control column or seat. The gunsight is, IMO, very poor. The seat looks a good deal worse in person, I'm sorry to say. I need to paint the cushion and the face curtain handles or whatever they are. Incidentally, an interview by the IWM with Allan Pollock, of "Tower Bridge Hunter" fame, may be found here. Reel 24 has the juicy bits. Thrill at the voice of the man who scared Harold Wilson worse than Edward Heath! "What on earth is the matter with the youth of today? In my day we used to fly whole squadrons of aeroplanes through bridges. At Rouen all of No. 1 Squadron Hurricanes flew under the transporter bridge one behind the other." -- G. Plinston (Sqn/Ldr Ret'd), Letter to Flight International, April 1968 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 That's looking great PC, the cockpit especially so. Glad your Spitfire finally arrived - we just need the Sword XIV's to be released, and the world may just be put right again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Looking good PC. Ooo, those curves... I'm getting Hunter envy. Great clip PC. Ah, 1968. I remember 1968. I would have been in the midst of puberty (which wasn't invented then) and still reeling from the cancellation (sob) of TSR2. Building models and hanging them from my ceiling. I have a vague recollection of men with pipes. And a brave pilot flying under Tower Bridge in protest and being arrested. It's a pity no one had a Smartphone or a video camera to film it... oh no, wait, personal computers weren't invented then, or the Internet, so there was nowhere to store the files. Huh, that's why I can't find anything about it on YouTube then. Luckily 1969 was a good year, cheered us up and stiffened our backs a bit. I think 'the Hunter under the Bridge' might be a good subject for a model... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 I think 'the Hunter under the Bridge' might be a good subject for a model... Be forewarned that the 1 Squadron Hunter on the Xtradecal sheet is in fact, the wrong aircraft, maddeningly. But if we keep that to ourselves, nobody need be any wiser. I would have been in the midst of puberty (which wasn't invented then) and still reeling from the cancellation (sob) of TSR2. In all seriousness, what was that like? Do you recall hearing of its cancellation, or about its planned replacement by the F-111K? In other news, the USA seems to have gone horribly, murderously haywire. I am working from home tomorrow (IE Friday, today), because you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Thanks PC I may come to my senses (fat chance) but I found XF442 on this sheet but when it was with 58 Sqn at Wittering in 1974... I assume the Revell kit would be OK? "In all seriousness, what was that like?" It was awful... all that itchy hair and, oh my, the urges... and embarrassing trips on buses (what is that all about?). Oh, wait, you mean the TSR2 cancellation don't you, sorry. The was awful too. I remember I cut a picture from the newspaper and wrote 'SCRAPPED' over it. I kept it for years but I think it's lost now. It was that of course that started my prejudice against the F111... "ejecting the whole cabin... pussies! I bet there's a coffee machine in there" and so on. They're reporting the Dallas incident on the radio as I type. Horrible. "When I was a lad" we were much less 'self-centred' and my thoughts were about others and how I was 'fitting in'; my opinions were important but 'secondary' to 'the greater good'. I would never have thought that I could express my views, especially with violence, and be 'right' like some people seem to think now. [/End grumpy old man] I have just watched the whole of 'Network' on Netflix, prompted by this clip a friend sent me: For a 1976 film, not much has changed has it? "You do whatever the tube tells you" Or perhaps it's got even closer to the film... Luckily for me the next video on my 'favourites' playlist is this one: which always cheers me up! Cute video. Just what we need... 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Christ, first the Tebbit Test (though I do root for the UK in The Ashes, I just don't know what's going on), and now this! You're not the only one to not understand Cricket. I used to play it and have no idea of the rules. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascoteer Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 "First law on holes - when you're in one stop digging!" Denis Healey Shares in JCB are worth having I hear... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascoteer Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 You're not the only one to not understand Cricket. I used to play it and have no idea of the rules. Cricket has rules ? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain goat Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Interesting subject - following with interest! Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufdriver Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Cricket has rules ? You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game. Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll get me coat now. Richard 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted July 9, 2016 Author Share Posted July 9, 2016 I put in some noseweight and closed up the nose, which fits almost-perfectly-but-not-quite, and the devil's in that detail: This is after much sanding which has of course obliterated much of the surface detail around the gun ports. I also finished up the seat (badly) and stuffed it in the cockpit. The gunsight broke off, again. I also closed up the jet pipe cover (and filled a nasty seam on the inside that would be visible) and attached it to the tail of the kit. Another "almost" perfect fit. Not much progress I fear, but working on Twitter during the last few months, I get to experience ignorant and cruel opinions about crises and crimes in pretty much real time, all day, every day. It's really worn me down. A friend and his family are flying in from Hawaii tonight to see what the provincial hellhole of Illinois looks like compared to Hawaii, so probably few updates for the next week. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Coming along nicely Mr P. I think your summary of the fit: "fits almost-perfectly-but-not-quite, and the devil's in that detail" pretty much sums up my experience. Yes it is a lovely fit, but not quite, so you end up having to do some sanding, with the inevitable loss of detail. Watch for the dog tooth on the wing leading edges. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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