1/32 - Hawker Hunter T.7/T.7A by Revell - renders+schemes - release in 2025

[wadeocu]

15 minutes ago, colin ritchie said:

I do hope this announcement mans that Fantasy Print Shop 2 Seat Hunter sheet will be re=released

 

 

That would be nice but I hope they revise the color of the OCU cutlasses; they should be white not grey.

[Graham T]

Sounds exciting!  It seems the 1/32 single seat Hunters were not big sellers for Revell, something I find hard to understand.  It's a very important jet in the scheme of things, plenty of combat use & had LOTS of European users & many others around the world too so lots of choice regarding markings etc..  Plus it's a very nice , detailed kit that builds up very well.  Just my twopenneth!

[IT_Man]

I chatted with a fella from Hannants (Tony?) at Telford, a number of years ago on the Revell Hunter. Apparently its a tale as old as time in the trade - when a customer makes a brash claim of saying "I'll buy ten of those" when a kit is announced they very often don't - the Hunter was one of several examples included in that.

 

Doesn't mean it's a failure, but clearly someone at Revell had listened to such outlandish claimed and went over the top with their numbers and were stuck with a load of them. I seem to recall you could get them for £10-15 on clearance at some point!

[JohnT]

Now a 1/32 Two Seat Hunter seems a peculiar choice. I say that as their single seat Hunters reputedly became slow sellers even at prices around the ridiculously low (for a 1/32 kit) price of £40 ish. 
I thought the single seat 💺 was a good buy at that but they are still around on auction sites for that sort of money. 
I have the two 💺 💺 Fisher conversion set but could still be tempted to buy one even so.  It will largely depend on the pricing strategy. 
I do wonder though if they will sell in numbers when the single seat version was reputed to be a LHS queen. 

[John B (Sc)]

1 hour ago, IT_Man said:

I chatted with a fella from Hannants (Tony?) at Telford, a number of years ago on the Revell Hunter. Apparently its a tale as old as time in the trade - when a customer makes a brash claim of saying "I'll buy ten of those" when a kit is announced they very often don't - the Hunter was one of several examples included in that.

 

Doesn't mean it's a failure, but clearly someone at Revell had listened to such outlandish claimed and went over the top with their numbers and were stuck with a load of them. I seem to recall you could get them for £10-15 on clearance at some point!

  There was indeed a point at which they were on sale at absurdly low prices ; I got a couple from, I think, Wonderland at around £15. I had bought one when they wer first issued.  (And then hoped for a two seater!)  I'm not sure why they failed to sell well, unless Frank Brown's superb vacform had cut away the real enthusiast's market. It had everything - superb well researched drawings, beautiful decal scheme, excellent white metal parts and a very nicely made vacform set up.  You could build pretty well any single seater variant from his vacform. The finest vacform I've ever had the pleasure of working on.  That might have undercut quite a bit of market. 

 

John B

 

(Colin - I'd be most interested to know where that Dutch T7 is ! )

Edited November 8, 2024 by John B (Sc)

[tony.t]

2 hours ago, IT_Man said:

I chatted with a fella from Hannants (Tony?) at Telford, a number of years ago on the Revell Hunter. Apparently its a tale as old as time in the trade - when a customer makes a brash claim of saying "I'll buy ten of those" when a kit is announced they very often don't - the Hunter was one of several examples included in that.

 

 

I bought six over the years -- 2 original FGA.9s with the incorrectly tapered ailerons, 2 F.6s with the corrected wings and extra cockpit detail, and 2 of the later FGA.9/58 boxings with the revisions -- and will definitely buy a pair of T.7s if alive and well. 

The single seater is a fabulous kit, perhaps one of Revell's best 1:32 scale jet offerings to date, and with that and the forthcoming Meteor F.8 it's quickly becoming my favourite brand.

I can easily see a Swiss Hunter T.68 and FAA T.8 happening, so will probably commit to 3 of the new edition. 

 

This news has really made my day. A beautiful jet with a wealth of colour schemes and markings. Well done Revell!

 

Tony 

[Planebuilder62]

Thatsgood news. I was very happy with their 1/32 single seater I built few years back. Well done Revell.👍👍

[Karearea]

I look at those renders and think I really need to get into 3D printing (My early career was in product design so I already have CAD aptitude)- would love one of those FRADU T.8M Blue Fox test articles in the cabinet, by far my favourite Hunters.

 

Very tempted nonetheless!

[colin ritchie]

Well Fisher did produce the T8M  variant of their T7 conversion..  It builds into a really nice model

 

But the chance for other to build one of these Hunters would be nice 

 

[TimvKampen]

Great news!!! Long overdue. The Fisher conversion kit was the best option, but this will certainly help a lot of us complete the collection.

[gingerbob]

Now this announcement REALLY surprised me.  Not sure why now ("At THAT price?!") but I've got four of the single-seaters (only one of which has the corrected ailerons- and if anyone is listening, we could use replacement ailerons for that reason- alas there are also some panel lines to fix).  If sales were slow for the fighter, I can't see it being terrific for the two-seater, but I'll certainly find it easy to talk myself into one.  I just wish Revell kits were easier to track down in the USA (or FROM the USA).

[John B (Sc)]

3 minutes ago, gingerbob said:

  I just wish Revell kits were easier to track down in the USA (or FROM the USA).

 

Which sounds so ironic, given Revell's origins.

When I was a kid 'Revell' and 'Monogram', along with 'Renwal'  were the measure by which the top end range of kits were measured. Ah, happy days, lang syne !

 

(Anyone got a Renwal  'Skysweeper' kit for rebuild repair or assembly? That, along with the old Monogram Avenger with the folding wings, was in my  youthful view the pinnacle of kit provision !)

[bentwaters81tfw]

T-12 School of Aviation Medicine for me.

[TimvKampen]

18 hours ago, JohnT said:

Now a 1/32 Two Seat Hunter seems a peculiar choice. I say that as their single seat Hunters reputedly became slow sellers even at prices around the ridiculously low (for a 1/32 kit) price of £40 ish. 
I thought the single seat 💺 was a good buy at that but they are still around on auction sites for that sort of money. 
I have the two 💺 💺 Fisher conversion set but could still be tempted to buy one even so.  It will largely depend on the pricing strategy. 
I do wonder though if they will sell in numbers when the single seat version was reputed to be a LHS queen. 

the T.7 may be an odd choice at first sight, but many modellers would like to have one in their collection. I also have the T.7 conversion kit of Fisher and not used it yet. The Mk.6 single seater is becoming a rarity, so hopefully they issue it again with the T.7 (followed by the T8M). So Revell bring it on!!!

[JohnT]

2 minutes ago, TimvKampen said:

the T.7 may be an odd choice at first sight, but many modellers would like to have one in their collection. I also have the T.7 conversion kit of Fisher and not used it yet. The Mk.6 single seater is becoming a rarity, so hopefully they issue it again with the T.7 (followed by the T8M). So Revell bring it on!!!

 

 

Perhaps there is an irony in the press release from Revell saying "we also scanned the model parts from the single seat kit. This will allow us to essentially reverse engineer the parts to ensure the new nose and other parts fit to the original kit parts."  I seem to recall comments about their Hunter being very much like the 1/32 Vac from Echelon to the point that there were a lot of similarities.

[chrisov]

18 hours ago, John B (Sc) said:

John B

 

(Colin - I'd be most interested to know where that Dutch T7 is ! )

N-315 at Netherley, B979 Aberdeenshire.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/dqxNVEdFLQNzVe8r5

 

Tried to link to Thunder and Lightnings site but wont copy sorry. 

[SAT69]

Hunter experts, please educate me. Can a T.MK.66B be made from cross kitting the FGA.9 and the new T.7/7A kit?

[tony.t]

31 minutes ago, SAT69 said:

Hunter experts, please educate me. Can a T.MK.66B be made from cross kitting the FGA.9 and the new T.7/7A kit?

 

I would imagine that'll be entirely possible. Revell are using the single seater fuselage to marry up the new nose and jet pipe.

 

Tony

[TimvKampen]

1 hour ago, JohnT said:

 

 

Perhaps there is an irony in the press release from Revell saying "we also scanned the model parts from the single seat kit. This will allow us to essentially reverse engineer the parts to ensure the new nose and other parts fit to the original kit parts."  I seem to recall comments about their Hunter being very much like the 1/32 Vac from Echelon to the point that there were a lot of similarities.

Yes, there certainly is some irony here. I do think that Frank Brown did a stellar job on the Vacs for Echelon. I have the single seater just as a collector's item really (same for the Lightning). Truly works of art and then thinking this was way before the advent of modern 3D day tech we now have. That said it is wonderful to have a Meteor and T.7 Hunter coming our way in 1.32

[71chally]

44 minutes ago, SAT69 said:

Hunter experts, please educate me. Can a T.MK.66B be made from cross kitting the FGA.9 and the new T.7/7A kit?

Not an expert, and off the top of head yes, by using the existing F.6/FGA.9 kit and add the T.7 forward fuselage/cockpit section to it.

[71chally]

2 minutes ago, tony.t said:

 

I would imagine that'll be entirely possible. Revell are using the single seater fuselage to marry up the new nose and jet pipe.

 

Tony

Are you sure,?  The centre fuselage is different between the F.6/FGA.9 and that of the T.7.

I thought Revell were stating that they were aware of the defences and this was a wholly new product.

[TimvKampen]

10 minutes ago, 71chally said:

Are you sure,?  The centre fuselage is different between the F.6/FGA.9 and that of the T.7.

I thought Revell were stating that they were aware of the defences and this was a wholly new product.

earlier posts: 

 

[Irish 251]

10 minutes ago, 71chally said:

Are you sure,?  The centre fuselage is different between the F.6/FGA.9 and that of the T.7.

I thought Revell were stating that they were aware of the defences and this was a wholly new product.

Also, the rear fuselage/tailpipe of the T.7 (Avon 100 engine) is more upswept than that of 200-series-engined aircraft, such as the T.66B.

[71chally]

27 minutes ago, Irish 251 said:

Also, the rear fuselage/tailpipe of the T.7 (Avon 100 engine) is more upswept than that of 200-series-engined aircraft, such as the T.66B.

I know that but Tony had already mentioned changing the jet pipe.

[71chally]

29 minutes ago, TimvKampen said:

earlier posts: 

 

I saw those posts but I interpret the Revell Information differently.

 

Personally I would be very surprised if Revell issue a brand new 32nd kit using the wrong parts from a previous kit.