A different Hunter T12

[PR19_Kit]

I've chopped off the Harrier fins and added a couple of anhedral fins, just like RW Hunter ones, and they're looking pretty good.

Thanks for all the opinions and advice guys.

[PR19_Kit]

Lots of progress on the T!2 today while recovering from a VAST Christmas dinner at a local golf club. Not that I've EVER even touched a golf ball mind you, its just that they do a terrific meal there. 

All the myriad decals are on, and are there loads of them, presumably trestle points and stuff like that, and I've done all the detail painting, plus added the windscreen bow etc. I used Rickshaw's technique of painted and varnished Tamiya masking tape and it works a treat, thanks Brian. 

Whoever it was at the Air Ministry who decided that Hunters would have their underwing serial nos. painted ACROSS the landing gear doors should be SHOT!

a] It must have been darn near impossible to paint the nos. with the gear extended in service and

b] It makes applying the decals on a model a right pain!

I'm painting up the wheels, gear and the tanks now and that should see it done, hopefully before the end of the year.

[rickshaw]

I suspect, Kit that on the real aircraft they put it up on jacks and raised the under carriage to make the painting easier.

On models, I use a tiny bit of blu-tac and hold the undercarriage doors closed, apply the decals, future them and then carefully cut the decals and remove the doors and attach the undercarriage.  It's a paid in the bum but it's the only way I can think of doing it.   

[PR19_Kit]

Revell kindly print dotted lines on the serials where you're meant to cut it into various bits, and I think you end up with SIX of them for every decal! But some of the bits end up with just a fraction of a letter or number on them, and I'm darned if they'll be visible on the finished model.

We'll see later today anyway.

[NARSES2]

That nose does seem to be screaming out for some extra decoration - no idea what though ? And yes the Harrier tanks are a great fit

[loupgarou]

I suspect, Kit that on the real aircraft they put it up on jacks and raised the under carriage to make the painting easier.

On models, I use a tiny bit of blu-tac and hold the undercarriage doors closed, apply the decals, future them and then carefully cut the decals and remove the doors and attach the undercarriage.  It's a paid in the bum but it's the only way I can think of doing it.   

1) No, on real aircraft, they put the aircraft upright to make the painter's job easier. 
2) Thanks for a very good tip.

[PR19_Kit]

That nose does seem to be screaming out for some extra decoration - no idea what though ? And yes the Harrier tanks are a great fit

A sharkmouth perhaps? 

[JayBee]

Is there ANY realistic option other than a Sharkmouth? No I did not think so. 

[NARSES2]

That nose does seem to be screaming out for some extra decoration - no idea what though ? And yes the Harrier tanks are a great fit

A sharkmouth perhaps? 

[PR19_Kit]

I've gone through my vast decal collection looking for sharkmouths and I've come up with five to work with. The Heller 112 Sqdn. Vampire looks a good start as the T12's nose is quite small in diameter where the decal will fit and I've done some graphics work on a scan of the decal.

However the whole plan came to a grinding halt around lunchtime when my laptop decided it wasn't going to talk to my printer any more! 

So now I've spent TWELVE hours trying to sort it, not helped by the manufacturers 'Printer Communications Tool' software having SIXTEEN pages of correction steps to go through! 

[Captain Canada]

Looking good. Love the way the serials under the wing look. Always sets of an RAF aero from that period. Beauty.

Sorry to hear about the printer woes. Computer glitches are the main reason I opted out of my big promotion at work. I spent so much time banging my head, calling tech, emailing tech, live chatting tech etc etc that I was never home. No thanks !

[PR19_Kit]

The T12 is actually finished now, the very complex landing gear is all installed (8 pieces per side, for goodness sake!) the tanks are painted, decaled and loaded under the wings, I've added a pitot to the port wing, RE-done one of decals that got damaged  added some fin and nosewheel door codes that I found on a spare Vampire sheet and I've varnished it all over.

What I haven't done is added the sharkmouth as I can't print one at the moment, but I'm going to attack the printer once we're back from shopping this morning and if that works I'll add it. If not I'll post the finished pics minus the sharkmouth later today.

Oh yes, the backstory's ready and waiting too. 

[kitnut617]

Can't wait to see the end result Kit   

[Captain Canada]

SWeet. Look forward to seeing it all done. I fyou can't win the printer battle, just add a small white stencil or two to busy up the nose 

[PR19_Kit]

Sorted the printer. 

Seems that switching it off to 're-boot' it wasn't enough, I had to physically DIS-CONNECT it from the mains before it took notice. 

Having sorted that I sized and printed off the sharksmouth and the eyes and applied them, and that's the job done. The last pair of pics show the T12 together with my refurbished RW T7, which shows how much of a change it really is.

















The backstory is here :-
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=39901.msg664928#msg664928

One thing I should mention yet again, this is a truly International Whiff with parts and work supplied by OGL 'Martin H', Brian 'Rickshaw', Colin Freightdog and Jim 'JayBee '. I only assembled and painted the bits, as well as thinking up the thing in the first place.