Hawker Sea Hunter development - the Hawker Herne, 1962

[rickshaw]

Latest update.  As usual, things move slowly.

New tail:



Perhaps this would earn the nickname "Mako"?  Perhaps it needs a shark's mouth?

Wings and tail surfaces added.  Wings cut, ready for folding:



A question has been raised in my mind.  How does the canopy open on this?  Slide backwards?  Open sideways?  Clamshell?   Any suggestions?

[Cobra]

You may want to use an F-4 Phantom Canopy or a Tomcat Canopy for your Plane. Hope This Helps. Dan

[rickshaw]

You may want to use an F-4 Phantom Canopy or a Tomcat Canopy for your Plane. Hope This Helps. Dan

Cobra, thanks, it already comes with a canopy.

[apophenia]

Looking good rickshaw!

A question has been raised in my mind.  How does the canopy open on this?  Slide backwards?  Open sideways?  Clamshell?   Any suggestions?

It'd look most modern with a clamshell but, WIW, I lean towards to sideways hinged.

Perhaps this would earn the nickname "Mako"?  Perhaps it needs a shark's mouth?

Yes sir! 801 NAS, personal markings of "Sharkey" Ward? 

[rickshaw]

Looking good rickshaw!

A question has been raised in my mind.  How does the canopy open on this?  Slide backwards?  Open sideways?  Clamshell?   Any suggestions?

It'd look most modern with a clamshell but, WIW, I lean towards to sideways hinged.

I do as well.  Its too long for a sliding canopy (although Buccaneers had a long sliding canopy) and clamshells weren't really done by the British as far as I can tell (I'm sure someone will pop up with examples ).

Perhaps this would earn the nickname "Mako"?  Perhaps it needs a shark's mouth?

Yes sir! 801 NAS, personal markings of "Sharkey" Ward? 

RL 801 in this time frame were equipped with Buccaneers.  Its a possibility though, I suspect Ward Snr. is too young to have been serving in the early 1960s, except perhaps as a snotty.

[Weaver]

Glad you've done this Rickshaw: I was planning to put the tandem seat onto a Revell Hunter, but I've just changed my mind!    I know I've got a Matchbox fuselage in the bits box, but I don't know whether I've got all the other bits to go with it....

Anyway, good project: it looks very nice in profile.

Sharkey Ward joined up in 1962 and trained on Hunters and Sea Vixens, but his first operational posting was in 1969 with 892 Sqn, flying Phantoms on Ark Royal.

[apophenia]

RL 801 in this time frame were equipped with Buccaneers.  Its a possibility though, I suspect Ward Snr. is too young to have been serving in the early 1960s, except perhaps as a snotty.

Ah, didn't know about the Buccs. Nigel Ward joined the FAA in 1962 so, yeah, fighter training would have had to be quite brisk 

[rickshaw]

Nearly finished, just needs canopy, underwing stores and markings:



Nose profile:



Tail profile:



Cockpit:



Overhead shot, showing how the noses were blended together and into the fuselage:

[Martin H]

Thats looking rather good.

[PR19_Kit]

Excellent stuff ricksaw! 

The in-line two seater looks SO much more believable than the RW side by side version! 

[Howard of Effingham]

excellent!

[Geoff]

 

[rickshaw]

It does look more believable.  What surprises me with the P.1109 nose added is how reminiscent it is of the Hunter T.8M at certain angles.  The radome is very similar in shape to the SHAR's.  One extra thing I did was sand down the dashboard in the front cockpit - it was way too high.  If it was a real trainer, I'd also have done the one dividing the two cockpits.  There is no way for a instructing pilot to look over it and still have the canopy close on top of him.  As its intended to be a two seat fighter, I left it higher as the rear cockpit bod doesn't need to be able to see straight forward.   Like many models, this one makes the cockpit too shallow so a scaled seat like the aftermarket ones (I'm using some Aeroclub ones) won't fit and so I've had to cut the bottom off the rear one but I've left the front one, so it is higher than the rear one as well (it fits under the canopy though and my reasoning is that the pilot in the front needs better vision that the bloke in the back).

[PR19_Kit]

Like many models, this one makes the cockpit too shallow so a scaled seat like the aftermarket ones (I'm using some Aeroclub ones) won't fit and so I've had to cut the bottom off the rear one but I've left the front one, so it is higher than the rear one as well (it fits under the canopy though and my reasoning is that the pilot in the front needs better vision that the bloke in the back).

Bizarrely the original Maintrack moulding of this came with two Aeroclub seats, which wouldn't fit for the same reason riskchaw mentions above! Doesn't anyone ever test build their own products?

[Gondor]

I am an Engineer by trade so I at least would though hardly anyone else at my work would think of testing their software.

Gondor