Kitbasher Joins The Hawker P1027 Club

[kitbasher]

Thanks guys for the generous comments.  Here's someone else's P1027/Tempest 7 taken at a show within the last couple of years - does anyone know who built the Tempest with the wing radiators to the left, and whether the nose was scratch built or came from a conversion kit?  Would like to know for the purposes of building Sabre Fury prototype LA610.

[NARSES2]

Could be one of Lee's ? He's built a load

[Martin H]

yeah, both of those are Lee's

[kitnut617]

I have done a P.1127 too;



The Tempest with the leading edge radiators is an 'in-service' Tempest Mk.I (I think), there is a conversion available from Jay's Models which used to be Ventura.
I've got five in the stash but here's four of them that I got very recently. What you see on the sprue is what you get (in 1/72 of course)



And I'm using another to do LA610

[Pablo1965]

Great idea, plausible. I like the clean lines and aerodinamical nose. 

[kitbasher]

The Tempest with the leading edge radiators is an 'in-service' Tempest Mk.I (I think), there is a conversion available from Jay's Models which used to be Ventura.

That's handy to know, thanks.  Looks as though they're mail order only from Oz, unless sonmeone knows of a UK retailer?
Nice P1027, by the way - I had seen it before.

[kitnut617]

The Tempest with the leading edge radiators is an 'in-service' Tempest Mk.I (I think), there is a conversion available from Jay's Models which used to be Ventura.

That's handy to know, thanks.  Looks as though they're mail order only from Oz, unless sonmeone knows of a UK retailer?
Nice P1027, by the way - I had seen it before.

You can get the conversion direct from Jay's Models or through High Planes.  Either way it's cheaper, even if you include the postage.

http://www.jaysmodelkits.com/jaysmk/

http://www.hiplanes.com/new/intropage.htm

[kitbasher]

Thanks Kitnut.  Did delve earlier and ordered from Jays Models (in New Zealand) - cheaper than UK-based e-models by quite a margin!  The madenss of the modern world!!

[The Wooksta!]

Both of those are definitely mine.  The Tempest 1 is a converted Heller kit with knock offs of a Czech resin conversion and I lowered the bottom of the engine for the ram scoop rather than the silly intake of the prototype.  I left the bigger fin for "ease of production" following the switch from the Tempest V to the Tempest I in whatever backstory I cobble together for it. So it's a Tempest F1A. :-P

The P.1027 Tempest F.VII is now retired due to a collapsing u/c.  The weight of the resin engine and the fact that the u/c on both the Academy and Heller Tempest are nigh on scale thickness leads to nasty sagging.  Think I've half a dozen of these now, plus a pair of the hybrid version with the Fury wing.  The P.1030 will be back on the blocks in the new year.

[kitbasher]

plus a pair of the hybrid version with the Fury wing

Your take on the P.1032 then, Lee?

[The Wooksta!]

Never seen a drawing of it, mate.  Just an idle kitbash with a Matchbox Tempest fuselage and a PM Sea Fury wing. 

[James]

What a beauty! 

[kitbasher]

The Tempest 1 is a converted Heller kit with knock offs of a Czech resin conversion and I lowered the bottom of the engine for the ram scoop rather than the silly intake of the prototype. 

The P.1027 Tempest F.VII is now retired due to a collapsing u/c.  The weight of the resin engine and the fact that the u/c on both the Academy and Heller Tempest are nigh on scale thickness leads to nasty sagging.

A good looking pair, Lee, I recall seeing both in the past.  Thanks for the tips and the warning about sagging u/c - I'll keep an eye on my P1027!

[The Wooksta!]

I think the problem with mine could have been vibration - it had been toveyed about to quite a few shows.