Hunter T7 (P1101-2Seater - Tandem) Royal Navy - FRADU

[Thorvic]

Royal Navy Hunter T7 WF310 FRADU late 1980's


Freightdog P1101 conversion fitted to Revell Hunter FGA9 uing the Airfile RN Hunter Decal Set

[Tophe]

Wow! Great!
And it is so harmonious, I had to check if it was actually unreal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_variants
and the results is: congratulations again!

[Thorvic]

Wow! Great!
And it is so harmonious, I had to check if it was actually unreal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_variants
and the results is: congratulations again!

Thank you the Aircraft is very real, it was a Hunter F4 converted to a T7 2 seater (its just that Hawkers elected to go with the Side be Side P1101 as apposed to the Tandem seater layout for the trainers)

[JayBee]

Love it to bits, but where is the Leigh light in the nose? 

[Thorvic]

Love it to bits, but where is the Leigh light in the nose? 

That would be a T8 which will be a separate set from Freightdog along with the T8M. WF310 operating with Fradu did not have the light as it an ex RAF T7.

[PR19_Kit]

Excellent Geoff, that works MUCH better as a tandem than a side by side. 

[The Rat]

That's a stunner! I could also see that being adapted for all-weather operations. With a crewman to operate a honking great radar system it would be a sleeker alternative to the CF-100 in NATO.

[Dizzyfugu]

Sleek. It would also work well with a radome as a night fighter?

[Thorvic]

Don't forget that Colin is also doing it as the T8 with the light in the nose, the T8M with Blue Fox radar and a Tandem seat version of the P1130 radar equipped fighter. These other sets are due out at various stages during the rest of the year.


And yes I will be doing the T8's to go with my T7 

The build is great and very straight forward as you can see I built this over a 15 day period which was probably about 4 -5 days work in total, the Airlife decals gave me al the decal options I could wish for doing a FAA example and they do two sheets for RAF Hunter options either single or two seaters which should appeal to some. Paints were from Hataka.

[kitbasher]

Excellent, thanks for sharing.  Have built my own using a conversion courtesy of OGL (pics elsewhere on the forum) and am really looking forward to the radar P1101 set later in the year.  There's a Hunter in the stash ready for it!

Years ago when I was taking whiffery baby steps I made a tandem 2-seat Hunter using a Matchbox Hunter plus Matchbox Meteor NF14 windscreen/canopy and a bit of a fuselage stretch (don't recall how I did that).  I was rather pleased with it but took no pictures and don't recall what happened to it.  I certainly don't have it now.  Shame, really, as I'd love to put it next to a 'real' tandem T7.  When I look back I had no idea at the time there really had been a tandem Hunter T-bird design.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Beautifully done, Geoff, super clean build as always.



Ian.

[Chris Payne]

Looks great Geoff.

[kitnut617]

Wow! Great!
And it is so harmonious, I had to check if it was actually unreal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_variants
and the results is: congratulations again!

Thank you the Aircraft is very real, it was a Hunter F4 converted to a T7 2 seater (its just that Hawkers elected to go with the Side be Side P1101 as apposed to the Tandem seater layout for the trainers)

Was there a reason for that Geoff.  Very nice build BTW 

[NARSES2]

It's a lovely looking aircraft and model. Nice one Geoff 

[Gondor]

Don't forget that Colin is also doing it as the T8 with the light in the nose, the T8M with Blue Fox radar and a Tandem seat version of the P1130 radar equipped fighter. These other sets are due out at various stages during the rest of the year.

My poor wallet

Gondor