Prone Pilot Hunter

[NARSES2]

Have you checked your local £ Store, or equivalent Kit ? They tend to be with the "Kiddies Party" stuff.

Slightly shorter than those you get in "proper" stores and occasionally splinter a little, but at the price/amount you get, who's to complain ? 

[Scotaidh]

I never use toothpicks, unless is for a rickety fence in a diorama ... I long-handled cotton swabs - roll them over emplaced decals to remove excess water - but those long handles make great spikes, given a wee bit of elbow grease with a double-mill file.

I also use the sharpened ones to place super-glue into small spaces.

I get them from Amazon - you get 200-300 for about $5, and they last me years.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm fighting to get this finished for Telford before I leave home on Wednesday, and it's still touch and go.

The main gear legs are assembled and glued in place, but the nose gear snapped almost as soon as its glue had set.  Luckily I have a metal set from SAC and I'll try and graft that  on in place. All the small doors then have to be glued on, and that'll be pretty fiddly if I recall previous Hunter builds correctly.

I have got the canopy in place now, and that'll need masking up and painting, and that should be that.

Fingers crossed that I'll make it.

[PR19_Kit]

Looks like there's a MUCH better chance of the PP Hunter making it to Telford now. 

I've spent the last hour or so gluing the myriad gear doors in position and attaching the SAC metal nose leg.

A hint for other users of this nicely detailed accessory, bend the two side legs apart a little bit and file the slot a LOT deeper, or the stock Revell nosewheel won't fit!

Don't ask me how I know this of course.....

One of the tiny outer side doors for the main gear has vanished, but it's just a 2 x 3mm rectangle and a scrap bit of styrene will go on there later, and the serial no. decal has fallen off one outer door. That may not make it to Telford, it's underneath the aircraft and difficult to see anyway....

Just the main wheels to add and tha canopy to mask and paint and that's it. 

[Gondor]

Looks like there's a MUCH better chance of the PP Hunter making it to Telford now. 

I've spent the last hour or so gluing the myriad gear doors in position and attaching the SAC metal nose leg.

A hint for other users of this nicely detailed accessory, bend the two side legs apart a little bit and file the slot a LOT deeper, or the stock Revell nosewheel won't fit!

Don't ask me how I know this of course.....

One of the tiny outer side doors for the main gear has vanished, but it's just a 2 x 3mm rectangle and a scrap bit of styrene will go on there later, and the serial no. decal has fallen off one outer door. That may not make it to Telford, it's underneath the aircraft and difficult to see anyway....

Just the main wheels to add and tha canopy to mask and paint and that's it. 

Glad to hear it Kit. I have found my second Xtrakit Scimitar which I had started so I think the naval PP aircraft is a go 

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

XF371 is done at last! 

And in the nick of time for Telford, but at least the paint will be dry on the day, unlike some of the models I've shown there in the past.

The cockpit framing's all painted now, and I'm just waiting for the gloss varnish to dry off and then I'll post the odd pic or two.

[PR19_Kit]

And here's the pics of the completed prone pilot Hunter.

[NARSES2]

Reminds me of a cartoon character, but I can't remember which one 

Nice job Kit 

[zenrat]

 

[Old Wombat]

Odd lookin'! But nice bit of work!

[frank2056]

An odd beauty! I'm sure Eric "Winkle" Brown would have loved testing it! He was a fan (of sorts) for prone pilot positions.

[PR19_Kit]

The question is now, what do I do with the other prone pilot Meteor nose?

I'm tempted to 'Go Soviet' and stick it on a Yak 25 or similar, but with a more Russian canopy, the standard one is just TOO stylish for the Eastern Bloc.

[Gondor]

The question is now, what do I do with the other prone pilot Meteor nose?

Starfighter?

Gondor

[zenrat]

The question is now, what do I do with the other prone pilot Meteor nose?

Starfighter?

Gondor

Whirlwind?

[PR19_Kit]

Whirlwind?

A prone pilot helicopter would be just TOO silly.