The LHC Group Build - General Discussion

[The Wooksta!]

Moulds now dug out for the engines of the big Mosquito I've already dubbed the De Havilland Devastator.  Need to find the Shackleton spares box next.

[zenrat]

I had a peek in the two Lightning kits in my stash.  I shall save the very old Airfix one to build OOB as my father did for me when I was five and shall do horrible things to the Hasegawa one.

[PR19_Kit]

Hmmm, I've thought of building the current Airfix 1/72 F6 OOB.

That'd be the one that has the tailplanes missing on the box art............... 

[kitbasher]

Hmmm, I've thought of building the current Airfix 1/72 F6 OOB.

That'd be the one that has the tailplanes missing on the box art............... 

I've one of those - wasn't the artwork subsequently corrected?  IIRC I've seen corrected artwork though maybe not actually on a box.

Well I've two builds planned, both EE, one inspired by https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=40964.0

[The Wooksta!]

This thread reruns some of the same discussion but with my twopennorth:

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49837.0

I did tape up an Su-15 fuselage and mocked up the wings on it.  Looked surprisingly good and believable.  Not sure if Dave saw it but Kit did.

In other news, the first bit of casting is underway.  TSR2 wing (for a P6/8 derived strike fighter, will cast another for that stalled delta Lightning) and an unspecified engine, plus a few other things as dump moulds.

[PR19_Kit]

Airfix did correct the F6 box art later on, I think I've got one somewhere, but the tail-less ones could be worth money in years to come of course. 

[kitbasher]

This thread reruns some of the same discussion but with my twopennorth:

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49837.0

Thanks Lee, I was looking for that one but coudn't find it!  And no I don't believe I saw the 'strapped up' Su-15.

[Zero-Sen]

This thread reruns some of the same discussion but with my twopennorth:

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49837.0

I did tape up an Su-15 fuselage and mocked up the wings on it.  Looked surprisingly good and believable.  Not sure if Dave saw it but Kit did.
...

it should look like this...
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=22373.msg948368#msg948368

[kitbasher]

Ta 

[Knightflyer]

I keep having random odd thoughts of a straight winged Hunter and a swept winged Sea Hawk ..... variations on the actual evolution from Sea Hawk to Hunter ?

[perttime]

A scaleorama Canberra could be pretty close to Gloster Meteor in size.

[PR19_Kit]

I keep having random odd thoughts of a straight winged Hunter and a swept winged Sea Hawk .....

The latter would be a Hawker P.1052. 

[The Wooksta!]

This thread reruns some of the same discussion but with my twopennorth:

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=49837.0

I did tape up an Su-15 fuselage and mocked up the wings on it.  Looked surprisingly good and believable.  Not sure if Dave saw it but Kit did.
...

it should look like this...
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=22373.msg948368#msg948368

Not far off, but would have the Lightning canopy, spine and F3 fin too, as well as circular intakes with halfcone centrebodies.  Plus wingtip missiles and underwing stores.

I keep having random odd thoughts of a straight winged Hunter and a swept winged Sea Hawk ..... variations on the actual evolution from Sea Hawk to Hunter ?

There's many development projects in the Sea Hawk family, but they're all outgrowths of the same basic design.  Hunter is a clean sheet fresh design, starting off looking like a T-tail MiG 21 before evolving into what we know.  Despite the fact that the Hawker P.1081 looks like a halfway house, Hunter was fresh.

Swept Sea Hawk developments had the intakes moved forward to accommodate the increased wing root chord.

[Knightflyer]

I keep having random odd thoughts of a straight winged Hunter and a swept winged Sea Hawk .....

The latter would be a Hawker P.1052. 

That's it precisely, I almost added "...but Hawker had already been there done that!  " Although I presume Hunter wings are bigger than the ones on the P.1052, so perhaps a 'big wing' P.1052+ might be a possibility? 

As for the straight-winged Hunter, I suppose it might be called a 'Super Sea Hawk' - my thoughts coalesced that it'd be a further development, something like the progression from the McDonnell Phantom (I) to the Banshee. It'd be a fairly pointless development though, but a design to prove that straight wings were just so '1940's'   

[PR19_Kit]

That's it precisely, I almost added "...but Hawker had already been there done that!  " Although I presume Hunter wings are bigger than the ones on the P.1052, so perhaps a 'big wing' P.1052+ might be a possibility? 

See Lee's post above. (# 27) Hawker pretty well started all over again with the Hunter, everything just got bigger.