[updated:LAST EDITED ON 28-02-02 AT 09:39 PM (GMT)]Hi guys.
I am into Radio Controlled models and have a Hawker Hunter kit (prop driven as turbine are way out of my price range)and am having difficulty finding any historic colour pictures. All I seem to find are black and white. I know there are a few books out there but really would like to find out Quickly how many people out there have colour pics that are good and can be used for reference.
If you want post your pics here with a brief description where when how all the usual questions and just for fun a winner should be decided by all that take part.
The pics can be from any period up to present day as long as the are military colours and preferrably RAF but not essential.Camo is the clolours I am going to do the model in and it will carry a piece of XG236 with it. This aircraft crashed in 1958 near Kielder (Northumberland)I attended both excavations of this aircraft. See the result of the digs on Jim Corbetts website http://www.neeacr.fsnet.co.uk
I hope you enjoy the site and just to start here is one of the pics from Jims site. Its in B/W but hopfully it will fire the imagination.
It is XG237 a sister aircraft to XG236.
regards Scott
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By: Bruce - 7th March 2008 at 13:47
Yes – this is the problem with zombies. Trying to converse with members who are no longer posting, or in extreme cases are no longer with us is problematical to say the least.
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By: Mondariz - 7th March 2008 at 12:57
Haha, hope he has the model painted by now 😀
Well spotted.
By: JDK - 7th March 2008 at 12:54
Another zombie thread!
Picking up on a six year old conversation might just take a bit of reaction time from the original poster, folks.
By: Mondariz - 7th March 2008 at 12:30
Go tho this page for a few:
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/AC/aircraft/Hawker-Hunter/info/info.php
1. Scroll down to the colour drawings and click them.
2. They will download as a PDF file.
3. Enjoy at your viewing pleasure.
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th March 2008 at 12:25
Make that “fsnet” !!!! (but it still doesn’t work!)
Jim
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th March 2008 at 12:24
Forgot to mention:
I’ve tried accessing www.neeacr.fasnet.co.uk but I keep getting “Server not found”
Jim
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th March 2008 at 12:22
How much wreckage was there Scott? I was at Acklington on 28th April 1958 and recorded that there were large chunks of wreckage of XG236/N on the dump there. I used to have a panel from it that I filched at the time but my mother disposed of this when I left home to go to college!
Jim
By: Merlin3945 - 6th March 2002 at 22:27
RE: Hawker Hunter colour picture challenge.
Thanks for your info Snoopy.
We didnt see the badge on XG236 as she is in too many pieces to even get a good idea of her size or even what she actually looked like. The explosion saw to that. The biggest piece we found if I am correct was a piece of airframe skin that had ( trestle point ) stencilled onto it. The next biggest part was a piece of the wing spar near the undercarrige.
Thanks again for the book reference. And I know we have the badge on file somewhere I will put it on the completed hunter but may be difficult for me to reproduce.
I also noticed that I had been saying to everyone that she was with 61 squadron and not 66 I am always doing this with the numbers so thats why I write everything down.
regards Merlin
By: Snoopy - 4th March 2002 at 07:37
RE: Hawker Hunter colour picture challenge.
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-03-02 AT 07:48 AM (GMT)]Scott:
Can you get hold of the Hawker Hunter issue of the Warpaint Series, published by Hall Parks Books Limited? They look to me like a great modellers’ source, crammed with pictures, in both colour and b&w.
The Hunter issue is No 8 in the series; and is by Alan W Hall. It seemed to me to have at least side-views (in colour) of virtually every scheme worn by Hunters in the RAF; and a reasonably good selection of the schemes worn by Hunters in other air forces. There are plenty of 3-views, 4-views and even 5-views, of some of the more prominent RAF schemes.
The address of Hall Park Books, from the back cover of my copy, is Church End Farm, School Lane, Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire MK43 0UY. Sorry, no phone, fax or e-mail given! But these publications don’t seem all that hard to find (assuming you live in the UK) — I’ve seen them on most of my visits to the RAF Museum shop and the FAA Museum shop, and I think at the Aviation Bookshop on Holloway Road.
The ISSN (no idea if this helps, but it’s also given on the back cover) is 1363-0369.
Hope this helps. Regards,
Snoopy
PS: I noticed after first posting this that the Hunter issue includes a side-view of another aircraft of No 66 Squadron (which your example, XG 236, was with at the time of its loss), XF 462, said to have been flown by the squadron CO from Acklington in September 1958. Interesting squadron badge, with a coiled snake — did you see a badge on XG 236?
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February 28, 2002 at 9:35 pm