Hunter G-Hunt

re the courtesy aircraft sale. If the aircraft is up for $35,000 yes it is. Has been reduced fro the original asking price of $50,000. Im led to beleive it hasnt flown for a while and has serious corrosion in one of the wings. How true the latter comment is im unsure.

BTW, wasn’t there a formation A2A shot of the three red Flack birds?

There sure was…… 🙂
And loads more HERE from a previous thread 😉

Seafuryfan–

That is gorgeous. Those cheatlines handpainted onto a Frog Fury? Yikes. And yet I remember one of the first models I ever built was a 109; I didn’t like the idea of decals over top of the finish, so painted all the markings by hand! Couldn’t do that now to save my life…

BTW, wasn’t there a formation A2A shot of the three red Flack birds?

S.

Oh: quick PS…check Courtesy Aircraft. They’ve a Hunter going really rather cheaply, painted like one of the prototypes–the all-red one. Looks like G-HUNT with roundels. One pretty machine.

Please all of you no more. Im beggning to dig my ref folders out already. My personal fave was his Spit G-Fire. Now how would a 1/48th Hunter, Sea Fury and Spitfire look together. Or am I going to far

Sorry to tempt you PP, but even with my clumsy hands I managed to paint G-FURY’s cheat lines onto the Frog 1/72 Sea Fury. I can’t remember how, but it was in part probably a carnal desire to re-create (for me) the most beautiful civilian colour scheme I’ve ever come across (hence my avatar).

Your right of course. The thing was this was meant to be an easy relaxing build. after my last project a lancaster conversion to show PA474 when at Cranfield with the Gnat wing on the top of the fuselage and no turrets. I may do G-HUNT with stripes on the 1/32nd scale Hunter kit one day. Stop filling my easily led mind with ideas. Im VERY easily led.

You could probably recreate those stripes by making custom transfers on the computer and printing them on blank transfer paper.

Regards,

Dan

Im actually modelling the aircraft just after Flack sold it to the Late Mike Carlton. Ive also bottled out trying to recreate the various fuselage stripes. A ruined model waiting to happen I feel.

When I built a model of G-HUNT (many years ago now) I built it with the wheels up, and mounted on pipe-cleaner jetpipe display. Most effective, and ‘clean’ looking.

Also avoided the cheatines I had to put on G-FIRE. Nasty in 1/72.

thanks guys. I guess I should learn to build kits straight from the box rather than pursue my own daft ideas for something a lil differant.

Yes I know what you mean about acquiring things SeaFury fan. Good choice of aircraft by the way for your ID. The trouble is Im 30 and still acquire odds and sods from various places and still treasure them. Is that a sign I havnt grown up yet?

The gear and the bays were white on the Spitfire but I suspect on the Hunter the bays were white but the gear was pale grey.

Mark

True….they were white.Not brilliant white,slightly off white.Legs were the same….and the nosewheel hub.
Can still …just…remember lying under it with can and brush !

And theres me (looking at the finish) thinking that Spencer had some sophisticated spray bay 🙂

Canany one tell me the colour of the undercarriage bays and legs. Pictures suggest that they were white. Is this true?

True….they were white.Not brilliant white,slightly off white.Legs were the same….and the nosewheel hub.
Can still …just…remember lying under it with can and brush !

Hello Phantom Fixer, my photos of G-FURY show an all-white undercarriage assembly, including the interior of the gear doors. That part of the wing interior visible when the wing is folded is also white.

BTW, as an air cadet, I bought a ‘Phantom Phixer’ cloth liney badge from 79 Sqn groundcrew fund at Wildenrath in 1979, and was given a F705H, F707A and a ‘Remove Before Flight’ tag into the bargain. Its amazing what you treasure as a youngster 🙂

From these photos taken by me at Fairford and Valley, I would say that the nosegear leg was grey and undercarriage doors (or at least the parts that are visible here) were white. I hope that is of some help.