Enter the Huntress *** FINISHED ***

[iggie]

Great work going on here!

[general rocket]

Your friend is probably right about over thinking a project like this.
Anybody else here (other than me) guilty of this?

[DavidWomby]

Of course he is right but I'm not admitting that to him!

David

[DavidWomby]

Here's how the fuselage came together. The fin is just posed for test fitting.



I think the radome is off an Airfix TSR2, the extension behind the cockpit is lots of plastic card and tubing, the rear has a bit of white tubing and then the tailpipe is a resin piece from a garage kit of a very obscure Australian aircraft - the CA-31.

Here it is after the first round of putty and sand.



Lots more of that to come but I also need to start work on the intakes.

David

[TimJ]

Great job on the fuselage work.

[Martin R]

Cracking work so far, David.

Regards

Martin

[DavidWomby]

Thanks for the kind comments.

Still doing lots of PSR on the fuselage but have also made a start on the intakes.

The lip is a section cut from a spare Mirage F1 drop tank. It's glued to a plastic card splitter plate and a piece of plastic rod that acts as the outer edge of the intake side then holds it at the desired angle.





The plan is to then cover it with plastic card and then putty it to a more rounded shape faired in to the front of the old intake.

David

[DavidWomby]

Thankfully, the plan for making the intakes seems to be working.

I covered the frames I had made with plastic card and applied superglue to tack it in place then went over it with liquid cement and held it together with clothes pegs.



This morning, I cut back the plastic card to the intake lips and started the PSR on them. (These wings may or may not be what goes on the final version.)





Why is that PSR, for me, takes so many rounds of it? It seems that, however careful I am, I always find a spot that needs more putty!!!

David

[DavidWomby]

Today has been wing (and PSR) day.

Back in the backstory: The Hawker team, having adopted the intakes off their P1090 design, also needed the greater sweep and thinner wings originally designed for the P1083 but also planned for the P1090.

The wings are from the Maintrack P1083 vacform conversion set. Fortunately, I plan to build it in flight because the wheel wells moulded in the Maintrack wing are nowhere close to aligned with the part of the wheel wells moulded in the wing roots of the Frog FGA9. I also checked them against the kit they are intended for, the Airfix FGA9, and surprise, surprise!



They don't line up on that either! Anyway, I just filled them and will used scribing or, more likely, decals to represent the main undercarriage doors.



To reinforce the wing joints, I am using brass strip and rod as spars.



The wings aren't glued on yet but this hows the effect on the topview - quite different from the Hunter.



Lots of PSR on the fuselage and intakes today too and more to be done.!

David

[JamesPerrin]

The sept wings also look better with the extended intakes

[Zen]

Excellent bodging Young man.

I'll second that!

[DavidWomby]

Fin is glued on but not faired in yet. I couldn't resist a peek at the whole so here's the tailplanes taped on too.



Since then, the wings have been attached but are a very poor fit - well, they were intended for the Airfix kit not this Frog one. So, lots of bits of plastic used to fill the gaps.



Now has had putty applied. Tomorrow will be more PSR (have I mentioned there's a lot of PSR on this one!)

David

[TimJ]

Looking good. Rather you than me with all that PSR.

[DavidWomby]

After a major sanding, I decided it was time to prime her to show up remaining flaws. Looks so much better in primer than that mix of black plastic, grey plastic, white plastic, red filler and white filler.



Needs a few minor bits of filler here and there but not bad.

David

[Old_Tonto]

Looks very good and you have retained the elegance of the Hunter whilst making her look like she means business.