Chuck's Finnish Gnat F.1 in 1/72 *Finished*

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Chuck's Finnish Gnat F.1 in 1/72 *Finished*

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With my SAAB J-21R in the final stretch, I figure it's time to start thinking about cleaning another kit from my stash and moving it to the tarmac. For my second build, I will be building the Folland Gnat F.1 from Special Hobby in 1/72. The aircraft will be made up as the first Gnat delivered to the Finnish Air Force on June 30, 1958.

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In addition I will be building a one of a kind aircraft from A Model that will not be part of this build. I tend to have two or three builds going on at the same time that use the same interior paints for prepainting.

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Excellent, I like the look of the rarer (to a British modeller used to the RAF's trainer version at any rate) single-seat Gnat, Chuck. That Piper is certainly a different looking biz-jet.
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Nice, got the Gnat in the British markings boxing so will be paying attention closely
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I have the initial build on this tiny jet fighter. I should begin painting on Monday.

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To give you an idea of how tiny the Gnat F1 is, I placed the Sword FJ-3M Fury beside it for scale.

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I've built two of them and you're right, teeny tiny fighter here! I've never built the Special Hobby one though - that looks like a good kit and it's gone together very nicely.
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Nice one, Chuck and indeed the Gnat lives up to its name, they are very small jets!
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Re: Chuck's Finnish Gnat F.1 in 1/72 *Finished*

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I humbly present what is probably the smallest jet fighter of the post war era that actually saw service. Of course a 12 aircraft in total doesn't make much of a force. :-D The picture setting is my train track. In any case here it is:

Folland Gnat F.1, GN-101 Kreivi von Rosen (Count von Rosen), HavLv 11/HamLsto, Ilmamoivat, Luonetjarvi, summer 1971. This was the first Gnat delivered to the Finnish Air Force on 30 June 1958.

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For an idea of just how small the aircraft is, the aircraft is paired with the pilot figure from my Monogram F-4D Phantom II and the Airfix Hawk 100 (Not the biggest airplane by far.)
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Lovely looking Gnat. Not seen many wearing any sort of camo, and yours looks great.

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Wow, smaller than the BAe Hawk, even! Nice work. An Indian Air Force Ajeet Sabre Killer as well one day, perhaps?
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Chuck, that's a great looking job on that Gnat.

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that is a really nice looking Gnat Chuck the Finnish camo suits it well
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Lovely work. It's nice to see 'Count Von Rosen' applied to the Gnat, a lovely looking fighter that I've always liked. Pity so few Air Forces used them.
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gnomemeansgnome wrote:Wow, smaller than the BAe Hawk, even! Nice work. An Indian Air Force Ajeet Sabre Killer as well one day, perhaps?
Already out and in stock at Hannants

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72370
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Nice!
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Very nice indeed, Chuck. What a great looking little fighter the single-seat Gnat was.
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