Splash’s Mister Craft Hunter ***DNF***

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Splash’s Mister Craft Hunter ***DNF***

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Sorry for the late start, this will be a straight OOB (famous last words)

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I have one of these somewhere in the stash so will be interested to see how it turns out!
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Sometimes it seems OOB only exists when you physically take the kit 'Out Of the Box'!! :lol: :lol:
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MarkyM607 wrote:Sometimes it seems OOB only exists when you physically take the kit 'Out Of the Box'!! :lol: :lol:
I think you’re right, I looked at fitting a metal bang seat but it’s to tall, this could be why the kits seat is so stumpy. :shock:

I’m also tempted to paint it all over dark grey as a Fleet Air Arm bird.
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They have moulded the two halves so that you can see right through the intake and see out the other side so it needed some card to stop that ( bang goes my OOB)

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The simple design of this kit means construction is quick and surprising the part fit isn’t that bad.

The intakes need a bit more work so when the primer sets I will break out the miliput.

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Although not my favourite kit of the Hunter that looks very smart. A FRADU jobbie?

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The nose looks much improved but appear to be some nasty sink mark of the leading edge of the wings.
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JamesPerrin wrote:The nose looks much improved but appear to be some nasty sink mark of the leading edge of the wings.
I think it’s a panel line they have put on top of a sink mark :shock: it makes it look like a slotted leading edge slats :roll:

Time to break out more filler.
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Good work, the wing join is much neater than the old Airfix one.
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Is this based on the 70s Frog kit?
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Eric Mc wrote:Is this based on the 70s Frog kit?
This kit is from ZTS Plastyk's original mould. It's not related to either of Frog's Hunter moulds.

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I placed the kit parts against a Frog version and can confirm they are not the same, similar but not identical.
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That's starting to look great. Nice work.

All thr best.

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Great to see another model in the GB, but I would have warned you off that ZTS Plastyk-based kit. Aaaargh!
Though an OOB effort would be far less pain (and you have already overtaken my model).

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