Hawker Hunter FGA.9

[EasyEight96]

Hi these would be my first offering to the group build

[chief5437]

Nice, I'll be doing the same kit, so I'll be spying on you, looking for tips! Lol!

Good luck buddy!

[EasyEight96]

Roger that will have a look at yours too hehehe

[Joesdad]

Oh good, this is meant to be a smashing kit Easy, I've kinda had my eye on one for myself for a while but ain't got the room. Don't fancy them decs tho...

[EasyEight96]

You should get it Joesdad its a nice kit.

So I started assembling the cockpit pieces and the intakes last night just some simple job and today morning I painted the cockpit pieces using Tamiya XF-69 Nato black and the intakes piece XF-16 flat alumnium. Once it was all dry I painted the cockpit details flat black and highlighted with silver. After that I glued them together and next stop is too assemble the tail and wings

[eightfooticeman]

Great start! Wasting no time I see. The office is looking nice sir, very nice. Thanks for your participation mate.

[chief5437]

Nice job on the cockpit, looks way better than mine!

[Tangles]

I reckon they both look great.

[EasyEight96]

Finally I manage to do some work on the hunter so sorry for the long delay haha

Anyway so far I've glued the hunter up together and last night I glued up the engine and the front landing gear







So this morning I added weights into the hunter so it wont tail sit. Once I got the front balanced I glued the nose up


The hunter is now looking like one now




I then assembled the small bits that was on the hunter and other parts too





Since I'm having a good mojo on this plane you should be seeing this update more often

[chief5437]

thought you'd forgotten about this, lol! Looking good buddy. Just the inspiration I need, just got to add the lights to mine now.

Hope to see another update soon

[EasyEight96]

thought you'd forgotten about this, lol! Looking good buddy. Just the inspiration I need, just got to add the lights to mine now.

Hope to see another update soon

Haha how could I not forget it as its one of my favorite aircraft... Hopefully yours can be done soon too chief

[EasyEight96]

thought you'd forgotten about this, lol! Looking good buddy. Just the inspiration I need, just got to add the lights to mine now.

Hope to see another update soon

Haha how could I not forget it as its one of my favorite aircraft... Hopefully yours can be done soon too chief

The hunter parts are now ready for paint

[patrickroos]

Nice cokpit and great progress!
The Hunter is such a sexy plane...
If You ask me the two most beautiful fighters in history are the Spitfire and the Hunter.
Both also fly beautifully and are a joy to watch.
I'm so glad we have a flying Hunter here in Sweden. (and a Spit)

[Gav0909]

Glad to see some progress on this mate. Its stating to look good. Always good when a plane finally starts to look like its meant too!

And the Hunter deserves its name, its a gorgeous, sleek machine.