The Plan
The Hawker Hunter is a much-loved classic aircraft and well-featured in SMN with some excellent build projects in varying scales. These projects cover the construction element in excellent detail so my project will join at the priming stage and focus on the painting and finishing work.
I’ll just add that I enjoyed every aspect of the construction process with this great kit and compliment Revell on the the level and quality of its surface-detail and general fit of parts.
Here we go…
The Revell kit is an impressive size in 1:32 scale. I found the fit of parts and general ease of construction made for a very speedy process to reach this stage with only a small amount of filling-work required.
The basic main airframe has received a coat of Mr Surfacer 1200 Grey Primer applied straight from the rattle can and gives a very smooth and hard finish.
The underside showing some good detail for a kit released back in 1986.
Mr Hobby Aqueous Acrylic RAF Dark Sea Grey diluted 50:50 with Levelling Thinners was applied for some pre-shading and initial tonal-variation overall.
I decided to add the main pitot at this stage. The plastic kit part was replaced by a suitable-sized sewing needle.
The underside surfaces were painted with Mr Hobby Aqueous Acrylic RAF Light Aircraft Grey diluted as before and randomly applied for tonal variation.
The masking was then applied in readiness for the main camouflage colours being RAF Dark Sea Grey and Dark Green.
Back soon for more…
Paul A.
Rob Ruscoe says
Looking good Paul 👍