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Best Hawker Hunter kit
droseman
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England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: December 31, 2005
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Posted: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 08:48 PM UTC
Hi,

In the opinion of you chaps here, what is the best kit of a Hawker Hunter available ? I am planning a project to do some of the major post war British military aircraft. I was thinking Hunter, Canberra, Lightning for starters. Probably in 1/48 scale.

Thanks all

Dave
triumph
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Hordaland, Norway
Joined: June 21, 2002
KitMaker: 22 posts
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Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 01:07 AM UTC
In my opinion tha academy kit is a good choice. I built it this autumn but beware of their decals. I have never had any success with them so I had to get a sheet from Hannants. Hope this is of some help
vanize
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Texas, United States
Joined: January 30, 2006
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Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:04 AM UTC
i agree with the academy vote - totally decent kit there.

those post war british jets are lovely choice for a mass build theme.

actually, has there been a campaign or group build along those lines?
gallego
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Florida, United States
Joined: February 20, 2006
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Posted: Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 05:07 AM UTC
...and you know that the classic airframes canberra is coming out so post war raf aircraft is gonna get interesting...i wish there was more kits of the fairey gannet than the dynavector one...
droseman
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England - South East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 07:13 PM UTC
Is that the bomber variant Canberra or the Photo reconnaisance one?

Dave
camogirl
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England - North East, United Kingdom
Joined: October 20, 2005
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Posted: Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:03 PM UTC
Ive recently build the academy hunter and it was a dream to build. I had a few probs with the academy decals but they eventually conformed with using micro set and micro sol.
triumph
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Hordaland, Norway
Joined: June 21, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, April 08, 2006 - 01:52 PM UTC
Hi there Camogirl.
I`ve tried using the microsytem on acedemy kits myself but to no good. Could I ask how do you exactly fix theese decals? Hope you have some clues I can use as I like the subjects of Acedemy
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