Suez Crisis Hunters 2024-11-13

[Mick]

Mick submitted a new resource:

Suez Crisis Hunters - Pointless Tag Line

Skins for Hawker Hunters that were based at RAF Luqa, Malta during the 1956 Suez Crisis. An F.Mk.5 of No.111 Squadron for Dave Garwood & Rick Piper's flyable Hunter, the same aircraft for John Young's AI hunter,and a speculative skin for the AI T.Mk.7 in the same markings.

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[AVP]

Nice Mick, so glad you included the ai version

 

[Mick]

I actually started with the AI version, mostly to make static models to populate the ramp, but I figured I'd like to have a flyable plane too, just in case some day I have some time to do some flying. I'm going to put RNAS Hal Far into the Suez Crisis too, but I don't think that will instigate any new paint jobs.

 

[ian elliot]

Hi Mick, good work but are you sure about the roundels on the Ai Hunter's, they look a bit 1970's to me

 

[Mick]

You're probably right. I have no expertise in the details of the evolution of the RAF roundel. I just left the ones that were on the base skin I painted the markings onto, one of the ones that came with the model.