1:32 Hawker Hunter T.7 / T.7A - Landing Flaps (for Revell Kits)

Photo-etched landing flaps for the Hawker Hunter T.7

This is not an airplane model but a photo-etched set. It replaces the plastic landing flaps of the Hawker Hunter T.7 and T.7A kit in 1:32 scale from the maker Revell and makes it possible to show them lowered on the finished model. The series code corresponds to a full photo-etched set, not to the smaller Zoom version.

Why photo-etch

The landing flaps are the most conspicuous place on a model where injection-molded plastic loses out. In reality they are thin sheet metal stiffened with ribs; in scale they should be a fraction of a millimeter thick, but a mold cannot manage such a thickness. Photo-etched metal wipes that difference out: the part is genuinely thin, the ribbing is visible from both sides and the flap can be lowered as the aircraft had it after landing, without the edge looking like a plank.

Usage tips

Cut the parts out of the sheet on a hard surface; do not break them out with your fingers. Make the bends in a bender or between two blades so that the edge comes out sharp and the same along its whole length. They are glued with cyanoacrylate, that is, super glue; apply it with a pin, not straight from the bottle. Before painting, degrease the metal and give it a primer for metal, otherwise the paint will not hold on the smooth surface. The plastic part the set replaces usually has to be sanded away first.

Who the set is for

• modelers who build the Hawker Hunter T.7 in 1:32 scale from Revell
• those who want to build the model with the flaps lowered
• builders in a large scale, where the thickness of plastic shows most
• those interested in British jet aviation of the 1950s

The set is supplied unassembled and unpainted as photo-etched metal. The base kit, glue and paints are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.