Heh! Nice work M! Been an extra a couple of times, yonks ago. Once in 'Get Carter', with Michael Cain, (not a lot of people know that!) and again in 'A Bridge too Far'. The first one you see half my head for about 3 seconds, after a full day's shooting, and in the second, I'm just one of the 'dopes on a rope' parachuting, somewhere in the background! Done a bit of TV work too, mainly survival etc, and did some work on a Bond movie back in '95. Boring as sh*t, but the money can be good!
Anyway, got a bit more done to the '110, as the thought of all those stencil decals to apply to the Hunter was doing my head in!
After much thought, I decided to attach the pylons for the SN2 radar antenna. As I knew that this might be tricky, and the model would need some handling, I thought it easier to do it now, rather than damage any of the underwing parts, such as the drop tanks and undercart doors.
The kit provides parts for the earlier SN2, which had vertical di-poles, whereas Werke Nr 160616 was equipped with the later, SN2B radar, where the di-poles were angled at 45 degrees, as shown in the attached drawings.
The first thing that needed doing was to clean-up the mouldings, to remove the sprue attachement marks, and some fairly prominent moulding seams.
PICTURE 1 shows the untouched antenna on the left, with a 'cleaned' example on the right, the di-pole mounts having been removed for re-positioning later.
PICTURES 2 3 Show the required arrangement.
PICTURE 4 shows the small holes drilled into the otherwise poor mounting points for the antenna pylons. The ends of the latter were modified, by carving, to allow a better fit, and they were then superglued into place, as in
PICTURE 5.
There's still a lot of small parts to attend to, such as the other antennas, mass balnces and canopy, and there'll be some touch-up work to do after this. But so far, it's coming along nicely, and starting to look like a nightfighter.
The final two pics show the state of play to date.