Hey gang,
Just watched Hot Shots for the thousandth time (or so it seems) and I think it would be nifty to build the jets that they fly for Operation: Sleepy Weasel.
So, does anyone know what kind of bird they fly in this movie? I’m mostly a prop guy, but the jet appears to be a trainer of some sort.
Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks,
Fred
I don’t know the whole nomenclature for that particular aircraft. All i know is that it’s called a Gnat. Hope this helps. Good luck!
Genius, Roger [tup]
It’s a Folland Gnat, an RAF trainer.
Now to see if anyone makes one. It was used by the RAF Red Arrow acro team, so maybe there’s a model of it somewhere.
Thanks again,
Fred
Too bad these things only come in 1/72. I have enough trouble working in 1/48.
I may pick it up anyway, but I don’t know how I’m going to do the decals.
-Fred
Well it just goes to show that i’m not just another pretty face…[;)]
Ok, ok. I’ll come clean. I had learned that quite some time ago just by surfing old posts here on the forum, and had seen where it was mention. Of course i have no idea exactly where it might be, but that’s how i learned that…[:-^]
Roger, you could’ve kept quiet and we all would’ve thought you were some sort of genius, but no, you had to go and come clean [;)] [(-D].
It looks like the airfix kit is a 2 seater version, while the Hot Shots jet was a single seater. There is a company called olimpmodels that makes a resin version, but I’d have to do a comparison to see if the versions they offer are single seaters and how close they are to the movie version.
-Fred
The planes they used in the movie was infact a 2 seater, the cabin was masked so that it looked like a sigle seater. So it would be ok to start with a 2 seater kit.
Michael
Really? Now I’ll have to get the dvd and do some screen captures.
Thanks for the info [tup]
-Fred
Does anyone know the correct shade of gray for a late eighties/ early nineties navy jet? And preferably in tamiya’s line of acrylics?
Thanks,
Fred
It was in a short TV spot on how the made ‘Hot Shots’, they also showd the ‘carrier’ they built. It’s over 10 years since I saw the program but I think the used a jet that was privatly owned as the Navy didn’t want to participate. And the only fast lookin jet they found was the folland gnat and as a two seater it was not looking fast enaugh so they masked the rear seat.
I tried to google a screen shot but could not find any.
Michael
Guess i can’t say i blame the Navy for not wanting to participate. After all, the movie didn’t exactly make them look good. Did it?[4:-)]
It sure didn’t. I don’t think I had ever laughed so hard as when I first saw that movie.[(-D][(-D]
Just the first couple of minutes (on the flight deck) was priceless! Ballet, hot dogs on a hibatchi, football. That’s good stuff…[(-D]
Actually there was a single seat version which was ultimately built and used operationally in India - there used to be 3 or 4 of them based at Chino
Planes of Fame??? Funny, i don’t remember seeing any there. They musta been buried way in the back somewhere…
This was the HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) Ajeet, a licence-built adaptation of the Gnat.
Aeroclub makes/made a 1/48 Gnat, but that was a vacform.