Propagteam 1/72 Hawker Hunters
By Chris Banyai-Riepl
The Hawker Hunter is one of the most graceful looking fighters ever made, and it has been flown in service in just about every continent on the world. Propagteam has come out with a great sheet showing this worlwide appeal of the Hunter, with no less than 6 countries depicted. The choices given are for an "Operation Musketeer" Suez Crisis Hunter F.5 of No. 1 Sqn RAF 1956, a Hunger FGA.57 of the Kuwaiti Air Force, 1966, a Hunter FGA.59 of the Iraqi Air Force, a Hunter F.6 of the 1st Squadron, Royal Jordanian Air Force, a Hunter F.56 of No. 14 Sqn, Indian Air Force, and a Hunter F.4 of the 6th Squadron, Sultan of Oman Air Force. The instruction booklet has one page of color detail pictures and profiles, and two pages of black and white drawings and detail pictures. The instructions are very well done, with full details provided for all the marks (except for the Kuwaiti Hunter, which has the Indian text duplicated).
The decals themselves are very well printed, and give a full set of national markings, squadron markings, and some data markings. The RAF Hunter has decals for all of the Suez black/yellow stripes, which is a nice. The only real glaring problem on the sheet is the Indian markings, which are done with red instead of orange in the national insignia. This is really a pity, as decent Indian roundels are hard to come by. There is very little excess carrier film, and the decals are very thin, promising to snuggle down into any crevice you can find. I have heard that Propagteam decals are very sticky, but I haven't tried these out to see if that is the case here.