My kit came with the hardware for only one of the two tanks, but replacement parts were easy enough to make.

I found that if I built a cylinder out of the proskin as described, the circular wooden formers didn't fit - the cylinder ends up being 4mm larger diameter than the formers. Using the diameter of the former, and multiplying it by Pi, I found that I needed to cut almost 1/2" off of the length of the proskin in order to end up with a properly sized cylinder.

Next, I built up the pyons and the centre section of the tank, then set about trying to mate them. The instructions gave no indication of how far along the tank the pylon gets mounted, so I dug out one of my Hunter books to get an idea of where to join the parts. At this point, I saw in the photos that the pylons I had just finished building seem to be totally wrong. Mick's kit has the pylons having vertical edges fore and aft, whereas the real aircraft very clearly has pylons that are raked quite sharply forward. The amount of rake is such that I can't salvage these pylons by cuttong, adding body putty etc - I basically need to throw them away and make some new ones from scratch.

I also have spent about 3 hours so far trying to get the clear plastic nose & tailcone parts to fit together properly. It's a nightmare.

At this point, I have found so much wrong with these drop tank parts and instructions, that I am simply giving up and throwing them away. I will put some hardpoints of my own in the wing before sheeting the underside, so that if I decide later that I still would like to have drop tanks on the model, I will build my own from scratch - it should be faster and much less frustrating than dealing with these horrible plastic mouldings. I have no idea why Mick puts these cheap soda-pop bottle parts in his kit... I (and I am sure, many others) would gladly pay extra for some properly moulded fibreglass parts instead of dealing with these horrible parts all over the model. (The wing-tips, stab tips, airbrake, etc are all made out of this stuff.)

Whenever I reach the "disgusted" point like this with a kit, I always hang it up for a while so as to prevent me taking a hammer to it , so I'm now done with the Hunter for a while and am going back to a couple of BVM kits.