Gary Hunt Miniatures NZ: Air Vice Marshall Sir Keith Park 1940 and Malta 1942 (1 Viewer)

[fierytheangelsfell]

Last year I purchased two 1/32 scale models of Air Vice Marshall Sir Keith Park from a sculptor in New Zealander called Gary Hunt. You can find his website here:
(http://www.garyhuntminiatures.com/_ww2.html).

There are two figures:

Sir Keith Park Battle of Britain 1940 (in flying suit)
Sir Keith Park Malta 1942 (based on the famous picture of the great man in his white flying helmet).

The kits are all metal and come in a series of parts: base; legs and torso; arms; heads (alternatives of peaked cap or flying helmet); hands; goggles. I am no model maker or painter so the figures have been in storage for ages. Two weeks ago, after seeing some of the great work here I took them to a local craftsman some of you may know called Sven de Braekeleir. Sven has done an outstanding job making them for me. Imagine how superb these would look beside the Corgi 1/32 Hurricane! They are the only 1/32 scale figures I have but they will certainly keep me happy until Sir Keith appears in 1/30. {sm4}

Sir Keith Park during the Battle of Britain, 1940

Sir Keith Park at Malta in 1942

Both figures together

And my favourite:

 

[Hazebrouck]

Nice figures and Sven has done a nice job painting them Fiery. Gary Hunts website is interesting and I was not aware of these figures. The WW1 British pilot looks like it would be a nice kit to make as well.

Keith Park was known for flying a Hawker Hurricane if I remember correctly?

Scott

 

[johnnybach]

Excellent sculpts and nicely painted too. Would indeeed be a nice picture stood beside a Hurricane - or even a Spit??? jb

 

[fierytheangelsfell]

Nice figures and Sven has done a nice job painting them Fiery. Gary Hunts website is interesting and I was not aware of these figures. The WW1 British pilot looks like it would be a nice kit to make as well.

Keith Park was known for flying a Hawker Hurricane if I remember correctly?

Scott

That is correct. He used to fly from base to base during the Battle of Britain visiting his pilots in 11 group. There's a lovely story of him parking his plane at one air field and an officer (who didn't recognise the Air Vice Marshall) giving him a proper foul mouthed dressing down for parking it in the wrong place. Park just said, "Right you are" and moved it without making a fuss. I bet that officer was red faced.

Corgi do Keith Park's Malta Hurricane in the same scale as these figures. the registration was OK-2. It could be used to make a nice diorama with the Matla figure . Will have to add one to the shopping list. They come up on eBay from time to time.

 

[Beaufighter]

Cheers Forum Squadron Members,

I have both versions of Park that I purchased directly from Gary Hunt. I had seen some of his sets on eBay before contacting him directly via his website. As already pointed out, they are sharp looking and I have them displayed with my K&C glossy aircrew/pilots. By the way, he was friendly & professional to deal with!

Tally Ho,
Marc