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I've done some googling, and can only find a couple of photos of PR32s, from which it is impossible to tell the shape of the wing tips. Can't find any plans online either. There is a build blog of a PR32 in 1/48 here, and his wing tips are more symmetrically rounded (compared to original), no idea how they compare to NF extended wing tips, nor what the source of info for that build was. http://s15.zetaboards.com/AMSIG/topic/8516316/1/

Interesting info if you google this aircraft. From John's link, this aircraft was used by Bev Christmas when he scored three victories http://www.cieldegloire.com/003_christmas_b_e.php The photo is reproduced in this book, with a legend that is slightly different (says the incident on 17th Sept was not the end of the aircraft's service, as it was repaired): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Bf1yCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=hurricane+V6609&source=bl&ots=V8aUpHXBJ6&sig=01JWVtDkl0zU-R7A0Ed3tz2UJDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9pNKa6-jVAhXCKlAKHdudCMcQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=hurricane V6609&f=false

Doing a reverse google images search (right click- 'search google for image' in Chrome), I found another Pin on Pinterest with the same image, and this description: "Hurricane Mk I YO-X was delivered to No 1 Squadron RCAF on 30 August 1940 as as an attrition replacement, being the last of 4 Hawker fighters to arrive at RAF Northolt for the unit during the final week of the month. Parked at readiness, with F/O Carl E Briese (left) and F/O Thomas B Little showing up front, the aircraft remained on the flight line until shot up by enemy fighters east of Gravesend on the afternoon of 17 September, with the former Canadian pilot bellying at High Halstow." From: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/374361787756323608/ Pinterest has to be the most frustrating thing for web searching for images. A huge number of search results are from Pinterest. Either it is asking you to sign up, or it is incomprehensible what the original source of the image was, and if it is still available somewhere else. Drives me mad! These images are like echoes of interesting conversations that keep repeating, and you never know where the real conversation is taking place. And thats before you realise that there are loads of sites mirroring the Pinterest content, making further duplicates of the already re-posted images....

Really nice photos in this thread. Just an idea about the covers/mounts: The cover with the bulge allows for the camera to point backwards at around 45 degrees. In the photo the F24 camera is fitted with a wide-angle lens, probably 5". Without the bulge, I would guess bits of the airframe and/or the edge of the fuselage opening itself would get in field of view of the lens. The flush cover is used with a longer lens- maybe 11", and it is has much less of a rearward angle, so it can be mounted right back inside the fuselage without anything obstructing its view.

Thanks for the latest information on the series 1 and 2 Chris. On the subject of 'Typhoon and Tempest Story' prices second hand, I bought mine from a seller on Abebooks several years ago: I paid about £30. In the inside it had a stamp from a library when it had been removed from stock, and the price they sold it for: 50p!

I think it was officially FR Mk. IB, rather than PR. Used to be some photos in this thread: but thanks to Photobucket, you have to go through google (and then can only see thumbnails.): https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=typhoon+fr+1b+camera&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch There was some variability in the camera fit though. Originally, these aircraft had both inner cannons removed. I made a one (EK196, 'M'), that had the inner starboard cannon reinstated, and the original camera install removed, and a forward-facing camera instead:

(big version removed) Testing your photo linking (right-click > copy image URL, then paste between IMG tags). I am worried that the URL has what looks like a session ID key in it, so it might expire. https://sites.google.com/site/picasaresources/Home/Picasa-FAQ/google-photos-1/how-to/how-to-get-a-direct-link-to-an-image Changing the end of the URL to be =w1024 gets a 1024 wide version.

A build of the resin 1/48 Planet Models Ju 388 http://www.aeroscale.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=169471&page=1

putting 'Hercules hawker hurricane' into google images there are several drawings, and there is a kit in 1/72: https://www.modelimex.com/1-72-hawker-hurricane-mk-ii-hercules

Yep, googled Avro 504 rudder bar (being the only old Avro type I could think of), and this came up: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/355151120598754246/

Seal in the decals before weathering with another coat or two of gloss varnish, this makes the surface of the paint more similar to the surface of the decals and so be more likely to weather the same way. It also protects the decals if things go wrong with the weathering and you need to remove it.

From Chris Thomas:

Sorry, did I mean Lockheed 14?

Another nice PR Hudson was G-AGAR,

I have a built but not painted MPM version of the kit (sold as a mk.i), it is a pig to wrestle into correct alignment/fit. i think the italeri boxing is the same plastic, and should have the earlier engines. Also a solid nose for making a lodestar.