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Hi Troy - thanks for the reply. In truth, I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable as you and the other members on this site, so for instance I'm not able to notice at this stage whether the curve of a Hurricane nose is slightly wrong or it scales up to an inch short etc. I would never have realised that the Hasegawa fuselage panel ribs were wrong. So from that point of view I'm not picky. But I'm after a good quality model with plenty of detail. I've done so much scratch building over the years that I've got a bit lazy and wouldn't mind an easy build this time around. Of course I'm happy filling, filing etc and fettling any aftermarket parts but I'm not looking to scribe panels etc. I'd prefer to stick with 1/48 as it seems a nice scale to work in and I haven't got a huge house! Also there will be an 1/48 Tamiya Swordfish from the Glorious some time in the future so it will match nicely. It might be nice to know the faults with the Italeri kit if it isn't too time consuming, then I can decide if I can live with some of them. Thanks for all the links, I'll have a read through.

Hi - this is my first post here. I've been modelling 1/16 tanks on and off for about 11 years but now it's time to return to aircraft. The reason being that a great uncle of mine was lost on the Glorious. I therefore want to model a 46 Squadron Hurricane. The particular one I want to model is that of Kenneth Cross, as I recently purchased a first day cover signed by him and Major Partridge. My plan is to model it landing back on board the Glorious. So I've had to take in a lot of information on a new subject. Am I right in thinking (after I'd read this thread) that to model his Hurricane, the code would be PO-X and the serial P2632? Am I also right in thinking that in all probability it had metal wings? In a way I hope so, as I live just a couple of hours from Vassincourt and also want to model a No 1 Squadron fabric winged two-blader and it would be nice not to have to build the same type twice. Next question, I had decided on the 1/48 Italeri kit as it seems a very nice kit for the money. It was mentioned here that the Hasgawa kit is a good start for a 46 Sqn Hurricane. I know about the strange thing Hasegawa did with the wing join and the ribbing on the access panel and I know there is a problem with the gun ports on the Italeri kit, but this seems an easier fix with after market parts. I'm open to advice on both kits. Also the MDC fabric wing kit didn't seem to get a good report here but I'll need something like it for the Vassincourt project later. Is it really awful, of fixable with filler etc.? Can you point me to any examples of finished kits fitted with this conversion? Lots of questions. Thanks for your time.