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Absolutely stunning build.

Lovely Hurricane indeed....however the spinner on N2359 as with the spinners on 17 Squadrons other Hurricanes was painted in the under surface colour of whatever Pale Blue/Sky was available and not Yellow. It would seem that the erroneous colour for the spinner dates back to the mid 70`s profiles in magazines. I doubt that any Hurricane or Spitfire in 1940 would have a Yellow spinner for fear of being mistaken for a Bf109E .

A beautiful Hurricane but i am a little puzzled by a De Havilland spinner with Rotol blades.

Brilliant. Just brilliant. The patience needed to get those holes drilled in the gun access panel clips must be something else!.

Any further updates on this excellent build?

An excellent diorama. Well done that man.

That last picture catching the sun is just awesome!!!

That's the hole indeed!! 👍

Looking absolutely brilliant. I have always loved the Airfix Hurricane, and i prefer it to the more modern Trumpeter kit. One of the details missed out by Airfix however is the little drain hole on the bottom panel under the nose. It`s an easy fix but still an irritating omission !.

Any luck Admiral Puff?.

Thank you very much. Any help would be much appreciated and recompensed for as well.

I recently purchased a second hand MkI Spitfire but it has not got the engine at all. I have tried Airfix before and found them to be less than accommodating. Any ideas on where i could get a new or used Merlin ?.

If you are making a MkI Hurricane, then delete the circular oil cooler in the middle of the radiator. That was only introduced on the MkII Hurricane. The oil cooler was rectangular on the MkI.

A lovely Hurricane indeed. A little known fact about the early Rotol units was that the early blades were actually metal and not the usual compressed wood. There are pictures of 54 Squadron force landed Spitfires at Dunkirk with bent metal Rotol blades. 54 Squadron were tasked with operational trials of the Rotols during mid 1940. There is also a picture of a 249 Squadron Hurricane that was force landed around October 1940 by it`s pilot ( Perrin or Bouquillard ) with a Rotol prop that had metal blades. So unless there is a frontal view of V6799, you could get away with leaving your model as is.....

Thank you for an excellent comparison of both kits. Just a point though. R6915 is a MkI Spitfire, not a MkV. She fought with 609 Squadron in the Battle of Britain.

Absolutely brilliant .

I am liking what you have done with the wheel hubs Coors 54. I may have to follow up with my request to airfix for the hubs. I have been busy with the rest of the build which is coming along nicely.

I have the hubs from the original Spitfire build but they do not fit into the Hurricane tyres, the hubs are fractionally too small. Yes i am aware of the prop and Spinner fitted to N2359 . Also the aerial is the earlier pole type. Seeing as the build is purely to go with the Spitfire and not for any shows i am going to be using the spare De Havilland spinner and prop that i have sourced, I know that it is not ideal but it is a case of make do whilst no company have manufactured a correct 1/24 Hurricane specific De Havilland unit. It will also NOT be painted in the erroneous Yellow that has been perpetuated since the 1970`s either!. 17 Squadron painted the spinners in the same colour as the under surfaces of their Hurricanes, As Sky was in short supply during N2359`s time on the squadron, i would hazard a guess that she would have been sprayed in either No1 Sky Blue or No16 Eau De Nil,from the photo`s i have of the aircraft i would lean more towards Eau De Nil, with no underwing Roundels. I have the airfix kit already in the stash, and cannot really justify 80-90 quid on the Trumpeter kit.....more than my lifes worth!!.....Think Captain Mainwaring and his missus! :-D. Thanks for your response to my query, i will crack on with the build and reassess the wheels at a later date!.

Hello everybody. I hope that my query can be answered positively. I am building the Airfix 1/24 Hurricane MkI into the markings of N2359 YB-J of 17 Squadron. I have everything that i need for the build EXCEPT the early 5 spoke wheels as used on the L an N series Hurricane. I have searched high and low on the tinternet but i am coming up with nothing. Now i know that someone did a set of 5 spoke weighted wheels for the Spitfire in the same scale because i have a pair on my Spitfire MkI, unfortunately i cannot remember who made them!......Can any of you good people put me in the right direction to obtaining a pair? Many thanks in advance!.

The aerial pole is not the type used on L an N series at all. It is the correct type as used by Hurricanes using VHF radio`s. Both the Spitfire and Hurricane did away with the triangular wire attachment on their aerials if the aircraft had VHF rather than HF radio. the VHF did`nt need a wire running from the pole to the fin, so the attachment was deleted, so this excellent model is correct.

Just looking at the build pictures and i noticed that you had the gunsight on the wrong way around. Have you changed it before adding the windscreen?

Lovely build indeed. I had picked up that the tailwheel was the wrong way around, and that you have not put the bulletproof windscreen on either :-) . In relation to the crowbar it should not be there at all as i believe that they were only introduced during the MkV production run.

They are the correct ones mate. Superb finish on them as well. A lovely Hurricane indeed.

An excellent build and paint job indeed. The only pointer i will add is that the exhausts are wrong for a Battle of Britain Hurricane. The fishtail exhausts were a later modification.

could a moderator delete this post please. Posting pictures on here seems to be a bit of a ball ache so i will stick to admiring the models and work done by others.