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Tony,Trevor and particularly Troy, I hope that you will also accept my apologies. The wording in some of my posts could and should have been clearer and in the future I will endeavour to make sure that it is so. My references are unfortunately the Mason book, albeit an updated print and I was unaware of the inaccuracies it contains. Thank you Troy for providing in particular the information regarding propellers fitted, you have said on one sentence more than I spent hours trying to find in that book without success. I completely agree the Hurricane suffers somewhat unfairly in the shadows of Spitfire, which is a great shame.

My sources were actually print, not the web and my comment about the link was in reference to the Hurricane build mentioned in the first post of that thread, P2829 which was built in the same production batch as P3061, NOT the Finnish Hurricane.

At current rates that price works out at about £110. Very good value if it's even close.

Hobbycraft sell Berna clamps. Very useful but they MUST be lined up otherwise they'll fly all over the place!

No problem,it happens to us all at some point. Hurricanes and Spitfires are a nightmare as there is no definitive guide to follow. I recently read that there was a block of 500 Hurricanes, Gloster built, some had Merlin lll engines fitted, others different, some with a Rotol propeller and some deHavilland but it's pure guesswork as to which was fitted with what. The same thing applies to interior colour schemes.

I thought I'd bump this thread up a bit for those of us building the new Airfix (and any other) Hurricane. There's some really useful pictures. Hope that's ok.

Thanks for the link Trevor, it'll help me out no end as I plan on building mine (P3061) from the same production batch.

They do, see my comment above in reply to your question placed this afternoon.

They do. Some Hurricanes were painted in interior grey-green but not all. It's the same with Spitfires.

Therein is your problem Tony.

Next Saturday's episode is entitled Cross Cut, then, on the 25th - Fireflash. Can't wait to see what they do with her this time.

Works fine for me too. At the moment.

For me I use either of the "SAM" saws. I get far less dust that way.

Thanks Tony, it's just that Humbrol 23 is listed as Duck Egg Blue (Airfix M8 in old money) and I was wondering if that could also be interpreted as British Sky Blue at all.

NeOmega do sets for both the Kitty Hawk and Airfix (now available again in a Revell box for those who don't know) in 48th and 72nd scales.

Tony, how close is the Aeromaster Finnish Blue to Humbrol 23? Tremendous work by the way, green with envy here.

8am, Saturday Roy.

On ITVHD and at various times on CITV. There's nothing like covering your bases!

Airfix have been really clever as both the Hurricane and the Typhoon were designed by Hawker and both had tubular framework in their cockpits so it would,as far as I can imagine,be feasible that the more modern elements of the earlier aircraft be incorporated in the later one. It's just a shame that there's no throttle lever in the Hurricane.

I got one yesterday. Very impressed but it's a shame that the throttle lever and oxygen regulator, included in the Hasegawa kit and very obvious, have been missed out.

No more American than the original, that's the market it was made for.

Tin Tin's name was changed because the creators of Herge's adventures apparently own the name and prevented the new producers from using it. Ridiculous really.

The folding wings is quite clever really, it gets round the problem of the pods being too close together in the hangar, something never solved previously.

And ITV2 today. As you said it's on Itvplayer and is available to view until midnight on May 2.

Thank heavens for blurb!