Johnny Tip

Don't know if it is helpful, but Italeris 1/35 "modern infantry weapons" set includes 3 Sterlings,just in case. HTH, Johnny

Indeed I did. Volume would've produced a very different outcome, I could see that

Happy New Year everyone! I hope y'all had a wonderful Christmas. I don't want to lose too many words tonight (haven't the time, back to work tomorrow), but I tried @Casey's recipe of Golden Fluid Acrylic paint... (photo taken just 5mins ago, about 10pm here) ... and I fell in love. At almost 1st sight. No primer coat or anything, just mixing (way too much paint, I could do another one with the remaining amount) and brushing away. Of course I have to wait for the daylight impression, but I can already say "I know what I want for my birthday - more of the paint stuff". I'll have to redo the upper camo, the Revell paint is no match. Even if I am repeating myself again - THANK YOU so much Casey for steering me in the right direction, and of course the work of coming up with the recipes. Enough for now, goodbye from Johnny

Another "thank you" doesn't really cover it. Great offering of possibilities, I will certainly find a solution in that! Will have to wait for the shops to open again, and then saturdays with time to go shopping. Happy Holidays!

My wife has access to an artists' shop who has Golden Fluid Acrylics, so I'd be very happy to know the colours needed for Azure Blue; and while we're at it, also the desert light camo colors. And 1940 daytime fighter camo? If I'm not asking too much 👉👈 (wife is happy, "art shopping tour" has appeared on her/our calendar) Thank you so much in advance, and goodnight from me, Johnny Tip

Thanks again Troy - indeed it is, the matt white almost ranges into 'panzer interior white', the glossier it gets the more white it is. I might try something with 54 - always wanted a reason to have it. Unless you have other advice @Casey, trouble is I have mostly revell paints as they are the only ones available outside of internet ordering. I have tried Tamiya acrylic paint a few weeks ago and liked the experience, totally different from revell. Would that be an easier choice? Thanks in advance! Thank you @mick, never taken that long for "just" a cockpit... practice for whenever I start my airfix 1/24 one. BTW more thanks to you @Troy Smith as i stumbled over your list of block 7 serials and it gave me some relief that aluminium is indeed the correct colour for wells and interior of HL795. You are a fountain of Hurricane knowledge.

Thank you Troy, for summarizing many pages of thread 😁 and tagging for more help. Revell aqua it is - so I am used to mixing!

Thank you Jochen! So many threads that already covered the topics...

I have slowly advanced in building and searching the internet, and have finally taken a shine to Hurricane HL795 of 274 squadron. Not especially a rare bird, but I like it and my wife thinks it will look fine in my "gallery" when finished (not unimportant to keep the peace at home when amassing Hurricanes). The question arises about the colours: the undersides are often called azure, and whatever colour code I look up seems so very dark! (Revell paints are the base of my german paint-suitcase, and #56 is closest) I don't need the hue to be absolutely correct (who _really_ knows anyway? looking at "humbrol 29&30"), but was the plane that dark blue or a bit lighter? Or much lighter? Can anyone help me?

everything's top-notch on this one!

Looks absolutely splendid woth those figures! Maybe you could add one guy who's keeping a lookout? (if it's not too late for that) after all, where there's one 109, there might be more...

Here's the pic in question Found the reprint in Bezos' realm.

Back with the next update. The wing assembly was as easy as can be - superb fit. As was the assembly of the fuselage halves. the cockpit was held perfectly in place. Only small trouble with installing the starboard outer guns, that panel slipped into the wing and wouldn't come out as there was already glue on it. By sheer luck, I saw it stuck on the main gear bay outer wall and extracted it through the view port - the opening for the inner gun muzzles. I have left off any transparencies, out of fear of terribly marring them with glue. (the instructions tell us builders to tape the closed canopy to the fuselage -and I know why now... but more on that later) Absolutely (not) looking forward to fiddling that pipe into place... ... it would not just slip into place... ... instead, the pipe got unattached. 😬 Thankfully, nothing bad. It wasn't glued but just stuck together. For the test fitting (without the pipe), I was in for a bad surprise: Somehow the fuselage would not fit seamlessly. I have no idea why. But, remembering the big debate when the prototype pics of the kit were released, I looked from the front: Seems familiar. I scraped some material off the wing roots, tested, scraped to about 1mm off... finally, the front fit. But not the rear. One side of the fuselage would just not sink far enough into place. Cutting off the little "handles" to strengthen the connection between fuselage and wing - nothing. Some elevations that might stop the cockpit cage from falling into place were worked on - nope. All I had managed was to snap off the gunsight (might not have happened if I'd taped the canopy on). What finally did it was widening the cutout in the rear main wing spar. I had test fitted the cockpit into place tots of times, but everything in combination seems to have interfered with the overall fit; whatever, I could finally force everything into place. and another look from the front: I hand it to the absolute Hurricane buffs to decide about correct angles - I'm satisfied. Right now it sits on the table like that and has all the time in the world to let the glue set. I will have to use some putty on the wing roots, but the kit is rescued. And now I need to catch my breath. Goodnight!

I am german (though the normandy french thought me to be scottish multiple times) 😂 As much as I usually can't look past the original parts that don't match in such builds, I really like this! 1/35 doesn't look to bad, there has to be lots of machinery, fuel/batteries and Zuse electronics inside...

What about "Strauss"? German for ostrich. ("Gans" would be fitting for a Reichsgerman thing, with all the goose-stepping done, but I can't imagine that name to stick unless very much unofficially, with disgruntled crews.)

G'day, little progress has been made, but progress it is. Here's the box in question, connected to the switch for gear and flaps. As you see, the IP has joined the others in the cockpit. The three decals for the IP have been... well... dungy. With decal softener, they would stay in place. One part of the gauge. And the other half of it would land halfway to the neighbouring gauge. Lots of colourful language was uttered under my breath, some cutting done, and the decal part for the main gear indicator had to be excluded completely - at least the one to be easily painted by hand. As you can see, work on the seatbelts has finally started. And another view of the pilot's office. That decal on the side panel sits just fine, with minimal effort. Wings appear on the horizon (at long last - can't remember a model I've worked on so long with so little to show for it) so I worked a little on the inserts for the landing lights. Thank goodness I have access to very small drills at work... ... and some personnel too. Our shop is designed (and budgeted!) for at least 4 people, and I've been working through the late summer with just one part-time colleague. That's when I came up with the idea for this board. Bye for now, your trusted audiologist Johnny Tip

Looking very good, especially the engine. Are those seatbelts self-made?

Thanks Chris, it was one of my happier modeling moments😂 Just like in other builds one is tempted to implement details noone will ever see after you close up the fuselage, unless you open some hatches. I have now decided against it as I don't want to take on too many new things at once - the extra plumbing visible in the cockpit will be enough for me. Sure, some of it will still be out of sight once the seat is in place, but you all know how it goes - I know it's there. And I know a little bit more about this wonderful aeroplane (though I'll never surpass Troy). A view from downstairs. I still intend to add the wires from the wheels/flaps lever to the control box, that is why there are those tiny holes. And another view. Those wires on the port side belong to the oil system (that's where I decided not to open that hatch), the ending points out of view from the cockpit... maybe when I finally do the 1/24 one... but that's a Mk I... hm. No Building tomorrow as we visit Gordon Matthew Sumner's show, so still time to reconsider. The inside wired as well... Surely the next part to tackle will be the IP... let's see how the kit variant works. Good night for now, Johnny Tip. PS: just a shot of the test fitting

Yesterday evening was a good one. I got to do a bit of modeling... ... didn't forget to NOT paint the little windows in the gear bay roof... ... did a little test fit of the cockpit as-is in the fuselage... ... and got to prepare the midsection of the wing. That enabled me to do some test fittings. And those showed to me the answer to my question in post #1 - there IS indeed enough room for the control box. Also helped me recognise the spaces shown in the pictures in my Haynes' magic book of info.. So work can continue if time will be available. Next on: how will I fit the wiring to the back wing spar if I have to attach it to the cockpit - and thus the fuselage - before finally fitting fuselage and lower midsection wing together? Stay tuned.

You might not absolutely need the two-bladed prop for the Belgian Hurricane: they also had at least one with a three-bladed prop IIRC, an RAF aircraft after an emergency landing that had gotten new roundels. Will follow, especially for the 72 engine!

I found them too late, otherwise I'd have gotten me their Little Bird... I agree - it's the decision between beauty and storage space. I also vote for the Coast Guard scheme😂

(always tricky if not impossible to post pics from my mobile... now mended.) Here's the diagram for my question. And this is as far as I've come with the part. A little more sightseeing: Test fitting of theback armor and the seat. The seat's patch to stop the ripcord from chafing has already gotten painted brown by now, and Eduard's seatbelts are waiting for installment. And here's the beer lever. I'm not quite sure if it is correct to have a brass firing button in a Mk. IIb, but red by Revell's instructions didn't seem right as well. Actual status from a few hours ago. Back armor once again installed for testing and planning. I haven't decided whether to put more tubing next to the hydraulic pump once the lever is installed, or leave it be. That's all for now, Johnny Tip out.

Right, here goes my second WIP ever. I've finally started with the Revell Hurricane Mk IIb, been working for about two weeks and hav neither finished the cockpit nor am I close. Admittedly I only have late evenings for modelling and have skipped some days completely for assembling 1/1 scale children's room's bed and 2 cupboards,and for diving into early 20's Birmingham with Peaky Blinders. But also I have never before took so much care with the little details of a cockpit, and much of the time is spent on looking at pictures in my copy of Haynes' Workshop manual and here on BM. Pictures are to follow, but right now I have a problem: WHERE do I fit the Hydraulic system's control box? (apologies for earlier strong words) The diagram and picture places it lower than the framework that holds the cockpit, but if I'm not much mistaken that space is taken by the main gear bay (and I stopped my looking for a coolant system duct when I realized it is the tube that is clearly visible looking inside that bay). Can anyone here help me with that? Btw if I have already committed errors please feel free to point them out, be they in planning or building part recognition. Thanks in advance, Johnny Tip

I think I know... 😁 Great technique with the round drill! I'll remember that!

Hello everyone, I live about a 10 minute car ride from the Möhne dam, so naturally I had to build a dambuster. I did, about 15 years ago, the Revell one (others hard to get here). Not the newer version that happened to turn up in stores a few months after, but the decade-old animal with no interior (just like with my B-17). I did some upgrading, without any AM parts but strickly selfmade. Well, almost, I got a spare pilot seat from my pal who had a new "normal" Lanc, and I peeked into his instructions for building an interior. The crew was on board, although the only visible thing of the radioman was a piece of yellow lifvest through the window. After that, I moved several times, and the model disappeared in a box. About 2 weeks ago, I got to, well, upgrade my show-cupboard, suddenly had lots of empty room, and while looking for things to place there stumbeled upon the Lancaster. By accident I got the idea for a display... and here it is. A plank with half a plastic chopstick. Horribly silvered decals. So be it. No time to upgrade, didn't want to wait half a year for the full anniversary. ) No, you haven't had a pint too many... one focus on the pilot and flight engineer, the other on the maps of the navigator. The cockpit hood (is that correct with such a big thing?) had come loose during storage, and in an unfortunate accident the radioman went AWOL. I got him of course, but there's no way to get him sit at his post again. I decided to do Gibson's plane. Starting with the wooden stand, I wasn't sure if I had a good idea or if it'd turn out absolutely hideous. Actually, I'm rather pleased with it. What do you think? RRRROOOAAAAARRRRing across the water towards the dam... That's all (for now, might redo some things, like the prop discs), Johnny Tip out. (No mention of the codeword for success? ... No.)