johnd
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My first thoughts when I started to have problems was that poor housekeeping was to blame. I resolved to be much more scrupulous about cleaning up the tin and reseating the lid properly. It hasn't made a great deal of difference. Recently I opened a tin of Humbrol, shook and stirred it well and used a small amount of paint. The tin was resealed so that it looked 'as new'. A week later I went to use some more and a skin was over the top and the gloop underneath was unusable.
Regarding the difficulty in achieving a good finish, this is the same whether from an old or new tin.
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A cracker, really captures the look and feel.
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There's also a few listed on there.
Oops...meant to say "Try Ebay. There's also a few listed on there".
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Well it's still listed on the Airfix site - http://www.airfix.com/
There's also a few listed on there.
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I've no answers but I thoroughly agree. Once my brush painting was the best part of my model making, now it's as bad as the rest. This is caused by having to fight the paint every inch of the way. Humbrol, Revell, WEM, Xtracolour, all of them. Rubbish. If anything is going to make me quit the hobby, this is it.
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A good design from a remarkably poorly thought out concept (the turret fighter - What, you mean the Jerry fighters might come at us from the front? Not very sporting of them!).
Jason
I suppose that's where the problem lay, they were intended to attack unescorted bombers from Germany. No-one thought French coastal airfields would be in enemy hands.
Lovely model.
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Oh yes, and for the Ib, you'll probably need the fabric type ailerons rather than the metal skinned ones fitted to Vbs. Especially if you do an early BoB version with no .303s. And the early exhaust too.
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For the Ib you'd also need De Havilland propeller from a MkI
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Building an entire vacform kit is quite daunting (to me, any way). Maybe conversion parts would shift a bit better, a new fuselage or set of wings. Something like a fuselage to make a Lancastrian out of a Lancaster maybe?
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There was some speculation that one would follow quite closely after the MkI/II release but it didn't happen. It's quite surprising really, all it takes is a new decal sheet, instructions and packaging. They must surely get round to it at some point.
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They are parts for a Mk Va. A nice bonus!
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I think it started with colour profiles published years ago, which may have been based on poor copies of the photo in post #2. The piece of spinner you can see here looks paler than black, but if you get a good quality copy of it you'll see it's just glare in all probability. Also, this Hurricane has been shown in profiles with the Czech AF marking under the cockpit, and this was clearly due to misinterpretation of the 303 Sqn badge in a poor qulity copy of the photo.
It makes sense that an individual aircraft in a Polish squadron wouldn't have a Czech insignia when pilots swapped aircraft, but why would the squadron badge appear under the cockpit on this airframe and under the aerial on all the others? I have to say on copies of the photo pictured above (featuring Zumbach) it does look like a Czech roundel thingy.
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Oddly enough, I'm building QV-K too. I decided on a white spinner.
Also, this Hurricane has been shown in profiles with the Czech AF marking under the cockpit, and this was clearly due to misinterpretation of the 303 Sqn badge in a poor qulity copy of the photo.
So no red spinner and I can't use the Czech insignia either? Bother.
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It struck me that the normal colour of Hurricane spinners at this time was black, as VoyTech and Work in Progress say. So there must have been something that made Revell think this particular aircraft had a red one, a photo or an eyewitness account. I'll go for black then, as I want to do an earlier example with the black/white underside rather than the later sky spinner/tailband/underneath version.
Thanks Paramedic, those links are a good read.
Interesting comment about how long the airframe lasted. If it was a Spitfire, we'd just look at "Spitfire, The History" and refer to the serial number. I don't suppose there's anything like that for Hurricanes about?
John.
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Excellent modelling again, Tony.
Have you done a tutorial or a hints & tips item on brush painting? If not, could you please? That's one of the things letting down my modelling at the moment and any enlightenment would be very welcome.
John.
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Evening all!
I thought I'd build a 303 squadron Hurricane using some old decals supplied with the aged Revell Mk1 kit. These are for P3975, RF-U, in which Frantisek had a bit of success. Now, the box art shows a red spinner (and I've seen this on other people's models and illustrations too) but the instructions suggest white. Does anyone out there know whether either of these are correct and what evidence there is? Internet searches weren't at all fruitful and my small reference collection sheds no light.
Thanks,
John.
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The Airfix model is a lot less money, but my next build will be a Hasegawa - much better lines.
Airfix or Hasegawa? Swings and roundabouts I suppose. Correcting the nose and the over-emphasised fabric isn't trivial on the Hasegawa one and even though they provide wheel well detail it needs to be redone as they got it wrong.
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"Just heard the MP for Wandsworth complaining about how helicopter flights are on the increase over London. The reporter pointed out that the official CAA figures show almost half the flights compared to 5 years ago, to which the MP replied that you shouldn't believe them as she had been speaking with her constituants who told her that they have increased!"
From personal experience, low flying helicopters are a right pain in the derriere and the problem is getting worse, not better. It was far worse last summer than it was 5 years ago. Quite frankly, sitting out in the garden talking to friends and having our conversation halted every few minutes because of it is not on. If a decent supply of SAMs was readily available I'd be tempted to dip into my rapidly declining kitty. As things stand, all I can do is flick fingers in their direction as they depart.
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I've brushed MattCote over Klear many times without any problems. Never tried the spray though.
John.
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Just regular old printer paper, and I used little loops of Tamiya tape under the masks.
Ok, thanks, will give that a try!
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I agree with Mike, you're being too hard on yourself. It looks good to me.
Regarding the masks you printed off, what paper did you use, and what did you stick them on with?
John.
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Nice one, I've got the very same thing in mind.
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Hobby Boss do three versions of the Spitfire Vb. Two are tropical with Aboukir and Vokes filters (clipped wing and normal wing respectively) and the other a European theatre variant (normal wings). I have the European one and although the chin is a little too pronounced it doesn't look to be as bad as yours.
"Widge" Gleed's IR-G(AB502) is the subject of the model, hence the choice of filter and clipped wings.
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How a British Battle Fighter group build?
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What causes Humbrol enamels to curdle ?
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Are WEM Colourcoats and Xtracolour not made in the UK though? Because they're not very good either...