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  1. On 24th October 1940, Dornier Do 215B-4 Wr Nr. 0060/L2+KS of 3 Staffel Aufklarugs Gruppe Ober der Luft was tasked with a reconnaissance mission to Coventry and Birmingham. It departed Orly at 11.00 hrs and was spotted and engaged by three Hurricanes from No. 1 Squadron at 12.35 over Bedfordshire. Despite taking advantage of the low cloud at 2000ft, The Dornier's pilot, Leutnant Erwin Meyer, was unable to evade the Hurricanes, which pressed home their attack. The Hurricanes, flown by Flt Lt M.H Brown, P/O A.V Clowes and P/O A. Kershaw attacked from astern, scoring many hits on the tail area. The second pass sealed the Dornier's fate, causing the crew to abandon the aircraft. Three of the crew, including the pilot, the observer (Uffz. Erhardt Hoffman) and the radio op (Uffz. Helmut Bröning) baled out too low for their parachutes to deploy fully and were killed, the only survivor being the flight engineer, Gefreiter Max Dorr, who was badly injured. The dead are buried at the Soldatedfriedhof at Cannock Chase, Shropshire. During the attack, burning pieces of the stricken aircraft fell on the roof of a thatched cottage in the village of Bolnhurst, setting it ablaze. The Dornier finally crashed in a shallow dive, "at considerable speed" into the ground behind the Bell public house in Eaton Socon, scattering wreckage across a wide area. The Bell no longer exists, being demolished to make way for a KFC drive-through (such is progress!) and much of the crash site is now covered by industrial buildings, but the A1 cuts across part of the crash site and I suspect many of you will have unknowingly driven over it. My first job was in a nearby industrial estate, just a few hundred yards away from the crash site and on a few occasions I had a lunchtime tipple at The Bell. I learned of the battle whilst I was working there though it was only recently that I discovered the full details of the battle, just after the groupbuild was announced! The kits. For the Hurricane, I decided to go with the superb Arma kit, in this case the Expert boxing. Although I searched for information on the other two Hurricane pilots (I originally hoped to model all the aircraft involved in the battle) I wasn't able to obtain anything on the airframes used. P/O Clowes, on the other hand, is well known, as is his P3395. I'll be using some of the old Airfix decals (just the squadron codes and serial numbers) and either the Airfix or Hasegawa wasp motifs, along with the kit decals for everything else. Don't count on me using any of the etched brass, as I absolutely despise the stuff! IMO Arma's Hurricane is the finest in the gentleman's scale by far, though I did have a few fit issues with the first one I built. Now I am aware of what to look out for, my second should be a lot easier. I didn't have a great deal of choice regarding the Do 215. As far as I know, ICM's kit is the only option here. It looks quite nice in the box, but I have heard some horror stories about the fit. I guess I'll find out soon enough! The transparencies are quite poor, as they aren't particularly transparent (you had one job!) and are somewhat cloudy. I'll try to do something about that if possible. I bought a set of Pmasks for the Dornier's transparencies as I really didn't fancy doing that by hand! Decals will possibly come from the kit for the insignia and for the codes I'll have to print my own. Luckily, the unit codes were all black according to the crash report, so that *should* be straightforward enough. Hopefully I'll be able to make a start this evening. Thanks for looking and best regards, Mark.
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