Best book of Hurricane profiles?

[PaulR]

Evening all,

I am considering getting a book of Hurricane profiles, to act as a general reference/modelling inspiration. I've narrowed it down to two, namely the On Target 12 'Hurricane in World Wide Service' by Model Alliance as was, or Guideline's Combat Colours 2 Hurricane 1939-45. Would anyone have any opinions as to which might be better, and why? Any comments gratefully received!

Best regards, Paul

[Troy Smith]

Evening all,

I am considering getting a book of Hurricane profiles, to act as a general reference/modelling inspiration. I've narrowed it down to two, namely the On Target 12 'Hurricane in World Wide Service' by Model Alliance as was, or Guideline's Combat Colours 2 Hurricane 1939-45. Would anyone have any opinions as to which might be better, and why? Any comments gratefully received!

Best regards, Paul

Don't believe the hype....I'm coming to heartily dislike profiles unless I have seen the photo it's drawn from!

Hurricane camoflage is not that complex, most of what you need is in the old and long out print Ducimus Camouflage and markings, which is easily online line as a pdf. It deals only with NW Europe, but this does covers a lot of the basics[camo pattern, roundels, stencils] after that there are desert schemes, SEAC and Sea Hurricanes. a quick google reveals you asked a very similar questions last year.

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry831708

Where I suggested this ....

I'd get good photo albums type books.

Hurricane at War has plenty of photos, and can be got cheap, eg http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hurricane-at-War-C...0417&sr=1-1

copy for 97p plus 2.80 post, for that you get 160 pages, and about 200 photos, lots of detail shots too. Had a copy for years, never get tired of it.

there are some Polish monographs that have lots of photos as well, which I have found as pdf's. There's a very good one on foreign Hurricane use.

And there are lots of photos on the IWM site. You can always ask what scheme a photo is here

HTH

T

[Test Graham]

Good advice from Troy. If you are looking for inspiration either of the two you suggest will do, but neither is perfect. I have the Guideline (and lots of other Hurricane books) so didn't bother getting the In Target, so can't compare them directly.

[Tailwheel]

Thanks for the heads-up and the link ,Troy

Many thanks

D.

[Don McIntyre]

You definitely don't want to use profiles as your only reference. I use profiles more for inspiration, as profiles are based on the artists' interpretation of photos, or maybe the artists' interpretation of another profile. Some artists are better at it than others.