Foghorn Leghorn Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Listed on the Hannants website. No details other than "future release". http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/IT2713 Not seen this release mentioned before so apologies if it's already been posted elsewhere.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avro683 Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 The parts breakdown in their Mk1 would confirm your theory. Certainly one for my shopping list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 The Italeri hurricane is a mixed bag, overall it's well shaped, but has a load of stupid mistakes that really should not have been made. here's a list of correction for the Italeri kit I have compiled ... yep, nit picking/rivet counting, but given the info is out there they really should not have been made... and they did look at real planes as shown by the pics in the booklet!! Note Model Aircraft Monthly Vol 4, no 11[nov 2005] did a 1/48th reprint of the A.L. Bentley plans, which are rated as the best, taken from the production drawings. Available at the mo for 2 quid here http://www.sampublic...t_29.html .... and well worth investing in in light of the following... Pity Italeri didn't! Two items are in need to replacement, the Prop, and the wheels props, the DH type I think is unsalvageable, the Rotol could be corrected. Quickboost do a replacement DH type, but I not examined it. The Airfix and Ark kits both have options of different props, the Rotol ones from these can be used, though the overall diameter of the rotol blades needs reducing. They also have the early Spitfire type included, as fitted to some early planes. The Ark kit also has the longer Hurricane Rotol which was retrofitted to MkI's later on. [for example, the Hendon MkI has the later type rotol and MkII type tailwheel fitted from it's days in Training command] Wheels, They really cocked up adding 3 spoke wheels, as that's something I've never seen on a Hurricane! Real shame as the 5 spoke are used on the early production, all fabric wing and a lot of early metal....[Classic Airframes missed this too, so kit that had 4 and 5 spoke would have been a real boon.] The wheels don't look quite right. The 4 spoke wheel hubs might be salvageable. [the Hasegawa wheels are wrong too by the way...hubs are too small.] The 'best' replacement 4-spoke wheels I've seen are the True Details ones, but they need the overdone weight bulges reducing. tail wheel too high, with no hole for it. fabric overlapping metal on tailplane, by this I mean the tailplane fillets are metal fairings, as moulded the fin fabric juts out above this! This will require building up the fillets. fantasy fasteners/rivets on wing panels. [just wrong, do not exist] no wing walkway plates, but provided as decals. Underwing shell ejector ports look too short and one is wrongly placed, the real ones are not symmetrical, the kits one are. Funnily enough the painting guide shows the correct layout!!! The gun access panels look mis-shaped, this one I have not pinned down properly, but different to the Bentley plans. the landing light when viewed from the front have side that are at right angles to the ground, but they should be at right angles to the wing. I think the gun muzzle ports are little to high in the wing leading edge, I'm not certain, but something here looks funny. Given the nature of them, with a poor fit, it's not going to be much more work moving them down. The wheel well lacks detail, as do the inside of the gear doors. there is a 'bumped up' panel line on the access panel above the front wing root. curved corners on the small rectangular 2nd fabric panel on the starboard side. a cockpit floor! wrong shaped control column grip. there are build reports that the open engine panels do fit well in the closed position, though I think that they just require careful fitting from inside, possibly with added plastic card mounting tabs. I should say I have only test fitted the kit, and when I do get around to building it other issues may arise! HTH T PS all the above are correctable, and while the Hase kit is very good, they made a real cock up of the side fabric panels behind the cockpit, which will be very tricky to fix! Even worse, this 'detail' was then copied by Classic Airframes and Pegasus kits!!! please see here for pics of the problem http://www.britmodel...=40#entry814004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 (edited) Sources Italeri's homepage: http://www.italeri.c...idProdotto=2151 Aeroscale: http://aeroscale.kit...ticle&sid=12833 V.P. Edited October 31, 2012 by Homebee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Wonder what "upgraded moulds" actually means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveCS Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Now available (as of today) at Hannants http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/IT2713 Cheers, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisov Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 And a couple of other places today at Telford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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