tonyot Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 (edited) Hiya Folks, I may not be widely known but the USAAF used a number of Hawker Hurricane Mk.II`s as unit hacks in the Middle East and the Airacobra equipped 350 Fighter Group even converted some of theirs into 2 seaters, as seen here; and one was painted overall white; Some bore standard RAF roundels but others had USAAF markings. Now I did toy with a 2 seater conversion and may do one in the future but for now I chose to reproduce 2 single seaters, first BP654 which wears a fearsome sharkmouth and appears to have had the upper surfaces refinished in Olive Drab,....here is the real thing; And here is my effort at reproducing it,....using the 1/72nd scale Revell Hurricane Mk.IIb; The sharks mouth was hand painted and the decals came from the spares box although i`ve just realised that the light coloured exhaust stain still needs to be applied! The canopy is from Sqn/Sig as the kit item is rubbish, the cockpit has been moved forward with the `dog house' filled in and the trailing edge of the wing has been `trimmed' in order to reduce the chord as the Revell wing is too big; And here is the other Hurricane, although only the partial serial KZ can be made out; Looking into this I found only a few KZ series Hurricane`s assigned to the USAAF in the Med and I chose to depict my model as KZ492, but could not find out which unit it belonged to. The model is the Legato 1/72nd scale Hurricane Mk.IIc kit with a Sqn Sig vacuformed canopy although now that I`ve seen the blown up photos I`m a bit disappointed with how it looks,....my eyes are certainly going and I`m struggling with canopies in Brail Scale! The dark and light blue of the upper wing star were hand painted over the top of a star and bar decal with the bars cut offs; [/url] And here are both models together; , I hope that you like these `different' looking Hurricane`s and my thanks to the 350 FG Association for making their photos available on line and they have been reproduced here under fair use. Cheers, Tony Edited August 12, 2015 by tonyot 47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAG058 Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Very nice (as always)! Great builds Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Lovely Hurricanes! It's always great to see aircraft in unusual markings. Regards, Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestFan Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Very nice n different, especially like the shark mouthed one, though both look great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Flyer Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Very nice builds indeed. Interestingly I have the Airfix Operation Torch kit which features a Swordfish and Hurricane in "US markings". According to the description, both aircraft were in FAA service and American markings were painted in an attempt to convince the anti-British Vichy French to switch sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Interesting post Tony. Interesting too that the Yanks were willing to leave the RAF roundels on some of the aircraft. I do like to painted over roundels with the stars. Thanks for sharing. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruffy Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 What a good build! You learn something new every day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Lovely job and interesting subjects. May I ask, when you trim the trailing edge of the wing on this kit, do you have to rescribe the join or is the aileron too wide too? John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob 1 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Very good, and interesting subject - also, that two seat version must be tempting for someone to have go at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I've always liked seeing RAF a/c dressed up with the stars and bars and those are two beauties. I still have a Mossie PR XVI and a Beau to do in US markings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Hi Tony These are excellent. Especially the sharkmouth job. As for the old mince pies, I can sympathise - which is why I've recently added some 1/32 kits to the stash! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin @ Freightdog Models Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Not seen those before, lovely job Tony. Just got my first set of reading glasses to, so you are not alone with the iffy eyes! Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Nice work! and one was painted overall white; I think not overall - the u/c and perhaps bottom of the central part of wing and bottom of the rear part of fuselage - they look really dark (black?). Cheers Jerzy-Wojtek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Always good to see a Hurricane in a different dress, especially when built and finished to such an excellent result. Very interesting and enjoyable builds! Kind regards, Joachim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 Thanks everybody for your kind words and understanding about the onset of poor eyesight!!! Lovely job and interesting subjects.May I ask, when you trim the trailing edge of the wing on this kit, do you have to rescribe the join or is the aileron too wide too?John. Hiya John, If you are careful and are not over bothered about the ailerons and flaps being 100% correct then you don`t have to rescribe anything! I wrote an article about this conversion years ago for SAM magazine and still use the cardboard template that I made for that article to mark out the wings of Revell Hurri`s today. I pencil the cut mark onto the plastic and double check that the cut runs level with the flaps and ailerons. OK it leaves the ailerons/flaps looking a bit too narrow but it is much easier to leave them be than to fill them in and re scribe them,......you could even trim the wings less,..it is up to you. I prefer a more accurate outline and can live with slightly narrow ailerons/flaps. Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2wheels Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Love it when I learn something new about aircraft through modelling. And love the builds too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85sqn Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Totally new to me, great stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildeSau75 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Guess I never saw one before in this livery - interesting. I like 'em! Cheers, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Cracking work. A two seat Hurricane....................how cool is that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Cool,Don`t see too many Hurricanes with stars and bars, great job(s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shalako Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Very interesting project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdonnell Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Hello,Tony - Congratulations on a couple of splendid looking Hurricane builds.Up to your usual standard! To be honest,they're not a subject I'm overly familiar with and this is the first time that I've seen the Hurricane in these schemes.As a modelling subject,they're very different and I like them a lot.The shark mouth markings really suit the type as well.Good job,well done.All the best,Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 (edited) Hi nice buid I like the sharkmouth photo looks like it is eating the HE III in the background I wonder if the KZ hurricane photo was ortho film and the stars and bars outline should be yellow cheers jerry Edited August 16, 2015 by brewerjerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 A superb and different take on these two Tony,great scheme,s.Did the Yank's knock something off our bill for the use of these aircraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Aer Lingus Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Lovely job as always Tony time for an Irish one don't you think????? regards Eamonn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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