Heather Kay Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Hawker Hurricane MkI – N3522, US•P, No 56 Squadron, North Weald, June 1940 Knowing the current Airfix Hurricane MkI tooling is for the fabric winged plane, I tried to find an example in my decal sets of a likely early plane in 1940. I also chose N3522 - I can't verify if the actual aircraft had fabric wings, but what can you do? - as the camouflage colours included an early iteration of the sky blue undersides. From my reading on the subject, it wasn't very far off the Luftwaffe RLM65, so that's what I used. It makes a nice contrast from my Defiant and Spitfire, both of which have orthodox Sky undersurfaces. Painting was airbrush with Xtracrylics. The Airfix kit is very detailed, perhaps overly so for this scale. All the cockpit detailing is lost once the canopy goes on, but that's pretty much the way of things these days. I know it's in there, at least. I added the stirrup step from an Eduard PE set for the Hurricane I bought many years ago to detail the older 1970s kits. I've still got two of those in my stash, and they might end up being built just for fun! I might even build them - gasp! - wheels up and in flight. 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAAMAN Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Nice Rag Wing Hurri 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Oh, great! If I ever finish my Hurc, I won't be able to post pics of it because it will be compared to your fine build. Maybe I'll just take up scrapbooking. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Kay Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 4 hours ago, dogsbody said: Oh, great! If I ever finish my Hurc, I won't be able to post pics of it because it will be compared to your fine build. Maybe I'll just take up scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is a fine hobby. I’d still like to see your Hurri. While it’s nice to receive praise for my builds, it’s also nice to give the same for others. It’s not a competition, after all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Lovely build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 13 hours ago, Heather Kay said: Hawker Hurricane MkI – N3522, I might even build them - gasp! - wheels up and in flight. Gasp! GASP! Is that all you can say at such heresy. Bite your tongue! Nice Hurricane, but to whit. Well done i both painting and building. I hope that when I get around to my new tool Hurri that I can make it look even half as good. DennisTheBear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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