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Unusual paint scheme ! A Recce Hurricane


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Hello Dears

Wow, This is another advantage of my Hip surgery !! Second RFI and we are the 2nd of February !

Now my friend @Christer A Will feel some pressure 😰

A Corsair, 2 Seafires and a Hurricane since December !! Not too bad Indeed !!

 

So, let's go, I like when I choose a model and a paint scheme to know a bit about it !

The scheme of this Hurricane was Strange enough to be siren song for me …. :frantic:

Well we are in Malta for the 3rd time since December… but not in Hal Far this time and not at the same era…

 

 

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The bird is from the 69th Sqdn based at Luqa airfield

I will thank our Friend Troy for his precious indications !

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She surely has received the tail unit from another Hurricane Following battle damage.

Now why an azure blue Hurricane ??

Kinda like the famous Malta blue Spitfires ???

No ! not at all it's simpler !!

It's a Recce bird, they were frequently field modified with 2 or 3 ventral cameras

especially on the MTO and CBI

But this is a thing that Italeri did'nt tell in the kit instructions !!

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I used the camera plug from Barracuda cast on this one too !

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Paints are once again Xtracrylics ones

The armament has been recuced to 2 MG per wing for compensate the weight of the cameras

Some are completely disarmed but it's not the case here

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For the purist, I've Added the intervalometer in the cockpit too :evil_laugh:

What do you think about this CC :evil_laugh:

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Albeit, I forget to glue the sight in front of the windshield Blimey !!:mg:

 

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Well, Advices and comments are welcome !!

Let's see now my MTO family

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Christmas is now 1 month old but still there are 3 Rudolfs here !!:cheers:

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Unless the red nose are due to the blistering sun ???

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Or any other Reason…. :whistle::whistle:

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Ooookay Have a great modelling time Friends !!

Sincerely.

CC

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Nicely done, and such a unique scheme to boot! I also like the Mustang Mk. I you’ve got there... I’ve got quite the thing for early Mustangs, I think I’ve got 8 Accurate Miniatures kits in the stash with various goodies...

 

Anyway, back to the recce Hurri, thanks for sharing!

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9 hours ago, RMCS said:

Brilliant 

Thank you Sir !

 

7 hours ago, occa said:

How cool, love the scheme

Thank you Occa, when I saw it on the Italeri boxing, I knew that doing her was mandatory for me !

 

5 hours ago, RadMax8 said:

Nicely done, and such a unique scheme to boot! I also like the Mustang Mk. I you’ve got there... I’ve got quite the thing for early Mustangs, I think I’ve got 8 Accurate Miniatures kits in the stash with various goodies...

 

Anyway, back to the recce Hurri, thanks for sharing!

Hello Max,

Yup the Allison Mustangs are ace, this one is an accurate but the ICM are good too but they just are cheaper...

Okay a bit more of adjustments but the kits are REALLY similar !

I have 2 more Mustang in the doing, the first Mustang to draw blood at all and an air commando in CBI

 

3 hours ago, Kitchen Modeller said:

That is one funky colour scheme. Love it - really nice build of a great airplane too - great work CC :)

Hello KC,

Thanks for the kind words !

Now there is 2 more Hurricanes on the go, one for the battle of France and a tribute to R. Beamont , the other one will be a BoB one !

 

1 hour ago, Head in the clouds. said:

Love it and a scheme I was unaware of.

Thanks for your support,

I really love the unusual paint schemes !

The Mustang is special too since it's U.S painting… overpainted with RAF middle stone...

 

So thank you

Have a great modelling time and take care !!

CC

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6 hours ago, RadMax8 said:

Nicely done, and such a unique scheme to boot! I also like the Mustang Mk. I you’ve got there... I’ve got quite the thing for early Mustangs, I think I’ve got 8 Accurate Miniatures kits in the stash with various goodies...

 

Anyway, back to the recce Hurri, thanks for sharing!

here they are !

Sincerely.

CC

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4 hours ago, Radleigh said:

Great work, I love unusual aircraft like this, not seen anything... but have you got a WIP on the Spitfire and Mustang in the photo? Great work :)

Hello Radleigh,

The WiP for the Mustang is here

The Seafire has been done before I signed up for BM, so no WiP for her

The fuselage is a Tamiya Mk V and the wings are a resin kit from MDC !

Thanks for the kind words !

Sincerely.

CC

 

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Hello All,

I Don't know how to say it but seemingly and I think it's right...:rage:

My Recce Hurricane is completely wrong...

Azure blue is wrong, it should be Bosun blue… (Never heard of it before)

Fuselage roundel is wrong too… Should be the same than the one used on the upper side of the wing

And the spinner is wrong too… I should have checked before...

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So, I'll change the spinner, but I will not paint it black

since almost all the allied aircrafts in MTO got red spinner and red is oftenly looking as black on B/W pics.

Or may be make another one and see what I can do with this one.

Whatever thank for your support and kind words.

Have a great modelling time.

CC

I will not bin the kit !! I never did that

But I'm a bit disappointed, should I've learned it before…

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14 minutes ago, fubar57 said:

Are you sure about the colour? Bosun's Blue seems to be very dark, similar to roundel blue. I used the Hex numbers/letters in Paint.net from the article below

 

 

Hello Fubar !

Well, have a look on this thread

especially the post from Tony O'Toole, seem that he has collected first hand testimony !

Except fot the black spinner, it all make some sense !

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4 hours ago, corsaircorp said:

But I'm a bit disappointed, should I've learned it before…

I'm sure most of us will look at past builds and find things wrong...

If it bugs you so much, just build another one...correctly. :wink:

 

Stuart

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