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#20/2019

After the 109 in Romanian colours, my dad built also a Hurricane in foreign service.
Hasegawa Romanian Hurricane kit, Eduard seatbelts, in the kit missing early style prop and spinner taken from the new Airfix Hurricane I, missing 5-spoke wheels from ultracast, missing early style antenna mast from the spares box, no ring but at least a crosshair gunsight included in the kit, decals from the kit and RB Productions.
Tamiya Flat Earth and Dark Green for the upper camo, camo scheme done with masks from AML.

Build thread here

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235056037-carpathian-eagle148-hawker-hurricane-mki-romanian-airforce/

 

Aircraft from Escadrila 53 Vanatoare, autumn 1941, Eastern Front

 

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19 hours ago, Hobo said:

Yes, an Eastern Front Hurricane! A rare and exotic subject and I absolutely love it. Thank you for the build report.

 

19 hours ago, Madmaks said:

Beautiful looking bird and thanks for sharing the build thread too.

 

11 hours ago, RMCS said:

Superb 

 

10 hours ago, Alpha Delta 210 said:

Excellent build and the first time that I have seen a Hurricane model in Romanian markings. 

 

 

Thanks to all!

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22 hours ago, MikeR said:

Nice!

 

Mike.:coolio:

 

16 hours ago, Buzby061 said:

Very nice indeed, good job on the painting & weathering.

 

Pete

 

14 hours ago, djos said:

Great finish and interesting decal option. Those Romanian crosses looks very good on Hurricane.

All details are great

Best regards Djordje

 

Thanks for your comments, appreciated!

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At number 20 for the year, it is obvious that your dad is a very prolific builder, however his quality doesn’t suffer a bit given the quantity of kits he builds! Another exquisite example of his work. There’s been a couple planes he’s posted in different markings than you’d expect, and I think that’s awesome!

 

How did he find the AML masks? I’ve got a couple sets in my stash to go along with my RAF planes, and I’m just curious. 

 

Thanks for sharing!

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1 hour ago, RadMax8 said:

At number 20 for the year, it is obvious that your dad is a very prolific builder, however his quality doesn’t suffer a bit given the quantity of kits he builds! Another exquisite example of his work. There’s been a couple planes he’s posted in different markings than you’d expect, and I think that’s awesome!

 

How did he find the AML masks? I’ve got a couple sets in my stash to go along with my RAF planes, and I’m just curious. 

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

Thanks a lot!

In earlier years, he built the "usual suspects", mostly common schemes. But because you see them so often, I started to influence him and move his interest towards more rare and unusual schemes and markings.

His next finished model will be a Mexican Dauntless/Banshee 😉

 

The AML masks worked fine for my dad so far. He used the same Hurricane mask now for the second time, no problem. He also used the same AML mask for the zig-zag camo on Erla built Bf109  three times without problems. (With the same, I mean the same piece. He also uses canopy masks several times, if possible.)

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23 minutes ago, RadMax8 said:

Reini, good to know the masks hold up well! Thanks for the 

As far as I remember, my dad used Gunze Aqueous, Tamiya acrylics and AK Real Colors in the mentioned cases. Maybe the masks react different with other kind of paints..well, you'll see.

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