303 Squadron Scramble 27 September 1940

[Wdedig]

Greetings 

A Friend ,knowing my passion for the Kosciuszko History, provided this print to me. "Droga Do Nieba "

 

 

I decided to have this framed and hung in my model display area. To accompany the print I used the superb Airfix Hurricane to honor this squadron.

 

The model was a pleasure to build and I finished in less than 2weeks. Mostly out of box except for the Seatbelts from my spares/Scrap Box. National markings were the Airfix decals and they were fantastic. Aircraft serial and Squadron codes were from spares bin.

 

I choose RF-P markings to represent the  aircraft in the forefront of the print and the only aircraft with canopy slid back. This aircraft was flown by Jan Kowalski on this mission,27 September 1940 and credited with a damaged HE- 111 (Thank you Mike Dobrzelecki for reference help).

 

 The paints used were Gunze colors for Dark green and Dark earth. I did overcoat the whole aircraft with a thin layer of darker green to try and get the colors a bit darker. GX-100 was used for gloss base and GX 114 was used to flatten the final finish.Drilled out exhausts and Uschi line for antenna

 

Thanks for Looking

Comments Always Welcome

Cheers

Bill D.

 

[Farmerboy]

The green does look a little on the light side but that doesn’t take away from the fact you have built and painted a superb ‘clean’ model, l like it a lot, good job!

[Winded Penguin]

Wow, that's absolutely fabulous,👍 and the photos are terrific too 

[Ridley]

That's a great build!

 

Aren't friends great? Having a reference definitely inspires the build. I'm a fan of aviation art and sadly not enough wall space for my collection. 

 

[Bertie McBoatface]

That's an exceptionally fine build, with a marvellous clean finish exactly appropriate to a tribute like this.

[Wulfman]

Lovely looking Hurricane, great build !

 

Wulfman

[Wdedig]

Thanks for all positive comments 

[Samuraiwarrior]

Hi, really like your Hurricane and the effort you put in to make it represent an aircraft from the painting. Nicely finished and one to be proud of. 

Thanks for sharing. 

Kevin 

[Fred piket]

Very nice Hurricane! Well build sir!

[Pete Robin]

Very nice. I like the very slight offset in the control surfaces. Gives it an air of reality.

Regards

Pete

[Wdedig]

47 minutes ago, Pete Robin said:

Very nice. I like the very slight offset in the control surfaces. Gives it an air of reality.

Regards

Pete

Thank You 

Bill

[jean]

Great build!

And the 27 September is my birthday. That did attract my attention, despite the fact that in 1940 I was not even a blueprint....

Congrats.

 

JR