Hawker Hurricane G-AMAU Racer

[Beard]

That looks rather splendid.

[Courageous]

The Hurri is on its legs and everything has been primed.

 

Stuart

[Wings unlevel]

Very neat indeed! I’m looking forward to the base coat going down.

[Beard]

It looks most excellent. You'd never know the upper wings came from another kit.

[Rabbit Leader]

Great to see all these Hurricane builds assembled and in primer coats. The lovely details of these kits are being well and truly highlighted. Nice progress. Cheers.. Dave 

[Courageous]

I have never been any good at mixing paints, so I wasn't going to start now, near enough will do. To that end, I delved into the the boxes of paint and searched for blues and came up with Humbrol 14 Gloss French Blue. The wheels were painted AK German Grey with aluminium centres. Blades were painted with white tips, lightly sanded before Humbrol Trainer Yellow was applied, masked and painted AK Flat Black. Just got to wait for blue to fully cure before decals. Before that, I've got to source a suitable gold(?) from the LMS as the one I have is to bright.

 

Stuart

[Wings unlevel]

Love it - that is a luscious, lustrous blue. You’re on the way to a gorgeous looking model I reckon.

[Beard]

It looks splendid.

[Chuck1945]

Definitely coming alive 👍

[Courageous]

@Wings unlevel @Beard @Chuck1945 cheers guys, much appreciated.

 

A good match was found at my LMS. Before painting the spinner, I carried out a little experiment with the paint and primer base colours of white, grey and black, grey was the best and the spinner was painted with AK 3G Old Gold.

 

Blades added to spinner and exhausts painted with MIG Burnt Iron.

 

And the decals go on lovely, the only issue is getting the decal to form over the cannon bulges, so that's being sorted...hopefully. Not to far from finish line.

 

Stuart

[Wings unlevel]

Gosh that’s looking nice. 😍

Edited October 1 by Wings unlevel

[Beard]

On 29/09/2025 at 11:52, Beard said:

It looks splendid.

I'll just repeat my earlier comment.

[ModelingEdmontonian]

Really this is one of my favourite Hurricane schemes ever and it's look lovely on your model!

[Courageous]

For some reason I've never been able to get a good gloss coat and it shows here. I'm calling this done now and just neds to be fixed to a base and it'll go in the gallery. Thanks to all who have looked, liked and commented.

 

Stuart

[Beard]

It looks fabulous.

[Courageous]

9 minutes ago, Beard said:

It looks fabulous.

Thanks Simon, much appreciated and thanks for the wings, saved me a lot of work.

 

Stuart

[Beard]

I was never going to find a use for them, so I'm glad you did.

[Terry1954]

Lovely job thete, Stuart.

 

You must have quite a collection of racers now.

 

Looking forward to seeing this (perhaps) at Telford, and you of course!

 

T.

[Nick McV]

That looks fantastic. Very sleek and, dare I say it, sexy.

 

Cheers

 

Nick

Edited October 5 by Nick McV

[Wings unlevel]

On 04/10/2025 at 19:12, Courageous said:

I'm calling this done now

Love this! Spectacular result. Thanks for building it here. 👏👏

[Courageous]

On 04/10/2025 at 13:58, Terry1954 said:

Looking forward to seeing this (perhaps) at Telford, and you of course!

Cheers Terry, much appreciated. Including this one, I think I have 14 racers/ speed planes and I may make a feature of them at Telford...and then you can get me a pint.

 

8 hours ago, Nick McV said:

That looks fantastic. Very sleek and, dare I say it, sexy.

Ooh err Nick, sexy you say, very daring indeed, you've made the Hurri blush. Thanks, appreciated.

 

7 hours ago, Wings unlevel said:

Love this! Spectacular result. Thanks for building it here.

Thanks Gerard and thanks for hosting and popping by.

 

Stuart

[Wings unlevel]

11 hours ago, Courageous said:

Thanks Gerard and thanks for hosting and popping by.

Thanks Stuart, I’m really enjoying hosting, and really glad you could take part.