Andwil’s Hurricane #2 - Finished

[Andwil]

A tale of two propellers, chapter two.  I had already painted up the kit prop when I realised that my subject, V7795, had a De Havilland  propeller and the kit offering was a Rotol.  A rummage through the spares box yielded a suitable spinner and some blades that are about the right size.  I had to make a backing plate from plastic card and ended up with a passable replacement prop.

 

 

I have also been trying to decide on the colours for this aircraft, I have researched the spaghetti camouflage  and am satisfied that it was aluminium with squiggles of darker colours, I am leaning toward dark green and maybe brown.  I am undecided however on the underside, whether Sky  Blue or Sky Type S.  Would a plane destined for Greece be more likely to have Sky Blue?  I am  currently leaning toward Sky Type S, for no other reason than I have that paint and don’t have Sky Blue.  So unless someone can tell me otherwise that’s what I’ll go with.

 

Thanks for looking

 

AW

[Rabbit Leader]

Sorry Andy, I’m no help with the underside colour although a quick goggle will show up plenty of Corgi examples where they depict their model with a ‘blue’ underside. Might need to delve a little deeper or just take an educated punt and go with Sky. 
Cheers.. Dave 

[Wings unlevel]

2 hours ago, Andwil said:

ended up with a passable replacement prop

More than. Very nicely done. 
 

Good luck with the worms! Whatever you decide I’m looking forward to seeing the paint go down.
 

 

 

[Andwil]

Sky it is then:

 

 

I could not find anything to justify me going out and buying a bottle of sky blue paint.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Wings unlevel]

19 minutes ago, Andwil said:

could not find anything to justify me going out and buying a bottle of sky blue paint

Fair! It’s gone done really nicely.

[Andwil]

Dark earth done today:

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Wings unlevel]

Very tidy

[Andwil]

Moving on to the dark green, I masked off the dark earth areas using @Rabbit Leader’s method of laying masking tape stuck onto clear plastic over a scale plan and tracing the pattern, then cutting out the masks, which gave me this:

 

Thanks for the tip Dave, much easier than the worms and squares of tape method!

 

I then sprayed the green:

 

 

I’ll leave that to cure overnight before removing the masks.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Nick McV]

On 9/10/2025 at 9:23 AM, Andwil said:

The enigmatic Marree Man, 5 kilometres from head to foot, no one knows who made it!

 

Or, I imagine, how!

 

Great progress with the old kit!

[Andwil]

1 hour ago, Nick McV said:

Or, I imagine, how!

One of the theories is that some US service personnel came up from Woomera with a grader and some high tech GPS system, but it’s not really an image you would expect them to make.  It’s also a long way away off the road so I don’t know how you get there to do it.

 

AW

[Rabbit Leader]

Nice to see you giving this method a go Andy. It’s quite effective for hard edged camouflage patterns (which I personally prefer for 1/72 aircraft) but not as effective if you want that sprayed soft edged effect. Horses for courses I suppose. 
Cheers.. Dave 

[Wings unlevel]

3 hours ago, Andwil said:

I’ll leave that to cure overnight before removing the masks

It’s a great technique, isn’t it. I’ve already applied it myself on a smaller scale on my 1/72 build. Looks like the paint has gone down beautifully, and I’m looking forward to the great unmasking!

[Andwil]

Today I very carefully peeled the masking off, with some trepidation as Inoften get bleeding or overspray:

 

 

 

all went very well until the very last piece, which lifted not only the paint, but the primer as well.  Otherwise only a little bit of green bled on the nose so overall I’m happy with the outcome.  I also glued on the tailplanes, which required a little filler.

 

After lunch I fixed up the problem areas:

 

 

Next up will be the spaghetti camouflage on the nose and leading edge.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Beard]

Nice work on the repairs to the paint, it's looking splendid.

[Wings unlevel]

The masking has worked beautifully AW. I’d be very happy with that.

[Rabbit Leader]

Great work AW. What also helps with this method is some large  super sharp scissors and a steady hand. If you’re able to cut the pattern as neatly as possible in one scissor cut, the cleaner your camo mask will be. Keep rotating the tape / plastic whilst keeping the scissors straight, it takes a bit of getting used to, but it’s a bit of fun and you’ll feel like your back doing Grade 3 arts and crafts all over again! 
 

Shame about the paint and primer lifting, but that can be down to almost anything. Good recovery in the end but. 
 

Cheers.. Dave 

[stevehnz]

Nice going with this Andrew & a good recovery on that paint lifting, the down side with acrylics I guess. Very much looking forward to seeing this come to fruition, not long to wait by the look of it.

Steve.

[Andwil]

Some aluminium laid down as the base for the spaghetti camouflage:

 

 

Thanks for looking

 

AW

[Wings unlevel]

This is going to look fantastic.

[Andwil]

Spaghetti camouflage brush painted with more or less random squiggles of dark green and a reddish brown.  I have also painted the exhausts but am not happy with them and will repaint.  I used my usual technique of a metallic base coat followed by dry brushed rust and light grey, only I used a lighter colour (Vallejo oily steel) rather than gun metal and they have turned out too pale.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Wings unlevel]

You’ve unleashed your inner graffiti artist! Love it.

[Andwil]

On 9/29/2025 at 7:13 PM, Wings unlevel said:

You’ve unleashed your inner graffiti artist! Love it.

Maybe I should do something in the 200 Years of Railways GB…..

 

Since the last update I have glossed the Hurricane in preparation for:

 

 

 

 

decals!

 

I used roundels from the DK sheet I purchased for my Hurricane IIC and cobbled the serials together from this sheet and spares.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW

[Wings unlevel]

3 hours ago, Andwil said:

Maybe I should do something in the 200 Years of Railways GB….

🤣🤣

 

The decals have gone down very nicely by the look of it, but that’s no surprise if they’re DK decals. 
 

This is a terrific looking build, AW!

[Beard]

It looks really smart.

[Andwil]

Finished but for the navigation lights and some small touch ups, I’ll get these done tomorrow hopefully then it’ll be off to the gallery.

 

 

I did some light chipping with a silver pencil and some exhaust staining.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

AW