Kallisti Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) Here are two aircraft I'm using in a Battle of Britain diorama I'm in the process of putting together. This is supposed to illustrate one particular day, 10th Sept 1940 when Hurricane equipped 501 Squadron was leaving RAF Gravesend (just down the road from where I went to school) and Spitfire equipped 66 Squadron were arriving, so for one day Spits and Hurries shared the same field! The Hurricane is a Hasegawa I got from eBay (not cheap sadly) and the Spit is a Tamiya. I've used PE seat belts in the Spit and the Eduard cockpit set for the Hurricane. When these photos were taken I hadn't fully matted the paintwork down and the Hurricane had its weathering added afterwards. The last photo shows some of the components of the diorama, but more is being added, for example a Standard Tilly from Accurate Armour has just been completed and there will be some more figures and items such as wheel chocks added. I'm looking at scratch building a starter accumulator as well since there doesn't seem to be a readily available one in 1:48 scale (the old Revell set being virtually impossible to source!) This is my first posting here so please be gentle with me Edited September 8, 2011 by Kallisti 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Nice looking pair, like the diorama you've done with them. Welcome to BM, look forward to seeing more of your work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousDFB1 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Great line up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey58 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 They look really good,well done!I'm looking forward to seeing your diorama.Matador Models do a resin/white metal acc trolley in 1/48th.I don't know if they are still going as I couldn't get hold of them recently so made my own too.But if you can track one down,they are great little models. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Thanks for that info Mike, I found their site and the starter trolly... now I just need to work out how to order it from their site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey58 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) Hi Kallisti, I'm not sure the are still going.I tried to order one a couple of months ago and got no luck.The only phone number is a fax line,so I wrote to them and got no reply.I know that Relish Models are hoping to have trolleys made but I think that's some way in the future.I ended up making one from scratch using a Matador one as a guide.If you're after anymore figures,can I suggest you have a look at Dartmoor Military Models and CMK at Hannants-some really great figures from both of these. Eduard do some too but they have really strange poses! Mike Edited April 18, 2011 by Mikey58 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royster Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 That looks great. Must do a hurri soon.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbuna Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Looking very nice...great when a bit of history is attached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 I've got the Eduard figures - both the Pilots set and ground crew set and yes they are a bit odd. You can see one of them with the oil can on the Hurricane's wing. I've been looking at the others to see what I can do with them. Should be possible to do something. The rest including the red setter, needless to say, are form the great ICM set. I've written to Matador now so we'll see what happens. I've got several photos of starter trolleys and some blueprints I found somewhere that shows the sizes, so it'll just be a matter of finding the time and patience to bash one together! @Royster: the choice in 1:48 scale for a Hurricane is severely limited. Either you go for an old Airfix kit with raised panel lines and not very good detail or you shell out a PACKET for an old out of production Hasegawa kit which is a lovely kit and the Eduard PE cockpit just adds to the goodness. But its usually very expensive on evilBay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Lovely work, I'm becoming an even greater fan of wartime Hawkers these days. you certainly don't need anyone to be gentle with you The figures make a huge difference, it'll be a great diorama ( I want to pat the doggie too, mad ain't I?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey58 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 There are two other 1/48 Hurricanes,one is from ARK and the other I can't remember the make now but it's a snap together kit-quite a good one too I according to reviews.The ARK kit is a mix of the Hasegawa and Airfix-lots of detail but crap moulding (I've just made one). Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeenyus Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Very nice builds, and a good idea for the diorama too. It will be nice to see the aircraft together for once!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 Some progress... Baseboard has been landscaped with Hydrocal and Claycrete and grass added: The edges are a bit scrappy so will need some cleaning up but everythign is still drying. So after that I couldn't resist a test fitting Looking at the photos again, I think I've overdone the soil in the crater so thats going to have to come out, but I'm pleased with the way the crater appears. Knowing the land around Gravesend as well as I do having grown up there, its a clay-based soil over chalk, so I kept the colours more orchre than brown as that is the soil that tends to show up. Where I lived we were surrounded by chalk quarries so you got to know what the topsoil looked like and since I'm also interested in Geology (part for my degree contained some Geophysics and Geology) I wanted to get things looking right. So once it was all dry, I gave the crater a dark wash with darkened raw umber paint, then built up layers of colour, lightening until the highlights were "damp" brushed with white artists acrylic. I call it damp brushing as the brush technique was the same as used for dry brushing but the brush had more paint on it that usual for dry brushing. I still want to add more figures - we have no pilots for instance, plus some more tools, wheel chocks and most importantly that starter accumulator. I've got some fuel drums as well but I'm not sure how appropriate they'd be in an airfield setting. I would have expected there to have been a refuelling truck available. Maybe later when I'm feeling more solvent I might invest in one of the Accurate Armour refuelling trucks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moofles Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 well done, they really look the part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Nice diorama. I like the crater and I don't think it's overdone. But then again you're the local Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbuna Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasicModelling Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Nice.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted June 25, 2011 Author Share Posted June 25, 2011 So finally I've returned to this subject and completed things. Figures have been added including pilots and ground crew and dog! They are from our old friend the ICM RAF groud crew set, but I've added a couple from the Eduard RAF crew. These are not as well moulded as the ICM figures but add a nice variation. The ground has been muddied and oiled up to represent the wear and tear on the airfield. Click Here for the full size image Click Here for the full size image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasicModelling Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Looking great.... Nice to see it completed!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Photos of the real R6800, LZ-N are here. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234961064-spitfire-r6800-lz-n-gravesend-1940-black-replacement-port-gun-access-panels/ with a link to this thread. Sorry, full blown Hurricane anorak warning.... Your Hurricane above has the wrong prop [unless you have a pic] , with the later 'bullet' rotol, coming into service at the end of the BoB, The roundels are to far out on the wings [there is a specified distance, centred at 2/3 out from fuselage IIRC, the Ducimus monograph has the roundel centre being 80 inches in from the tip, 1 and 2/3rd inch or 42.3 mm in 1/48th - this goes for all Hurricanes with standard 49" roundels AFAIK] The inside of the gear doors [and wheel well] are grey-green, they should be painted aluminium, and the cockpit tubing and seat as well, actually everywhere [engine bay, gun bay apart from the cockpit walls and backplate. There have been threads here on this, and the preserved Finnish and a couple of Russian wrecks all have this, later [1942 maybe] there was a switch to grey-green eg - http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234958668-classic-airframes-hurricane-mk-1-fabric-wing/#entry1614956 I've only learned this in the last few years, and more bits of info come up while searching. Hope of use to others even if a bit late here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bordfunker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Great looking the duo, and I like the idea of a local connection. Very cool. Karl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Thanks, blimey I'd forgotten this was my first post on BM... lot of water (and other stuff) under the bridge since then! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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