1/48 Airfix Hawker Hurricane 1 Trop
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Here's one I just finished - it's the new tool Airfix kit A05129 built almost out-of-the-box but for resin seat & armour back plate, exhausts and main wheels. It's painted with my own enamels and weathered with chalk pastels and some light washes. The antenna is a special round-section very fine lycra rigging line made for modelling. It's not the best I've ever done, but neither is it my worst and it can have a place on my display shelf.
Hello Eric 
I enjoyed it. It wasn't without little issues but nothing serious. In general, parts fit was excellent. The usual Airfix comment applies in that being a CAD design with very tight tolerances, thick paint layers can cause fit problems in the cockpit in particular.
A piece of the belly needed a little shim with the fuselage side to avoid a messy filling job with the underside of the wing. The undercarriage drag braces on mine were somehow too long which raked the legs too far forward which I didn't notice until I offered up the u/c doors. Shortening them on the model was fiddly but would have been simpler had I test fitted it all first.
All in all, very enjoyable and I'm sure I'll have another at some point. The kit can be built as a standard Battle of Britain Mk1, as a 1 Trop and also comes with a belly for a Sea Hurricane complete with hook.
I enjoyed it. It wasn't without little issues but nothing serious. In general, parts fit was excellent. The usual Airfix comment applies in that being a CAD design with very tight tolerances, thick paint layers can cause fit problems in the cockpit in particular.
A piece of the belly needed a little shim with the fuselage side to avoid a messy filling job with the underside of the wing. The undercarriage drag braces on mine were somehow too long which raked the legs too far forward which I didn't notice until I offered up the u/c doors. Shortening them on the model was fiddly but would have been simpler had I test fitted it all first.
All in all, very enjoyable and I'm sure I'll have another at some point. The kit can be built as a standard Battle of Britain Mk1, as a 1 Trop and also comes with a belly for a Sea Hurricane complete with hook.
This was a Mediterranean Theatre of Operations scheme. It was more or less a standard MTO Dark Earth / Middle Stone over Azure Blue scheme but some had this weird "spaghetti" pattern on the leading edges and nose. Some think it was an in-field attempt to mimic the contemporary Italian schemes in use for deception during head-on attack, but that doesn't seem like it would help much looking back.
Here's the one photo I've found of the real aircraft, taken in Egypt.
http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/uk/raf/hurr...
Here's the one photo I've found of the real aircraft, taken in Egypt.
http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/uk/raf/hurr...
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