Airfix 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk I

[Stikpusher]

Even the trucks are not available singly right now. Only the Hurricane is still currently available.
Your Hurricane is coming along beautifully so far! Wise choice to build the internals first and attached to the wing bottom.

[jeaton01]

Lots more progress. Got the wings finished up with all the guns, ammo boxes, and ribs installed, and put the wing tops on. No problems, great fit, well engineered easy assembly. I painted the insides of the fuselage and added on decal, and the instrument panel and forward bulkhead. OMG, I was hoping the designer was a girl because I wanted to kiss them! Then. Oh, No! The wing fit 95% great, except the dear girl has developed an underbite! I'm really not understanding how this has resulted. I wonder if a little material should be removed from the bottom of the front spar in the middle, but the wing halves came together properly and you would think there would be an issue there. It does not look like the wing upper halves are too high, because the wing to fuselage fit over 90% of its length is great. Is the nose just too shallow? I don't know. At this point all there is to do is grind off some material from the location of the engine air intake to where the wing mates with the nose. Color me confused! I went to bed depressed. Luckily the morning had enough real life crap to deal with that I was able to adjust my perspective, get out my mill bastard file, adjust the bite,and continue the build. I have another kit and on it I will explore some alternatives. Sometime in the future.













Here is the only mold defect I have come across up to now.

[mustang1989]

That's a pretty dang cool kit and it's been a loooooooooong time since I've seen that one. Excellent progress so far John.

[Medicman71]

It's looking great John!

[Stikpusher]

So far, so good!

[BlackSheep214]

You've got the color of the wheel wells spot on. What a difference in cockpit assembly compared to my Airfix Hurricane (dated 2005). Inside gear doors should be that same color as well.

[jeaton01]

Thanks. Yep, mine are already painted. Masked the canopies and sprayed the interior green on them this afternoon. That's a nice picture of the wheel wells, thanks for that too.

[jeaton01]

Zooming along again.

The usual free spinning prop. The erks will be mad when I start this thing up while they are doing the gun servicing!


I used Model Master Acryl for the Dark Earth, and Tamiya Dark Green RAF 2.

[BlackSheep214]

Originally, I was going to run with using Testors #1570 Flat Green and Pollyscale U.S TAC Tan. After looking at my test colors on a scrap pallete of various tans and greens, I’ve decided I’m going to run with Model Master 4709 Dark Tan and Model Master 4849 RAF Dark Green for topside and Model Master 4840 RAF Sky Type “S” for the underside

A side note... Once Model Master military line of paint is gone for good, Model Master 4840 RAF Interior Green is a very close match to Tamiya XF-17 Cockpit Green.

[LyleW]

John, that looks reallly good!