Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1/trop

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Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1/trop

Post by Dubsy » Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:18 pm

Quite happy with the results on this one. Had a few hitches during construction (among other things, a fan of all things fell onto it, and managed to only damage the aerial with how it landed - close one!), but most of it ended up resolved. Still need to work on my chipping technique a bit. My first time attempting rigging too.
Painted up in the colours of our gallant leader in Number 73.
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As an aside, I found the prop span quite freely, and tried some experiments with long shutter speeds to see if I could spin it and withdraw my hand in time to get a blur. Had a few interesting results, even if the quality of the photo wasn't great.
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Re: Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1/trop

Post by Blondi » Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:22 am

Sucker for an Airfix kit.

Lovely job!
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Re: Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1/trop

Post by Grunt » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:23 pm

Nice one! I made an Airfix Hurri not to long ago, good kit. Mine just didn't turn out nearly as well.
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Re: Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1/trop

Post by ArcEye » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:03 pm

Nice job, I love a Hurri tbh.

My Daughter has requested a Hurri trop painted like Roald dahls after she read Going Solo.

There's hope that one of my kids may like aviation after all
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Post by Dubsy » Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:53 pm

Thanks folks!
Yeah Going Solo is very nice, I'm sure it played no small part in my own interest. Do we have much info on how Dahl's aircraft was painted? I recall some photos in the book, but they weren't great.
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Post by ArcEye » Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:16 pm

Lemsip on youtube did some quite good research on the topic for his going solo videos.

Ofc some artistic license was used as will be the case when I get round to model it
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Re: Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1/trop

Post by Grunt » Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:09 am

Hey Dubsy, how did you do the custom stencils? I tried on mine and well... the results are obvious. The serial number and markings were kinda shit.

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Post by Dubsy » Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:10 am

I start by drawing and cutting the letters out on tape, then apply this and paint.
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This works alright, but there's usually some spill over (would probably be better if I had an airbrush), especially on the smaller serial numbers. The main point is to establish what goes where and get the geometry of the letters right.
Then I touch it up with a fine brush using camo colours to deal with that.
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I was a bit unfortunate on the Hurri in that the grey I originally used for the markings turned out a lot darker compared to the camo than I expected, so I had to go over freehand in a lighter colour later, which hurt the final result a bit.
The story for the squadron leader pennant was similar, though I did freehand a bit more, in particular the slightly crude eagle.
Can't say what I do gives perfect results, but I think it works alright and it's not too hard.
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