Spanish Hurricane

[McGreig]

Beautiful rendition and looks even better in 'real life' than a CGI.

Thanks, Mav. And thanks for the profiles, without which this would still be another dust-gathering, half-built kit.  

And thanks to everone else for the positive feedback.   I've never tried a camouflage scheme like this before and I'm quite pleased with the result. With luck it should be finished in the next week or so. And then I can make a start on the Republican MiG-3 and Pe-2 - - -  

[Radish]

Nice      

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

I'm late to this one.... superb work McG, looking forward to seeing it finished.

Ian

[ysi_maniac]

WOW ... absolutely beautiful
         

[McGreig]

The Spanish Hurricane now has the undercarriage and canopy framing added, but still needs varnish and decals. Pictures of the finished article soon, I hope.

In the meantime, I went back to the stash to dig out some more Hurricanes.

First up is a Soviet trainer conversion. This is based on the Airfix MkIIb kit (not the most accurate of Hurricane kits, but I've got a lot of them), and was begun a couple of years ago but got put to one side when I couldn't decide on a source for the windscreens. This problem was solved by the release of the Hobby Boss kit, which includes alternate one piece and two piece canopies.

[McGreig]

The only real whiff aspect to this is the colour scheme. While there is a well known photo of a two seat artillery spotting Hurricane with a rear gun for the observer, I've never seen any photos of the trainer conversions although I've come across a couple of profiles. The profiles suggest that the trainers were left in their original British colours and this is the most likely scenario. However, some lend-lease aircraft were repainted, including some two seat Spitfire conversions, and I thought that I'd apply a bit of artistic licence and finish my trainer in the Soviet two tone grey scheme.

[McGreig]

I'm quite pleased with the result but, if I was starting to build it now, I would put in some more cockpit detail, especially on the sidewalls, rather than just my normal seat straps and generic instrument panels.

[McGreig]

Next is the Omega Models resin kit of the proposed re-engined Soviet version. This would have been powered by the Ash-82 radial and would have got round the problem of essentially sound airframes being unuseable because their Merlin engines were not quite robust enough for Russian conditions.

[McGreig]

The Omega kit is well produced and quite straightforward for a resin and I enjoyed building it - I'd recommend it (apart from  its price, if you buy through Hannants). With luck it'll be finished in time for Telford.

[McGreig]

Finally, another Airfix kit, this time built as a IID, with a Pavla resin filter added. I haven't decided whether this will be real world (I have decals for a Soviet example) or a whiff (possibly Yugoslav, Chinese or Soviet but with a Shturmovik or Normandie Niemen inspired colour scheme)

[Brian da Basher]

Those are some very neat Hurricanes, McG! I'm particularly fond of the Omega one with the Russian engine. I've enver seen anything like that before. Very cool!

Brian da Basher

[Maverick]

Nice stuff McG,

I love the Russki Hurri conversions.  The schemes are really flawlessly done.  Their twin sticks certainly looked something quite different.  Have you seen their re-engined P-40s, also quite different in my opinion.

Regards,

Mav

[Captain Canada]

Awesome ! Great paintwork on that Spanish bird. Gotta pity the poor Rooskies freezing their nuts off flying that trainer...sure looks good, tho ! Love the radial engined bird. First I've seen or heard of that. Sure changes the look of the Hurri tho, eh ? And Hurricanes with big filters like that have always been my favourite....they just look so bloody tough !

Keep up the great work !

Toadman

 

[ysi_maniac]

Love those Hurricanes.

[McGreig]

Thanks guys.

Mav - I agree with you about the Soviet Klimov engined P-40s. I have an LF Resin kit of the two seat version which I'll build after I get over what an idiot I was to buy it in the first place! (It's a nice enough kit but a complete extravagance  :dum:  - all you really need is a fuselage conversion, which could easily be done from scratch, not an entire kit and, to add insult to injury, the LF version is clearly based on the Hasegawa kit! )

Cap C - if you think the trainer's cold, you should see the artillery spotter. Not only open cockpits but also a large rectangular panel cut out (unglazed as far as I can see) from the fuselage underside immediately aft of the wing