A Dutch Orkaan- Part 2

[NARSES2]

Right here we are finished

A Hawker Orkaan Mk I (Metal wing) of the 1.II.1 (1. Ja Va) (First Fighter Squadron) Shipol, The Netherlands, August 1939.

One of the 12 metal winged Hurricanes shipped to the Dutch in August 1939 and unveiled to the Dutch public in its handsome Dutch AF colour scheme at Shipol airport on the 28th August 1939. (see the backstory on the fabric wing build https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=50643.15 for the background to this)

This is the Arma Hobby kit and is very nice, if a little fussy in places with some awkward and chunky sprue gates, finished mainly with Hataka's Dutch WWII AF colours and using transfers from a Special Hobby Fokker D.XXI.

At the end of the day and if you only want to build one Hurricane Mk I and can accept it's a fabric wing version, then I would honestly say go for the Airfix kit unless you really want a later metal winged version. Yes, the Arma kit's detail is finer, but the Airfix kit builds slightly easier, just watch the undercarriage assembly. There isn't much to separate them to be honest.

I have Arma's Mk IIC in the stash and will be building that shortly, so it will be interesting to see how that goes.











Early and late/Fabric and metal

[zenrat]

 

I need to build more Hurricanes.

[Old Wombat]

  

I need to build more Hurricanes.

Everyone needs to build more Hurricanes!

[loupgarou]

Pretty build, Narses.
And thanks for the kit review. I wasn't even aware of the Arma brand...

[PR19_Kit]

Everyone needs to build more Hurricanes!

Absolutely!

And your Orkaan is a thing of wonder in that scheme Chris, it really looks the part. And the 'double' pic most impressive too.

[Wardukw]

Love it Chris   
And we are all in agreement..more Hurricanes needed  and now i want one damn it   

[NARSES2]

Cheers Gents