I, like
I suppose everyone else, have favorite aircraft. Eurofighter, A-4, Spitfire,
Corsair. One of my main projects is the Hawker Hurricane. Tonight I am
presenting the 23rd completed model of this type in my collection.
Although
I love the new Airfix ragwing Hurricane, markings options are fairly limited. I
do have a couple of metal wing conversion sets so I should be able to expand on
the early types. This particular model is of the 2c. I’ve been informally working
my way through the foreign users, and this one is from the Egyptian Air Force.
It uses
the Revell kit, which I find to be a nice buildable example. The one weakness
the kit has, and you can see that I ran afoul of it on this particular model,
is that the four guns on the wing leading edge are extremely fragile. I
typically knock more than one of the guns off during the life of a Revell
Hurricane and this was no exception. The difference this time was that it
happened after the painting stage, and I honestly don’t know when it detached
from the wing. I did a thorough search on the workbench and floor, but no luck.
The Carpet Monster is probably sneering at me.
Being a
kit I have built many times before, there wasn’t much out of the ordinary
during construction. Paint was in desert colors (Dark Earth, Middle Stone,
Azure Blue) with the slight variation that, while most of the RAF desert planes
have red spinners, this Egyptian example had one painted up in Sky. The decals
came from Kits World 72144, an all-Hurricane sheet. It is likely my next
Hurricane will come from this sheet as well; if I had to guess, I would say it
will be the Free French version.
With the
exception of the missing gun, this one came out well enough. Not my best, not
my worst, which is after all where most models end up. And you’ll see that late
devastating errors are not that uncommon on the 72 Land production line.
Looking at you, Starship.
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