Thanks guys. I was up till 2AM the other night watching the Red Sox vs Yankees so last night I was too tired to get anything done. I guess I'm getting to old for consecutive late nights...
The first thing I wanted to do was add the extra Browning .303 machineguns to the wings. For this I used some Evergreen styrene. I cut the them a little long so that I could handle them better. Once secured in place I will cut them down to size and paint.
AUGH!!!!! I had a little bit of a set back last night with the Hurricane when I went to remove the masks after painting the red over the gun ports.
Moving forward I decided it was time to install the prop and spinner
Started to paint the manifold exhausts before installing them. First I applied the rust. After that dries I will follow up with some silver and black to finish it off.
Started the decaling. Here is the sheet and instructions. Lots of options for future builds
Nice work.
The real plane was pulled from a lake a cca. 10 years ago. It was also armed with RS-82 rockets. A good article about rescuing the plane with some history of the plane (it seems that this bird was flown by Safonov), photos and some colour profile work:
Hawker Hurricane IIB 'Trop' Z5252: Hawker Hurricane IIB ?Trop? Z5252