**** DONE: 1/48 Hurricane Mk1trop - Aircraft in Foreign Service WWII

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Thanks a lot guys! Got the undercarriage on tonight as well as painting on the nav lights.
 

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It's looking good there Andy.
One thing though - that part behind the radiator is the retractable boarding step. It was linked to the spring-loaded hand hold on the port side (the small rectangular 'panel', shown on the drawing, just aft of the cockpit), and should protrude from the outer edge of the fuselage, at the wing root, when in use.
If the step was extended, the hand hold cover, hinged at the top, would be open. If this was closed, then the step was retracted, flush with the fuselage, apart from a thin handle loop on the base of the step 'stirrup', not included on the kit part.
 

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It's looking good there Andy.
One thing though - that part behind the radiator is the retractable boarding step. It was linked to the spring-loaded hand hold on the port side (the small rectangular 'panel', shown on the drawing, just aft of the cockpit), and should protrude from the outer edge of the fuselage, at the wing root, when in use.
If the step was extended, the hand hold cover, hinged at the top, would be open. If this was closed, then the step was retracted, flush with the fuselage, apart from a thin handle loop on the base of the step 'stirrup', not included on the kit part.

I was not aware of that Terry. Now filed in what's left of the memory bank. Home stretch now Andy.

Geo
 
I think it's the vague instruction sheet drawing Andy. From memory, the instruction sheet on the first issue of the kit, had it shown more clearly. Those were the days when there were also written instructions accompanying the drawings - in illuminated script, written with a quill pen!, by the monks in Halden Place Abbey !
 

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