**** DONE: 1/48 Hurricane MkI "Willie McKnight" - Defense of Britain/Atlantic.
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Benevolens Magister
Nicely done.
parsifal
Colonel
Looks terrific Andy. Can I ask how you made those terrific looking globes?
Great work so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks everyone.
They actually came that way in the kit. All I had to do was paint the 3 spokes black and for that I just went over them with a black permanent marker.
They actually came that way in the kit. All I had to do was paint the 3 spokes black and for that I just went over them with a black permanent marker.
le_steph40
Senior Master Sergeant
good work !!! 
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Steph.
Work continues to get this thing ready for paint. The fit of the upper cowl was not to my liking so some filling was required. In addition, there was a small chip in the edge of the cowl that needed to be filled and this I did with a small piece of sheet styrene, seen in white.
Before gluing on the windscreen, I had to fix another issue that I didn't catch up to now. The gun sight provided with the kit depicts the later style with the square reflector glass that was not introduced until 1941.
This was a simple fix. I rounded the square base with a scalpel and file and replaced the square reflector glass with an elliptical one cut from a sheet of clear plastic.
The windscreen is now glued on and rescribing is happening at the filled areas. Thanks for looking in.
Work continues to get this thing ready for paint. The fit of the upper cowl was not to my liking so some filling was required. In addition, there was a small chip in the edge of the cowl that needed to be filled and this I did with a small piece of sheet styrene, seen in white.
Before gluing on the windscreen, I had to fix another issue that I didn't catch up to now. The gun sight provided with the kit depicts the later style with the square reflector glass that was not introduced until 1941.
This was a simple fix. I rounded the square base with a scalpel and file and replaced the square reflector glass with an elliptical one cut from a sheet of clear plastic.
The windscreen is now glued on and rescribing is happening at the filled areas. Thanks for looking in.
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Benevolens Magister
Good stuff Andy.
Nicely done so far Andy!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Top drawer stuff Andy.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks guys. Not getting anything done so far this weekend with other priorities taking over.
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Benevolens Magister
Same here - that and a bit of lethargy.
My weekend was a model comp...so no modelling either...
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Got the undersides done today. The Sky area was post shaded to look worn, though hard to see in the pics. The port wing was then masked off and painted black with a dash of white then all was coated in Future and set aside. The props has also been completed though the manufacturer decals are not on the blades.
Cool!
JKim
Senior Master Sergeant
Starting to look like a proper BoB warbird! What was the reason behind the half black undersides on the RAF aircraft during BoB? ID purposes?
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Benevolens Magister
Good stuff Andy.
John, the black port wing came in after the BoB, in November 1940, and was a you say, for I.D. purposes. Before the BoB, up to June 1940, there had been a half black underside scheme.
John, the black port wing came in after the BoB, in November 1940, and was a you say, for I.D. purposes. Before the BoB, up to June 1940, there had been a half black underside scheme.
fubar57
General
Some nice work going on.
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