**** DONE: GB-45 1/72 Hurricane Mk.I - BoB/Foreign Service

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Hi Tim

yes nice work, I have this kit in my stash to build so your comments and pictures are really helpful. I will keep an eye out on your progress.
At the moment I have a 1/144 scale Avro Vulcan from GHW Great Wall of China!, building her in the white anti flash scheme with the blue steel missile slung underneath.
meanwhile hope the rest goes well.

regards
Perry
isle of Wight
 
Thanks fellas, much appreciated , Happy to help out Perry, lookin forward to seeing some of your work

The rudder pedals are a bit bigger on one side then the other creating a bit of a step which will only show if you put them in the......ahem.....'wrong' way


the 'correct' side look a little chunky so I trimmed off a bit of the 'fat' anyway. Here you can see the difference, not really that important as they are hardly visible once things are buttoned up.



Things installed and painted up, no real drama here.




The radiator fit well and is nicely engineered to be easily painted up.


The alignment holes only needed a slight cleaning out and everything fits very nicely with the radiator being added after things are painted up.


It will be advisable to paint the top of the alignment pegs though when it is installed as they can be seen in the cockpit.

 
Well I haven't been neglecting the kit, I've just been to lazy to downsize and upload the pics

Got the rad in and I'm quit pleased with myself


On ward and forward with the prop, it actually goes together very well, the slot makes sure that everything is line up so no issues there


And then sods law kicks in, chapter 2 section 1a of which states that if there are two or more parts the same, at least one must get mucked up.........so here we are fixing that


Done


Spinner attachment is a bit unique here but I like it and things do go together well


Of course......paint


For whatever reason the back plate only fit into the nose comfortably in one spot with out binding so I marked it out for later


And now we (me, myself, and I, who tend to a lot) are once again dealing with Sods Law, chapter 2 section 1a subsection C paragraph 3......any single unique required bit must be launched into an unknown trajectory which it will maintain for all eternity .......so ingenuity must prevail. One hole drilled


Rather then tempt fate with glue, I hot knifed it once I had it in place and the prop spins freely.


 
Onward and forward So the belts arrived and look pretty decent, only problem is Eduard would have them draped over the back of the seat when they actually come through the hole in the back of the seat The problem is that in order to be correct they need to be folded over and since they are "prepainted" the are only painted on one side. Gotta give them credit though, for all the twisting they went through the paint never flaked off, and they went through A LOT of twisting and bending.........



And then........Sods law........
Good excuse to try out some new paint, I like it so far


Finally, what a struggle




Fuselage is glued together, but everything else is set in place

 
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Time for a bit of an update, I found a part for one of my Hienkels that I lost.......oh.......a long time ago. It was in the box of another kit I just happen to be meandering through because, me So I pulled out the kits and played around a bit.




And then I came back to my senses and put them away for another day and another thread.

The engineering of the tail is something else, you'd really have to work at it to screw up the alignment, not only that you can set the flaps however you want, I looked around and they could be up, down or level, but down seemed to be the most common position so that's what I went with. You can leave them moveable but I decided to glue them in place to hopefully prevent them from being broken.



The one piece vertical plane sits flat on the fuselage and lines up perfectly with the main wings.


Here you can see how the vertical plane slots in both the top and the end.


And everything glued into place.


And before I forget, the engine intake.


Now talk about fiddly, how to clean the mold seam off this tiny clear bit and fit it into the hole without ending it off into orbit, tricky.






I didn't quit turn out the way I'd have liked but close enough.


Wing lights with a dollop of silver inside in the molded in light



A lick of paint under the canopy


This is the worst part of the kit, a thick canopy. It will look *OK* but in my opinion it is a bit to thick hence the reduced fuselage under it.


Time for some paint me thinks.
 
Looking good Tim. Great tip on dealing with the pingy parts. I'm dealing with 8...count em...8 fuel caps on the tip tanks of my last 104. I too have put clear parts of one kit into the box of another. Found them two days before I was going to send Hasegawa some money for replacements.
 
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