Hillson slip wing Hawker Hurricane in 1/72

[fastmongrel]

A while back I started a couple of Hurricane kits but rapidly got a bit bored and put them to one side while I worked on other less boring planes (sorry Hurricane fans).

I kept picking them up then they went back below the bench. Till yesterday when I saw a picture of the Hillson slip wing and had a light bulb moment I could bash the kits together to make a slip wing.

Part built hurricane with two bits of scrap plastic white tacked in place to see if I have the measurement right

Chopping the wing to the right shape

Posed

 

[fastmongrel]

Working through my sprue collection looking for bits to make the wing struts

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[Airframes]

Great stuff.
I've seen stamp collections, model collections and kit collections, but a sprue collection ??!!
(it is useful stuff though - and free with every kit ! )

 

[fastmongrel]

I couldn't find anything that looked right so I decided to use 1.2mm Brass rod. So far it's looking good. You can't see where some idiot drilled two holes in the top wing in the wrong place. Isn't filler great

 

[Wurger]

 

[36feet10inches]

Now that's something different!

 

[fastmongrel]

I packed the fuselage gap in top wing with bits of scrap.

Then glued in a piece of 1mm plasticard starting at the trailing edge then letting that set and moved forward gluing a few mm at a time to force the plasticard to conform to aerofoil. Bit of filler and it should be good.

Looking at the photos of the original the too wing has no aelorons or flaps and no panel details as Hill & Son were making wooden wings for Mosquitoes I reckon the top wing is wood so I will sand the wing smooth.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fastmongrel]

The undercarriage doors weren't going to fit without lots of tweaking and filling so I just put some scrap sprue in the wells and smooshed over some kneadatite filler.

Should make a nice smooth surface

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Coming along nicely.

 

[Capt. Vick]

I couldn't agree more

 

[Snautzer01]

Good stuff

 

[fubar57]

Cool subject

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice work on an interesting subject.

 

[fastmongrel]

Always do the first coat of camouflage in a wash so I can easily correct bloopers. Looks terrible until you have at least two coats on.

 

[Crimea_River]

A unique approach.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!