SPA Modeler

Recently i see some good wip of hurricanes but none in the stash.. thinkin to buy the academy or the revell ones but a friend resolved the gap and give me for free this cold old heller kit despite the old mould it's a surprising good kit. Shapes seems correct and fit is good.
I started the kit about two weeks ago but the time to post is really few :(

So the box and sprues first:







clear parts really well done and the opened version works perfect, just a bad step in front of the windscreen that will show after





Cockpit wall are clear of details, some scratch i'll do



Wells are perfect in dept but withouth details



Wings cleared



Glued wings pieces and propeller group



A first way to detail the cockpit, stretched sprue and palstic sheet to simulate rudder pedals basement. Also cut the vertical rudder





A test fitting reveals some correction: IP too long in height and the floor must be deeper



So the solution, also starting to reproduce the cockpit structures





new IP shape



Structuring sides









removed the long gun from wings to help sanding sessions, also make holes for reference



tried a new way for IP instruments, border with copper wire but i sucessfully glued only three of them :( and not perfect work





Structuring the floor that give me the way to glue it to the rest of cockpit, the lond botto rods will used as pins too the seat modified too but not yet finished



Pins housing



test fitting





That's all for now, at the next

That's all!? Wow, that is a lot for such a short time! You are a master.

fantastic as usuall~

Very nice pit work. I look forward to your progress.

Joe

Those old Heller kits are not half bad, shape and fit are often pretty good. They make a perfect canvas for scratch details like you always do!

Re-opening the works after holidays

the finished IP fixed for paint



scratchbuilded the rudder pedals



Painted cockpit with italeri acrilics, primer, green and black and white drybrush











IP finished





After washing painting last details





added seat belts, as usual masking tape and copper wires



say hallo to the cockpit details before to glue fuselage





Closed!



Wings on







details added to the belly radiator



All main pieces on, some putty was needed





details of replaced nose fins



dry time after two layers of thinned humbrol 147, also other pieces was primed



At the next!

Great work BSYamato. One thing, I think those fins on the nose are a bit big. These where flame dampers for the nightfighter version and I think they where a bit smaller.

As reference:







Source:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/hurrireg ... f5589.html

Thank you Borg
Fins already removed yesterday after another modeller advice . Last night another layer of primer and this afternoon starting the tropical RAF scheme , a friend will send decals for a daytime desert version of hurricane and also italian decals for this



get recently the revell kit but only decals for german , french and holland version :(

You are welcome BSYamato! RAF tropical? Interesting scheme!

I did not even know that Italy also used/uses the Atlantic. It has been a very unremarkable plane in Dutch use. Three of the nine crashed and this spurred the purchase of the P-3 to replace the rest of the Neptunes instead of buying more Alantics.

Lol just found an hasegawa P-3 Orion and academy catalana at low price
Soon updates, the desert Camo almost done