My last post for this project was some three plus months ago. Because of obligations at work and in and around the home, plus the holidays and all their madness, my Hurricane languished untouched for quite some time. Now that things have gotten back to a relative normality, I have gotten back to the workbench and my 1/32 Revell Hurricane.
I really love these old Revell kits. Despite their soft and often inaccurate details, they are usually pretty "spot on" in terms of measurement and outline. Sometimes, though, I come across a part that makes me think WTF and wonder what the engineers were looking at. In this case, that part was the exhausts. As I said, I have no idea what the engineers of this kit were looking at, but it was nothing that ever passed gas from an RAF fighter.
The spare parts bin provided a set of early exhausts (courtesy of Hasegawa) that would definitely do the trick. Although I had no intention of displaying the kit engine, I do need it to mount the exhausts and propeller. Of course, some minor surgery was needed. Not only to mount the new exhausts but to correct an engineering glitch that makes the engine sit too high in the fuselage, thus making it impossible for the upper cowl/hood/bonnet to sit flush, A little slicing and dicing and "Voila", I am back in business.
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