Hawker Hurricane
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Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.I early
This is the new Hawker Hurricane Mk.I by Airfix. I added a ring and bead gun sight, made out of twist tie wire, as well as the pitot tubes made of the same wire.
I also added Quickboost exhausts, and CMK five spoke wheels
Decals are Iliad [...]
Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1
This is the old tooling of Airfix's Mk 1 Hurricane. I chose to model it "in flight" and mounted the aircraft on a clear plastic pole. The base is a fence post top covered with model railroad static grass. Mostly the kit was built [...]
More Battle of Britain Builds
Here are some photos from the first four parts of my series on the Battle of Britain which has been running this year in Model Airplane International. I have now finished all the builds and there is still the December issue of the magazine [...]
Airfix 1/72 Hurricane I "ragwing" – early and standard
The Hawker Hurricane was the first monoplane fighter adopted by the Royal Air Force since the Bristol M.1C Scout of World War I, and was also the first fighter in RAF service capable of exceeding 300 m.p.h. The airplane was evolutionary, [...]
1/72 Revell Hurricane Mk.XII
This model started off as the Revell 1/72 scale Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIb, but I added a few things to convert it into a Canada Car and Foundry Hurricane Mk.XII, as used by 135 Squadron RCAF, on the west coast.
The engine front and propeller [...]
Airfix 1/48 Hurricane I (trop)
Following the success of the Battle of Britain, the RAF could allow the Hurricane to be sent to other theaters. The defense of Malta had been so important that a squadron had been diverted to that island at the height of the Battle of [...]
to exhaustion….
Missed Battle of Britain Day by one, but I dredged up this OLD build, and attempt to create a scene. Hasegawa 1/48 Hurricane, 303 (Polish) squadron decals. Wow 75 years, salute to all who persevered through it, military and civilian.
1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Hurricane Mk.1a, RAF, Squadron 151 (American Eagle), Pilot Flight Officer J.Havilland, Digby, October 1940.
1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Hurricane Mk.1a,
RAF, Squadron 151 (American Eagle),
Pilot Flight Officer J.Havilland, Digby, October 1940.
Airfix 1/48 Sea Hurricane Ib
The Fleet Air Arm suffered in the early years of the war for the lack of a carrier‑based fighter that had performance sufficient to face the land‑based Axis air forces on any basis of equality. This was nowhere more apparent than in [...]
Review: Airfix 1/48 Hurricane I
First appearing in 1935, the Hawker Hurricane was the first modern monoplane fighter to equip the RAF, and was one of only three RAF aircraft to operate in first-line service from the first day of the Second World War to the last. (The [...]
