Hawker Sea Hurricane
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An oldie that requires careful build, particularly around the wings and fuselage joints, canopy and arresting hook areas.
I have just completed a Sea Hurricane and let me post it. This is Arma Hobby's 1/72 Hurricane Ib, portraying one of the aircraft on board the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious during Operation Pedestal, a desperate attempt to transport [...]
The Hurricane Mark II was powered by a Merlin XX and had the wing center sections strengthened. Hawker had experimented with improving the fighter’s armament by fitting cannons. Their first experiments used two 20 mm Oerlikon cannons in [...]
This was a review build for the IPMS USA site, so only included a few pics here. You can see the build review here: (link)
I am really impressed with these Arma Hobby kits. I just scored another for a review build - a P-39N - that I'll [...]
My inspiration for this model was a profile painting in Richard Franks’ The Hawker Hurricane, a truly fantastic compendium of information about the Hurricane. Check out all his exceptional books published by Valiant Press in the [...]
An enjoyable build (for the most part) and one which I will be happy to do again, as I have the standard Hurricane in my stash. Commendable fit except for the interior cockpit framing interfering with the fuselage/ wing joint. Solved by [...]
My second Hurricane build in the past 6 weeks. I’ve been involved on a few different group builds in Facebook since April. One was “The Shelf of Doom” in which I finally completed my recent Sea Fury and Vacuform MBR-2. The other two [...]
1/48 Italeri Sea Hurricane. This is a continuation of my build article published last week on same model.
Fresh off the work bench. I never new much about this kit and did not perform any research on it. My kids wanted to get me a model [...]
This is the current build on my workbench. It is the Italeri boxing of this nicely featured and detailed 1/48 scale aircraft model. I didn't know much about this particular model and performed no research prior to purchase. Basically I [...]