Hobbycraft 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIc

lawdog114

Member since
February 2012
From: Olmsted Township, Ohio

Posted by lawdog114 on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:50 AM

Coming along nicely. Indeed Aeromaster are the Cadillac of the decal world. I've never had a bad set either. I look forward to the finished plane...

Joe

"Can you fly this plane and land it?...Surely you can't be serious....I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"

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bvallot

Member since
June 2013

Posted by bvallot on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:10 PM

Been watching this one for a while. Glad to see you're almost at the finish. =]

On the bench:

Tamiya F4U-1 Kenneth Walsh

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BrandonK

Member since
June 2014

Posted by BrandonK on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 9:57 AM

I really love the look of the Hawker planes, all of them. I have been following this one but I've failed to comment on it. Forgive me.

I really like what you've done thus far and it really is turning out very nice. Great work. Looking forward to the big reveal when it's complete.

BK

On the bench:

A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!

2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed

14 / 5 / 2

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Saturday, June 27, 2015 9:47 PM

Decals on. Believe it or not, this is the first time I have used Aeromaster decals. I have many sets, but by chance, I've just never used them until now. I have used Eagle Strike and Superscale many times, and I have to say these Aeromasters went on better than either of those brands. VERY impressed.

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:51 AM

And here is the end result. The sample sprue is normal XF-1 flat black, and the underside of the wing obviously my home made "night" brew. While I would have liked it to look maybe just a tad bit more sooty, it is pretty dang close to what I had in mind.

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Monday, June 8, 2015 9:00 PM

After doing alittle reading, I decided to mix my own night color. Made a mixture of roughly 10 parts Tamiya XF-1 flat black to roughly 1 part Tamiya XF-8 flat blue, with a few drops of XF-19 sky gray. It passed the eye test, so I shot a coat on. We'll see how it turns out in a bit.

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BrandonD

Member since
January 2015

Posted by BrandonD on Saturday, June 6, 2015 12:59 AM

I love it!

The Hurricane gets so little love compared to other aircraft, and I really like seeing these come together.

-BD-

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RobGroot4

Member since
June 2013

Posted by RobGroot4 on Friday, June 5, 2015 4:52 PM

Looking great, I am really looking forward to seeing how it looks with the dark bottom.

Groot

"Firing flares while dumping fuel may ruin your day" SH-60B NATOPS

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Toshi

Member since
March 2015
From: Streetsboro, Ohio

Posted by Toshi on Friday, June 5, 2015 4:42 PM

You did justice to this build, especially the camo. Fantastic.

Toshi

On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell

Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi

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gregbale

Member since
March 2003
From: Towson MD

Posted by gregbale on Friday, June 5, 2015 3:55 PM

Very nice build! The camouflage is very convincing.

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."

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stikpusher

Member since
July 2004
From: Sonora Desert

Posted by stikpusher on Friday, June 5, 2015 1:57 AM

Very nice work on the upper camo scheme! Those Hobbycraft Hurricanes do build up nicely! I used Tamiya Semi Gloss Black on mine for the "Night", but mine was in the overall Night scheme.

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

- Plankton

LSM

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Friday, June 5, 2015 1:48 AM

Golly, its been a while. Baseball has really taken up my whole spring. Slowing down alot now, so that means more bench time. When I left off, she was pretty much ready for paint, aside from getting the under wing fuel tanks on and alittle seem work. Here she is all primed up

Tamiya XF 54 was used for the dark sea gray, and Model Master acryl RAF dark green was shot on top of that. Some minor touch ups are needed, but this might be the most satisfied I have been with a camo scheme I've done to date. Still undecided about what I'm going to do with the "night" lower surfaces.

As you can see, it was a BUSY day with the airbrush!

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Clausewitz

Member since
October 2009
From: Turkey

Posted by Clausewitz on Friday, March 27, 2015 2:38 AM

I love watching such a build filled with explanations and illustrated with many in-progress pics. Getting along very well, Can't wait to see more.

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Friday, March 27, 2015 1:43 AM

With the weather finally cooperating and baseball season now underway here in Northeast TN, work on the Hurricane (and everything else for that matter) has slowed to a crawl. Here is where she stands now.

Shot a light coat of primer on the trouble areas to see what i missed. Hopefully will get to shoot some paint on her this weekend.

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:30 AM

So, anyone who works on the same GBs with me much probably knows how much I HATE filling work of gaps/joints. Its the drywall work of modeling (coincidentally, I hate drywall work more than any other home repair work, other than live plumbing of course.) So what I usually end up doing is having a back-log of models stack up once I get them to the filling stage until a day comes that I feel up for it, and then I usually do a group of models at one time.

This Hobbycraft (with alot of dry fitting and careful sanding, of course) fit together very well and only NEEDED filling in one spot. I say needed because I tried to cut out some ejector chutes myself, and it ended up very bad, so I needed to patch those back up. Here is the a shot of the rear wung/fuselage joint work and patched up ejector chutes. With a Spitfire on deck, and a 109E in the hole.

And there were also two tiny sink marks forward of the cockpit. Theses are the only to blemishes I have found in the molding so far.

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antoni

Member since
October 2005
From: UK

Posted by antoni on Monday, March 16, 2015 6:33 PM

The special 'paint' was a mixture of clay and red lead.

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stikpusher

Member since
July 2004
From: Sonora Desert

Posted by stikpusher on Monday, March 16, 2015 4:28 PM

I dont know of paint on the exhausts on the night intruder Hurricanes, but I do know that a glare shield strip of metal was installed to block them from the pilot's line of sight. I used some strip styrene to make them on mine

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

- Plankton

LSM

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Cdn Colin

Member since
January 2012
From: Barrie, Ontario

Posted by Cdn Colin on Monday, March 16, 2015 6:43 AM

I think that paint on the exhaust is more likely to ignite than hide glowing metal. I know they put special exhausts on nightfighting beaufighters and mosquitos. They looked like long spiky tails. Other night aircraft had sheilds over the exhausts. Look at pictures of Merlins on Lancasters.

I build 1/48 scale WW2 fighters.

Have fun.

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lawdog114

Member since
February 2012
From: Olmsted Township, Ohio

Posted by lawdog114 on Monday, March 16, 2015 2:49 AM

I'm a Hurricane fan too and also think it was absolutely beautiful. Furthermore, it was more important than the Spitfire in those dark days of 1940 and was responsible for sending the most NAZI bombers down in flames.

I've built the Hasegawa version, but I never knew Hobbycraft made one. I'll be watching your progress. So far it looks great I love the subject matter.

Your dihedral looks fine to me. I concur with Nathan, it really didn't have any. I'm glad you decided to build for you on this one. Thats what I do.....alot less stress...lol.

Interesting on the exhausts, but I would imagine any paint, no matter how thick, would eventually burn off. I usually just spray my exhausts XF-64 Red Brown then lightly dry brush them silver to simulate the metal...

Joe

"Can you fly this plane and land it?...Surely you can't be serious....I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Sunday, March 15, 2015 10:27 PM

Now maybe you RAF enthusiasts can help me on this, but I have read the English painted the exausts on their night Hurricanes/Spits many thick layers of red paint, to help cut down on the exausts glowing in the dark. Anyone care to comment?

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stikpusher

Member since
July 2004
From: Sonora Desert

Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, March 15, 2015 5:24 PM

This kit builds up nice and easy with no speed bumps or fit issues. I built one, the solid black Night Intruder, for a weekend madness here two years ago here. With plenty of time to spare. It will look like a Hurricane when built, and that is what counts.

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

- Plankton

LSM

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Sunday, March 15, 2015 5:12 PM

Well I got some more work done on the Hurricane in today. First, the IP before I installed it:

Now the wing situation. I decide the best course of action was to attatch the top wing halves first, since the way they attatched was pretty close to correct. Then, I glued on the bottom wing on, but only the center section that sits flat. After that dried, I taped the tip of the wings up, and glued together the tips.

Then it I just brought the middle sections of each wing together. Here is how it turned out.

Here she is with the stabilizers attatched.

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STX440

Member since
November 2014

Posted by STX440 on Friday, March 13, 2015 7:59 PM

Nice start.Looks like you are off to a good start.

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Nathan T

Member since
March 2010
From: MN

Posted by Nathan T on Friday, March 13, 2015 7:23 PM

Just checked my Hasegawa Hurricane kit. Looks like Hobbycraft molded the bottom wing flat for the whole length. This is wrong. The hurricane's wing bottom is completely flat at the wheel wells, then tapers up slightly from the gear attach point out to the tip. The top of the wings are then completely flat across from root to tip. The only fix I see is to cut the bottom wing off at the end of the gear well, then glue it back on with a slight dihedral.

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Friday, March 13, 2015 7:00 PM

Or I might also to find a way to not glue on the wheel well until after the wings are together, and just shim the gap the curvature of the wing will cause at the joint of the top surface of the bottom of the wing and the wheel well box.

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Friday, March 13, 2015 6:57 PM

I have actually used the boiling (well NEARLY boiling) water trick a hand full of times, and it work petty well. But I believe that might not work this time since the flat wheel bays are the source of the problem. Although I may try putting a bkiw drier to the area of the wing directly after the edge of the wheel wells.

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RobGroot4

Member since
June 2013

Posted by RobGroot4 on Friday, March 13, 2015 6:43 PM

I think if you score a little bit on the upper part of the bottom wing at both of the roots it should bend for you. I've also heard mention of something involving boiling water, but I'm not completely certain of the process.

Groot

"Firing flares while dumping fuel may ruin your day" SH-60B NATOPS

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ajd3530

Member since
October 2013

Posted by ajd3530 on Friday, March 13, 2015 4:25 PM

What I was getting at about the dihedral is that the cockpit floor/wheel well box piece, once mated with the botton wing makes it pretty rigid and hard to bend.