Hi folks,

Just thought I'd share some pics of my 1/72 Academy Hurricane Mk IIC with you folks. It's a OOB build, except for the antenna stuff.



More pics can be found at http://photos.yahoo.com/shekarkr . Go to the Aircraft->WWII->Hurricane folder.

BTW, I apologize for the grains in the pics, which were taken indoors with a Handycam. Better pics to follow later, once I do so with my ol' trusted SLR!

Cheers,
BP.

looks nice,don't like to do 1/72 myself but,this makes me wanna try some more of 1/72!

Looks good to me BP. Nice camo.

Two things stand out to me though and this may be due to image quality.

1. The stbd landing gear looks toed in.
2. The antennae wire looks thick for 1/72 scale.

Keep up the good work.

Looks great BP, personally prefer 1:48. Antenna looks good too.
Well Done

:-) Nice looking Hurricane BP, what do you use for the antenna wire?
Mal

I think it looks good, well done construction and finishing.
I am used to 1/48 scale and am trying to adjust my eye on the antenna. Couple of suggestions for small scale antenna material

1. - Thread froma pair of pantyhose (get an old pair that's been thrown out first )
2. - Sheathing wire inside a co-ax cable - the kind you hook your TV up to for cable TV in the US.
3. - Inside wires of a computer mouse - CAT5 network cable, electrical cabeling harness from various appliances.

Looks good - keep up the good work.

Your Hurricane looks great Bytepilot..... :-) You done a nice job on the camo....

Hi everybody,

Thanks for your kind words !

As for the antenna wire, it looks kinda thick, only in the photograph, b'cos of the angle at which it was taken, and the subsequent tinkering in Photoshop. This seems to have made it look thicker than it really is! I measured it using my slide callipers, and the diameter is just around the 0.45 mm mark, which looks pretty small to me ! A Side shot, at the Yahoo! photos link should show it up better.

Oh BTW, Holdfast, the antenna wire is made out of good ol' stretched sprue. Cut out a thick section from the Hurri tree of length abt 3-4 cm, and heated and dragged out for about 1 metre length. Got about 75 cm of thin stretched sprue, plenty left over for other 1/72 planes too, so I rolled the spare around an old sewing machine bobbin for use later .


Anyway, as I said, I'm planning to take snaps in my SLR laterz after I finish my Ju 88 A-4 for the Luftwaffe build, and it should come out well then, I hope!

The camo was done using my usual whatzit-for-all-occasions : 3M tape! Weathering does look slightly overdone, but I wanted a heavily used a/c anyway!

Hope you enjoyed my contribution. Watch out for more pics later...

Cheerio, and take care,
BP.

Looks great bp :-)

wow looks great, dont know how people work with parts that small, you did a great job

Bender

Hi folks,

Ths pics from my Nikon are in, and I've uploaded them to my Yahoo photos link.

Pls take a look and let me know ....

Link:
Yahoo photos link

Cheers,
BP.

:-) The better quality pics do better justice to it, nice one BP
Mal