Hi Les
while Gaston pontificates about the front edge of the wheelwell, there are A LOT more errors in the Italeri kit...the more I look, the more I find.
OK, I'm a Hurricane anorak, but, if Italeri had invested in a set of AL Bentley's plans there would not be this list.
I'm glad I looked at this again, as I need to check the fin leading edge out as well.
OK, here we go
here's a list of correction for the Italeri kit I have compiled ...
The Italeri hurricane is a mixed bag, overall it's well shaped, but has a load of stupid mistakes that really should not have been made.
Two items that stand out in need to replacement/work, the Prop, and the wheels
props, the DH type I think is unsalvageable, the Rotol could be corrected.
use DH back plate, cut Rotol back at base by approx 1mm until fits the DH backplate. Reshape spinner.
Quickboost do a replacement DH type, but I not examined it. The Airfix and Ark kits both have options of different props, the Rotol ones from these can be used, though the overall diameter of the rotol blades needs reducing. They also have the early Spitfire type included, as fitted to some early planes. The Ark kit also has the longer Hurricane Rotol which was retrofitted to MkI's later on.
[for example, the Hendon MkI has the later type rotol and MkII type tailwheel fitted from it's days in Training command]
Wheels, They really cocked up adding 3 spoke wheels, as that's something I've [u]never[/u] seen on a Hurricane!
Real shame as the 5 spoke are used on the early production, all fabric wing and a lot of early metal....[Classic Airframes missed this too, so kit that had 4 and 5 spoke would have been a real boon.]
The wheels don't look quite right. The 4 spoke wheel hubs might be salvageable, if you remove the moulded 'rim' on the tyre they look useable.
[the Hasegawa wheels are wrong too by the way...hubs are too small.]
The 'best' replacement wheels I've seen are the True Details ones, but they need the overdone weight bulges reducing.
The ones from Brengun look pretty good but not seen in personally.
tail wheel too high, with no hole for it.
gun ports too high in front of wing,
fabric overlapping metal on tailplane, by this I mean the tailplane fillets are metal fairings, the fin fabric juts out above this! This will require building up the fillets.
fantasy fasteners/rivets on wing panels. [just wrong, do not exist]
no wing walkway plates, but provided as decals.
Underwing shell ejector ports look too short and one is wrongly placed, the real ones are not symmetrical, the kits one are. Funnily enough the painting guide shows the correct layout!!!
I knew there was something funnty about the upperwing gun access panels
Eventually i got around to resetting up my scanner, propped the wing up so it was flat in relation to the scanner bed, and then overlaid it on the Bentley drawings in a graphics program
Bentley panel lines black, Italeri white...
oh dear. Weirdly enough it's not that horrible seen in isolation, though it just looked wrong on closer inspection. Doing this shows why!
Note also the mismatched root panels and the too wide aileron.
the landing light when viewed from the front have side that are at right angles to the ground, but they should be at right angles to the wing.
I think the gun muzzle ports are little to high in the wing leading edge, I'm not certain, but something here looks funny.
Given the nature of them it's not going to be much more work moving them down.
The wheel well lacks detail, as do the inside of the gear doors.
there is a 'bumped up' panel line on the access panel above the front wing root.
curved corners on the small rectangular 2nd fabric panel on the starboard side.
a cockpit floor!
wrong shaped control column grip.
there are build reports that the open engine panels do fit well in the closed position, though I think that they just require careful fitting from inside, possibly with added plastic card tabs.
I should say I have only test fitted the kit, and when I do get around to building it other issues may arise.
I've seen a few OOB builds on Britmodller and gone 'eh' at the upper wing roundel position, this being being too far outboard.
A look at the decal placement guide shows why!
Ironically the correct info is in the booklet!
Underwing can be seen on page 7, upperwing on page 9 and page 30, the MkI at the RAF museum.
OK, this may seem to be nitpicking, but if it was a Spitfire...
Pretty much everything is easily correctable with some modelling skill for for a kit with a RRP of 30 GBP it's a bit much.
Noe, the hasegawa kit, while mostly very good has one glaring flaw, the fabric covred side access panels.
To save cluttering up this thread, please see here
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234934849-classic-airframes-hurricane-worth-getting/#entry1241894for more information and comparison pictures of this problem.
The big problem is correcting this one, or correcting it easily
Hope of interest to folks here
T
