Hi all.
Heres my Airfix MK1 Hurricane finished in the markings of Robert Stanford Tuck,257 Sqn RAF,Late 1940. Sprayed with Humbrol enamels,washed with Davey Grey underside,Burnt Umber oils on the top surfaces.Tyres are Xtracolour tyre black,weathering was the old silver pencil and a mixture of pastel chalks for the cordite and exhaust stains.Ariels from smoke coloured invisible thread.
I tried a few new things on this one. I drilled out the exhausts and the machine gun holes.The exhausts were painted in a mixture of alluminium and bronze and then I brushed raw umber pastel dust into the paint while it was still wet.I got this tip from Jean Lucs Texan he showed recently.There was no ariel mast on the rudder in this kit so I drilled it out and attached a small piece of fusewire to replicate one.
The canopy was masked with Scotch tape before spraying the interior colour,then attached and oversprayed with the top coat.
Here are the pics.(not the best quality as the light is very bad today)
Thanks for looking, thanks for the advice over the last few months,and as allways,please feel free to comment,nit pick,,whatever you like.Its all taken onboard and put towards future builds.
Happy Modelling.
Nige









Hopefully there are photos above and not red crosses

Cool looking Hurri Nige. I like the black and white underside. Personally i think you might have overdone the exhaust stains a bit, but it is still a terrific representation of the most rugged British fighter of the war. Sorry Mal the Spitfire may be beautiful, but it ain't in your face like the Hurricane :-) .
Andy (++)
P.S Did you get the pastel dust from an art store ?
EDIT, I have just seen the photo in your gallery and I stand corrected. The exhaust stains are very prominent.

Well apart from a little ragged masking on the starboard side of the nose, there is only 1 thing I can comment on, as it looks pretty damn good to me. That is there seems to be a lack of nav lights in the wing tips, or is it just me?
Nice Hurricane NIge
Andy, I understand what you mean but......................
"You just can't have too many Spitfires"
Mal

HI guys and thanks for the comments.
Andy.
Pastel chalks can be bought from any art suppliers and the cost about £1.50 each but will last for years.Just scrape a bit off the end and dip a brush in it then slowly build up the required stain.
I noticed when doing my research that the stains on Hurricanes seem to flare out just after the last port and are quite prominent so I went for it
Mal,
All the hours Ive spent looking at this plane and I hadnt noticed the masking on the nose.I presume youve got your port and starboard mixed up casue its the port one that looks a bit wavey to me?
Navlights,,well,,,there werent any moulded in so i guess the only thing I could do in future would be to cut/file some out and fabricate them from white.clear glue or something similar.
I really enjoyed building this,,everything I tried seemed to go together without a hitch,bodes well for the future.
Oh yeah,,Andy,,I do intend to finish the 190 with hand sprayed camo,,loads of practice first before I get to the real thing.Had enough fun wrestling with 1/72 photo etched seatbelts so far

Very nice looking Hurricane Nigel. Did you use fishing line for the antenae ?

Thanks Carlos.
The wires are smoke coloured thread,attached with a dab of ca and then heated to stretch them taunt
Nige

Nice finished kit Nigel!
I don't know much about the Hurricane. What is the significance of the black/white markings under the wings? Was this done for identification purposes?
Nice weathering......especially with the silver pencil.

Hermon

Doh, yes of course I ment port
Yes the black port wing (checks and checks again )
is for ID purposes, the reat of the undersides is actually "sky" so this is the scheme used in late 1940. Before "sky" was introduced British aircraft were painted black and white, with the division down the centre of the underfuselage, sometimes the rear fuselage remained in silver. This was to aid ground based observers. Later when sky was introduced this colour combo disapeared. Until "sky" was widely available several colours were used on the underside, light grey, sky blue, eau-de-nil etc. The black port wing was later re-introduced. When we went onto the offensive the underside colour became Medium Sea Grey. (uppersurfaces were then Ocean Grey and Dark Green)
Mal