Scramble! - Airfix Hurricane in a weekend - finished

Well after a little family and inlaws party lunch for our three year old, I snuck in twenty minutes and slapped a Klear/Future Tamiya flat base flat coat, and stuck on the extra bits.

So she is done at 1620hrs Sunday NZT.

Scrambling away from the airfield...





Orbiting waiting for Squadron Leader and rest of red flight...



and hopefully diving in jerry... takka takka takka


I think about 12 hours hands on build time, need to work on the brush painting, the skills are a bit rusty, quite few brush marks, and patches, but I'm really pleased with it, I really needed to do a nice quicky clears the cobwebs, and regenerates the enthusiasm.

Scramble! - Airfix Hurricane in a weekend - 4

Well it's 1115 hours, Sunday Morning here in NZ.

Hurri is on warming up its engine and on the taxi way..

Gave it a gloss coat this morning, and then decalled, and the decals behaved great, a bit of soaking required to get them off the backing, but mostly in register, using Klear/Future to apply them and they are snuggling down nicely over the ribbing and panel lines.

I drybrushed some exhaust stains, and have applied the wing light covers..

clingfim, stuck down with klear/future.

I'll brush some flat coat this evening and then hopefully be able to pop on the last bits.

I'm really enjoying this kit, great scramble.

Scramble! - Airfix Hurricane in a weekend - 3

Paint tonight, its been soooo long since I brushed painted a camo scheme, probably the last time these Humbrol authentics were used...

so since it would have been alomst mmhhhrrmm years ago, I gave them a whizz with the elecrtic paint stirrer.

Sky on first, and had to grab another tin, the paint was drying realy fast, and not very brush friendly..

so I grabbed another Authentics Sky, which was much easier to use. Then black, a test of my free hand lines, not bad, only had a couple of touch ups, not much coffee today so that helped

Top camo on...

oh it was so nice not having to mask, and getting all the colours done in one session. took me right back mmhhhrrmm years ago. Then Duck egg blue fuselage band and Brick red for the exhausts, just like mmhhhrrmm years ago, and a bit of silver on the wing landing lights.

Washed the Jim the pilot and painted the canopy frames, a bit wobbly as eyes getting a bit sleepy. 

Great fun this building like I used to as an eager lad.

Scramble! - Airfix Hurricane in a weekend - 2

Well snuck in a little of painting before I went to bed,

Little Jim got his colours on..

I'll give him a water colour and Klear wash, a flatting and he'll be sorted.

Spinner got painted, and blades snipped, nice fitting, not much to tidy up, just a bit of a step..

 painted up the tailwheel.

Sliced off the plasticard in the wingroots..

 just needed a bit of correction fluid to finish, and the correction fluid used on a couple of sink marks on the nose.

Bit of gapage at the rear of the wing joint, so it was filled with super glue gel..

wheels were painted last night, and this morning once, the rear joint filled a big bit of sprue cemented in for the mount. Also a couple of big sink marks were sorted out, shame about the ribbing, as I lost a bit by the sanding.

A bit of correction fluid for the tailplanes..

and I ran a scriber along the top and bottom of the exhausts..

 they looked too much part of the fuselage to me.

So state of scramble at 1100 hrs Saturday here in NZ.

Sort some lunch out for the kids, then I need to do some weeding in the vegie garden, I don't want to get the airbrush out so it'll be out with the hairy sticks tonight and some Humbrol authentic colours ..

Great fun this..

Tally ho..

Scramble! - Airfix Hurricane in a weekend - 1

Scramble, scramble... over on Hyperscale, Allan Buttrick suggested a quick commerative Battle of Britain build. Build a kit like we used to as lads. so i thought I'd have a go, I need a nice ignore the faults build.

So out to "The Stash" and dig out this Airifx Hurricane..

I have to tweak a couple of things, just can't help myself..

Added some slices of plastic tube as landing lights.

and tried to shape the radiator bath more to my liking,

Nice fitting kit, only real gapage I had was at the wing roots, which I filled with 10thou card, and squishing up with rubber bands. There was two large ejector pin marks on the uderside of the tailplane, but a bit of scraping and sanding and they are gone.

So status after three hours is...

Let it set up, tidy the seams and then some painting.


A fun build.

Happy Fill'n sand