Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane

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This ones been sitting around for a while, now finished, original thread here:

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/tutorials/9687-flaps.html

It's a Vintage Airfix 1/72 kit, one I built years ago when I was far younger which inspired me to build it in a manner that I would have liked to have built it in way back then.

So it's a straight clean build, no weathering or panel lining, the only thing i've done is posed the flaps and elevator and scrach built the cockpit, as it was literally, nonexistant, it was a seat and base, I made a flight yoke, pilot headrest and seatbelts and detailed the instrument console using dots of clear gloss over matt black to give the appearance of clock faces, sadly it was all for nought as the original idea of modelling canopy open just wasn't going to work, I'd cut it open but it wouldn't sit right then as a result of fiddling it I snapped it down the length, so after about 20 minutes of struggling and trying to glue it in a convincing manner I gave up and closed it up

Anyhow, it had been sitting purely because I had no decals for it, picked some up just recently and accordingly cracked on with it, sadly no underside roundels as it's a revell decal set from a night fighter kit which would have been blacker than a black bag in the dark.

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Amazing work especially on that small of a scale my hats off to you Sir nicely done!Sad about the canopy would've been nice to see all that work

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There is something strangely satisfying about completing an Airfix 1/72nd plane out of the box, or bag!

I know people knock them to death but they still have a charm to me and remind me of the days when I used to get 2/6 pocket money and a series one Airfix 1/72nd kit went up to 2/7. I had to ask for a raise so I could still buy a kit every Saturday. I cut my teeth filling and sanding on models like this!

Lovely model and quite surprising to see the flaps posable.

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There is something strangely satisfying about completing an Airfix 1/72nd plane out of the box, or bag!I know people knock them to death but they still have a charm to me and remind me of the days when I used to get 2/6 pocket money and a series one Airfix 1/72nd kit went up to 2/7. I had to ask for a raise so I could still buy a kit every Saturday. I cut my teeth filling and sanding on models like this!

Lovely model and quite surprising to see the flaps posable.

They weren't until I attacked them with a scribing tool and mercilessly hacked them from their wings, :twisted:

I was curious to see how easy it would be as it's something i'd liketo do on other models, I think it's nice to see some posed control surfaces, same deal with the elevator, scribed until it parted company, cleaned then drilled with a 0.5mm drill bit and posed in place with staples then glued.

Have to say I do like them myself, as very basic as they are but then a big chunk of that was the pocket money, Saturday morning, dash to the papershop and see which warplane I could afford, which was never the large Spit on the top shelf ( I remember being really young and exclaiming with wonder to my dad, 'wow, look dad a Submarine Spitfire' to be told, 'no son, that's Supermarine' and bang went my wonderment of a Spitfire which could fly then suddenly sail secretly under the channel.

Thanks for the kind comments.

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Which reminds me, I must get one of those James May re-inspired 72 Airfix bagged spits next time I pass one in the shop