1:48 Hurricane

[ij001]

I love this moving house/hemisphere thing. Found this whilst I was sorting boxes out a few weeks back. Finally got around to opening it last night. Inside I found:

The kit (obviously)
Quickboost drop tanks
Quickboost Hispano Type 2 cannon barrels
Ultracast armoured seat
Ultracast exhausts
Falcon canopy
and the Eduard Zoom set and canopy masks.

And best of all, the cockpit had been sprayed and 80% of the Zoom set had been done :yipee What a result. So just two hours after opening the box I got to this point:

Ready for filling and sanding, hopefully tonight. If you like pictures of 1:48 cockpits (and I know I do), here's what it looked like before I cemented it into place:

Love opening these boxes, just never know what you're going to find. As ever thanks for taking the time to look and happy to answer any questions, comments, suggestions and criticism.

AFN

Ian

 

[moon puppy]

Nice start

 

[Paulw]

Man, I love the Mk II. Good going Ian.

 

[jknaus]

Cool stuff
James

 

[ij001]

Well yes, now that you mention it, it does need a little filler here and there !! :hmmm

Well at least it's ready for undercoating now !!

Ian

 

[ij001]

Fair bit of progress...

After undercoating the whole in Humbrol #78 (RAF cockpit green) earlier in the week, this afternoon, I added some pre-shading:

First I lightly sprayed the panel lines with Tamiya 'Panzer Grey' acrylic, then inside the panels with Tamiya 'Buff'. Then went back, turned the pressure right down and carefully re-defined the panel lines with 'Panzer Grey again and finally outlined the hinge lines with flat black. I'll leave it for a week or so now before starting to lay down the camouflage.

As ever thanks for taking the time to look and/or comment. AFN.

Ian

 

[moon puppy]

 

[jknaus]

I really find it interesting how you pre shade. I have never had any luck at it. Will have to try again after watching this.

James

 

[scorpr2]

I've loved the hurricane since I read a book on the BoB in jr. high! Nice cockpit and pre-shading work!

 

[ij001]

Wow :woohoo: , Look at all this paint I'm spraying around !!

The pre-shading has come-thru far more restrained than I was originally aiming for, but perhaps that's a good thing. Looks good to my eye. More after the weekend.

Ian

 

[moon puppy]

I have never had luck with preshading, guess I go too heavy on the base coat. Post shading works well for me, can always and and take some away.

Looks like you've nailed it Ian

 

[Arturius]

 

[jknaus]

It looks great to me. You can see the shadows nicely. Awesome stuff
James

 

[matrixone]

Ian,
I like the colored pre-shading you have done, on my two builds of Japanese planes I will be doing nearly the same thing with different shades of green and blue on the uppersurfaces.

Matrixone

 

[Adam]

It's looking very nice so far Ian.

 

[SA Dave]

Beautifull work Ian.

 

[ij001]

Moved on some more. No pics yet but the topside camo is just about done now. Pics at the end of the week, I hope.

Ian

 

[ij001]

The Xtracolour Dark Earth was sprayed a few days ago, then masked 48hrs later. This afternoon I made time to go back over the pre-shaded area with a second pass, this time using a dark red-brown for the panel lines and 'Sky' for the centres. Next I'll shoot two thin coats of Xtracolour Dark Green. I'll follow a similar process with the Spitfires in due course.

As ever thanks for taking the time to look, and I'll try to answer all comments, questions and criticism.

AFN

Ian

 

[ij001]

As I mentioned, unexpected afternoon off, so had a 'green day':

Same as the Spitfire, just two thin coats of Xtracolour Dark Green, left in the sunshine to harden for an hour, then unmasked. Stay tuned, there's a couple of 'Falco' pics to come in a minute !!

Ian

 

[Arturius]

Man you're a "Serial Builder"....