Hasegawa 1/48 Hurricane IIc - G-AMAU

[craig]

First model finished for the year. Hasegawa kit with Eduard seatbelts and Ultracast main wheel well (I wasn't keen to try and remove 12 very visible ejector pin marks). Kit decals and Gunze acrylics. Filled starboard wing leading edge landing light, and added clear tail light. Whip antenna on spine and extra rods in radiator from copper wire.













Finished as she appeared for the 1951 Cup Race which was cancelled. This aircraft went on to be Hawker's in-house chase plane for the P1127, which would later become the Harrier.

[bubblehead]

Very nice. Your typical clean build.

[kyrre]

Amazing how you've managed to give life to a relatively simple paintjob, without going all Spanish on us. Nice.

K

[Mofo]

Yup. I dig it.

[paolo6691]

Nice plane, very nice smooth glossy finish

[Cap'n Wannabe]

Can't believe I haven't replied to this!
Nice job! What colour blue did you use? I'm doing it as #41 in 1/72 at the moment.
There are four schemes I'm aware of in the blue (I'm planning to do them all..)
#41 and #99, which are boxed by Hasegawa in 1/48. Lifelike decals also do aftermarket decals in 1/48 and 1/72.
There's a third numbered scheme, #76, with decals available from Flying Papas (I'm not convinced of their accuracy - I have read that the registration was white, not gold, for this scheme) and a scheme with no numbers.
www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5546364813/

[timmay]

Beautimous! Truly spiffy. Best version I have seen of this. Timmay!

[craig]

Thanks for the replies. She managed a 2nd in 1/48 Props at the recent IPMS NZ Nationals. Beaten by a very beautifully built and painted Hasegawa 1/48 Ki46.

For the blue, I used a Gunze acrylic, but unfortunately, the bottle no longer has a label on it. I believe it was H322, but I can confirm it was the blue included in the old Gunze Blue Impulse bottle set of acrylics.