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Italeri 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 by Jay Blakemore

HURRICANE SEASON

D

evotees of the Hawker

Hurricane Mk.1 have

been spoilt of late,

with three1/48 state-of-the-

art kits appearing in quick

succession. The most recent

release is that by Airfix, and it

has already been proclaimed

by some reviewers as the most

accurate model of the type in

any scale. Italeri and Tamiya

have also released newly-tooled

editions of the same aircraft.

All three kits feature finely

engraved panel lines and are

beautifully detailed, but they each

offer slightly different features

to entice the modeller. The Airfix

kit includes two Battle of Britain

colour scheme options, a lavishly

detailed cockpit, and the option

of displaying the fully-detailed,

wing-mounted gun-bays.

The other two kits include an

optional engine, a detailed cockpit,

and a lavish “super decal sheet”,

printed by Cartograph and featuring

six colour scheme options: four

Battle of Britain machines, one

Malta-based aircraft, and one Irish

example. They also include a useful

A5 photographic reference booklet.

Additionally, if you purchase

the Tamiya release you get a

separate decal sheet with a seventh,

Finnish Air Force scheme, and

three standing RAF crew figures.

It certainly seems that there has

been a change in the weather and

that Hurricane season is upon us.

Having lately been embroiled

in a couple of protracted modelling

projects, I decided I wanted

HURRICANE

In the eye of the

18 • APRIL 2018 • SCALE AVIATION MODELLER INTERNATIONAL

BY SACCO DE VRIES

HAWKER HURRICANE MK.

BY JAY BLAKEMORE

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