Scale aviation modeller international

something quick and simple to

build, and choosing the Italeri

Hurricane seemed to fit the bill.

Moulded in a fairly soft, pale grey

plastic, Italeri’s Hurricane Mk.

comprises just 93 grey parts, nine

clear parts, and a small metal

fret that includes the pilot’s

harness, two canopy handles,

and the instrument panel.

The A5 reference manual

has 35 pages of colour and

monochrome photographs that

include close-ups of such details

as the propellers, exhaust stacks

and intakes, radiator internals,

gun bays, cockpit, and wheel bays.

There are no photographs of the

engine or engine bay though,

which I felt was something of

an oversight, considering that

the kit includes a representation

of the Rolls Royce Merlin.

The A4 instruction booklet

consists of 15 pages of clearly

drawn, black and white

illustrations. Construction

naturally begins with the cockpit

and proceeds through 16 stages

and several sub-stages. There

is a single-page fret map to aid

in part location, and six pages

feature the colour schemes

and decal placement. These

latter pages are also in black

and white, but there are colour

illustrations of the scheme

options in the reference manual.

THE COMING STORM:

AFTERMARKET ACCESSORIES

I seem to be in the habit these days

of trawling the internet looking

for aftermarket goodies for the

kits I have accumulated in my

model stash, and then buying them

without having ascertained if those

kits actually require

them or not (more

money than sense, I hear you cry).

But kit manufacturers these days

seem to be packing more detail

into their newly-tooled releases,

and very often those aftermarket

sets seem superfluous once the kit

parts are examined more closely.

Such was the case with Italeri’s

Hurricane. Upon opening the

nicely illustrated box I discovered

that I had purchased two Aires

sets, one containing a beautifully

detailed resin cockpit and another

containing a very nice single-

piece wheel bay. Lying at the

“THE FINISHED MODEL BUILDS INTO

A FITTING MINIATURE MEMORIAL

TO THE BRAVE YOUNG PILOTS WHO

FLEW THE AIRCRAFT IN ANGER”

KIT DETAILS

TYPE: ITALERI HAWKER HURRICANE MK.

KIT NUMBER: 2705

SCALE: 1/

PARTS COUNT: 102

DECAL OPTIONS: 6

ITEMS USED

AIRES HAWKER HURRICANE MK.1 COCKPIT SET: 4543

AIRES HAWKER HURRICANE WHEEL BAY: 4542

QUICKBOOST HURRICANE EXHAUST: QB

MONTEX MINI MASK: SM

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