Okay... so it isn't, what you gonna do?

Recently, I've been a bit inundated with railway modelling which is good, but I felt the need to do something else. Hence I remember as a student I bought a shed load of kits which I had left in the loft! Unfortunatly some of them (although unbuilt) and lost some parts which is a shame as I'd really like to do them. You never know... one day I might get the bits to finish a few off.

Anyway back in the saddle I felt I should have a crack at one of my favourite aeroplanes of all time from one of my favourite kit manufactuers of all time, in one of my favourite scales of all time. The Airfix, 1/72nd scale, Hawker Hurricane Mk1

The kit itself is very simple and rather enjoyable to build. I would suggest to anyone taking a first time crack at an aeroplane kit take a seriously look at getting this or their spitfire kit.

I tend to not like using alot of after market stuff and refrained to keep near enough all of the kit together.

I also want the control surface to repositions which involved alot of scoring along the think (but easy to cut through) plastic

I crafted a simple interior from plasticard, rod and strip and painted it up.

The flaps were given plastic strip ribs and painte dinterior green like the cockpit.

Putting the model together revealed some areas to been filled with miliput which wasn't too hard a task.

The propeller and undercarriage were painted and assembled next.

Unfortunatly when I came to sanding it down I lost some of the detail with it being raised (I wasn't too bothered by this detail error, unlike other modellers) but overall it wasn't a big issue.

I love the Black/Sky undersurfaces which was surprisingly easy to do as well with the help of tamiya masking tape. The paint job all around wasn't too great but I'm not planning to take it to a show... this was followed by the camouflage upper surfaces.

I hand painted the cockpit (removing stray paint with a cocktail stick once dry and added the kits decals (which aren't great but will do)

I drew the panel lines on with a pencil and I painted used ammo ports

after this I varnished the model before they the ports dried with actually worked out because the streaking added to the weathering.

The whole thing was finally put assembled before weathering which included dry brushing dark stains around the exhaust, gun barrels and radiator. Finally silver paint chips were applied with a cocktail stick.

Nearly all the paints I used were hunbrol and so far, I'm quite happy with it... train stuff will follow soon