I built this kit for a club display, which take place in November to celebrate the 80th Birthday of the Hawker Hurricane. As a consequence from start to finish it took me just 8 weeks to complete this model, which for me is a real achievement.
The only things I added were an Eduard interior etch set (FE536) - mainly for the seat belts as the interior is almost invisible through the closed canopy - and a set of Aires wheels. The kit went together without any problems and I only used a small amount of filler on the underside aft, wing to fuselage join. I also sanded back the fuselage fabric as I felt it was a little overdone and filled the panel line at the rear of the upper deck as the transition from the timber deck to the fabric fuselage should be a smooth one.
The model was then masked and primed with Tamiya Fine Surface Primer and painted with Gunze H5 Blue, H9 Gold and Games Workshop Mithril Silver. The decals are the ones supplied in the kit and went on beautifully over a gloss coat of Future, which was also used to seal them in as well. However, the Future gloss coat was far to shiny and to tone it down I over sprayed it with a 50/50 mix of Vallejo Gloss and Satin varnish, which gave it much more realistic scale sheen.
This was a really easy and enjoyable kit to build and a nice change from my usual fare of commission builds.
