Polish Hurricane UZ-V

Łukasz Gliński
And off we go... 🙂

Andy Ball
wishing you luck!!, and will follow...

Guy Rump
Following with you Lukasz 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome Gents, glad to be able to join you finally 🙂

Maciej Bellos
In!

Łukasz Gliński
I knew it Maciej 😄

Andy Ball
I'll be interested in how you get on with the fuselage cages, hope it goes well!

Thomas Kolb
Yaay! Taking a comfy chair too over here in Sweden.

Łukasz Gliński
Easy guys, have to paint it first. Moving on slowly as this summer is really nice this year.

Alec K
Cool!

Łukasz Gliński
Have to put this on hold for couple of weeks (going for holidays too).

Patryk S.
Following!

Carlos Martin
Following

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome and stay tuned, I plan to continue once I'm back from holidays, around 10th of August

Carlos Martin
Enjoy your holidays! I have just put all the PE in my Hurricane but not sure how much I will do on August, I am also going on holidays soon.

Maciej Bellos
Enjoy your holidays Łukasz!

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks a lot, will do my best 🙂

Mirko Römer
Very good choice, I take a seat

Andy Ball
Have a great break Ł!

Łukasz Gliński
Thank you A 🙂 I'll be Bach in about 2 weeks from now.
Aaaand it doesn't mean I won't be lurking here every now and then...😉

Andy Ball
.....scared....????

Łukasz Gliński
The heatwave is gone for a day and the Yahu reinforcements have arrived. Played some dryfitting today and I think I know what three of you meant, while mentioning the bad fit of the pilots desktop.

Andy Ball
It's certainly a lot less complex than Arma's 6-7 layered affair: just the gyro-compass thingy to add at the bottom?

Guy Rump
I do like your Yahu dashboard, looks better than the Arma one!

Alec K
Nice progress Lukasz 👍

Thomas Kolb
That new dashboard is really nice! My experiences with Yahu are a bit varied, but that one is really sweet. Curious about the fit of the fuselage halve though, isn't it just the rubber band that deforms the the parts a bit, pulling them together on the bottom and creating this gap on the top?

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, Yahu products are impressive indeed 🙂 Do I have to mention they are made in PL?😉
@Thomas, I clamped it on the underside too (metal clamps can be seen in the backgorund) to minimise the effect.
Currently thinking how to squeeze the metal desktop, started from deepening the mounting groove and sanding the dashboard.

Carlos Martin
Really nice dashboard! I did sand the back of the dashboard rather than the grooves in the two halls. I found it easier.

Andy Ball
@Carlos: whatever works!, I think the metal dash was tougher than the plastic.

Łukasz Gliński
I managed to sand it a bt, using my dremellish Lidl tooling. The price was having to glue back two layers of the dashboard 🙂
Currently I'm completing and painting the rest of the cockpit stuff.

Łukasz Gliński
The fight against the cockpit has been finished. Casualties: the rear cockpit wall has wrong angle (this element was too wide for me), some putty was needed behind it and the PE frets on the mid plastic frame are mostly gone.

Thomas Kolb
It looks like you had to struggle quite a lot with the cockpit, but on the pictures it looks really nice! Ah, I know the feeling with the elevator, I almost did that mistake with the rudder of my MiG-15! BTW, that "thing" is the gun sight. That's what Roald Dahl smashed his face into as he was performing a bingo fuel emergency landing in the African desert as a young Hurricane pilot during WW2.

Carlos Martin
Łukasz, I remember the struggle with that part. I had a little gap between the back of the cockpit and the fuselage and I filled it with green stuff. The final result is looking good from here. Also, if you are planning to leave the cockpit open, the rear part of the cockpit is going to cover that area anyway.

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks for your input much appreciated.
I'm still hesitating whether to go for the open or the closed cockpit...
Who the fluff is Roald Dahl? (sorry for being politically unaware😉 )

Thomas Kolb
Open cockpit if you ask me... that new instrument panel is too lovely not to show! Roald Dahl was a British author and screenwriter, his books have sold over a quarter billion copies worldwide. They even have a "Roald Dahl-week" at my youngest daughter's school (it's 'The English School in Göteborg', so that is probably why). Anyway, I recently read his self-biographic novel 'Going Solo', in where he writes about his RAF career, where he flew Hurricanes against the Luftwaffe, well worth a read.

Andy Ball
One of his other works: "Ronald. Because my parents couldn't spell".????... in some respects I'm glad we're all having the same hiccups in this build, it must be the kit and not our skills?

Andy Ball
Oh, and cockpit open...be a crime not to....

Łukasz Gliński
Looked at it after few evenings break and the cockpit walls look too fat for me to leave it open. Looking forward to hearing your say though.

Thomas Kolb
I am sorry but I have to disagree. That seat and the belts looks super.

Mirko Römer
Maybe you can attach some thin lines of sprue, pe or whatever on the inner side walls to replicate the slide rails and break up the evenly high surfaces of the model for a realistic look. With that optical barrier it might be very close to the original layout. With the many struts of the closed canopy the beautiful cockpit work would be lost.

Łukasz Gliński
Primed the thing today, some minor corrections will be necessary anyway.
Regarding the cockpit - masked it the way it's going to remain open. I plan to paint the walls in camo colours as deep on the cockpit edge as I can. While masking the cockpit I broke the gunsight at least 3 times, will add it later.
Fingers crossed I won't break anything inside the cockpit...
PS. Thomas&Andy, I forgot to thank for your explanations about Roald Dahl 👍

Andy Ball
Glad you've gone open....you could open it slightly if you're concerned about wall thickness. (I must confess, I never gave it a second thought), I think the observer's gaze will be directed at the interior and not at 'how thick the fuselage walls are'....

Łukasz Gliński
That's why I decided to fake it a bit, hope the beholders won't notice it the colours should be somewhere else😉

Łukasz Gliński
Started spraying, forgot to take pic of the sky part 🙁

Maciej Bellos
Which colour for the brown did you use? Looks nice. It actually looks like the mud that left standing in the house after the flood in the city 2 weeks ago. We are still trying to recuperate from this sh!t...

Łukasz Gliński
Sad to read that, hope you'll get rid of it soon.
Not sure the Greek soil was an example to create the RAF Dark Earth paint, here imitated by Hataka C009.

Łukasz Gliński
Btw. looked at the canopy bit closer and it's noticeably thick. I have to look for either a vacu replacement or the fancy Airone PE frame I saw in the news lately...

Thomas Kolb
Ah, thick canopies... the curse of the Braille scale.

Łukasz Gliński
That's why I prefer them closed😉

Łukasz Gliński
It turned out I masked the wrong Hurri scheme, so had to wash it. Sprayed the green again, however the left tailside requires more spraying. To be continued...
PS. Airone Hobby canopy frame should be somewhere on the way to my workbench, fingers crossed for Česká pošta 🙂

Andy Ball
Canopy looks a good investment

Łukasz Gliński
Resprayed and wondering: did they paint black stencils on black wing?

Andy Ball
No. White. I have decals from Spitfires that concur.

Łukasz Gliński
Hmmmm, Techmod provided only the black ones. I have to find a solution then, maybe in my sparebox...

Stefan Schacht
nice start, count me in.

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome Stefan, I already started decalling today 😄
@Andy: looks like all AH Hurricanes have black stencils only...
I think I found a solution:
Hawker Hurricane Stencils (Techmod 72071AT, 1:72)

Adam Gudynowski
👍

Łukasz Gliński
Almost there, adding the last details today.

Thomas Kolb
Ooh, that is very nice indeed! A beautiful model! How did you manage the canopy? Is it separate transparent foil under a framing? What transparency did you use?

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, the canopy was an issue, I have to admit. I tried couple of different transparencies, but ended up with cheap sellotape from my wife's desk.
I remember the tapes used to get yellowish over time, so I treated it with UV varnish quite generously, let's see if it helps. After all I'm not sure, what's worse: the vacu canopy or the PE frame😉

Andy Ball
admittedly I have seen white decals on a Spitfire's black undersides (IWM photo).....I just don't understand why you'd have black on black?...build now complete?....

Marek Swiderski
I am on "final aproach" with Airfix 1/48 scale same paint.

Łukasz Gliński
Finished yesterday, but I waited to take the sunny pics this afternoon.
@Mr.A: Who knows? Maybe (like Tauro Model) Techmod wants you to buy more sets? 😄
@Marek: Almost a group build then 😄 Pity, we haven't consulted some details earlier on. Your shading looks great. I usually don't lurk into bigger scale builds in order to avoid envy regarding the detailing😉

Guy Rump
Very nice Lukasz 🙂

Erik De Smet
Well done , Lukasz, haven't you a grass underground to put in front of the hangar? That would be more realistic, I guess.

Łukasz Gliński
Youre getting bored with my hangar, aren't you? 😉
Thank you both. I have grass base, but it's too small and glued to a box (to avoid folding). I even have the Airfix control tower! 😄
But there's not much place in my flat where the sun shines in winter, so I had to use the famous hangar. Or maybe I should buy this set 😉
Control Tower Display Base (Coastal Kits 1200-72, 1:72)

Cuajete
Where was I while you were building this beauty, next to your famous hangar?
Well done, Łukasz!

Is the grass at the base of Coastal printed?

Łukasz Gliński
Gracias my friend. I assume so, having already one of their stands.

Cuajete
You can always cover it with artificial grass to make it look more real😉.

Daniel Klink
Love that Background Building especially

Andy Ball
That low winter light has warmed the colours....,great build....one day we should all display our "unofficial 72nd Hurricane group build" together. Yours is a great credit to the pilot and the machine.

Łukasz Gliński
Thank you A. Wish we could, maybe one day, who knows?
Considering adding couple of pics under white light, maybe my shading efforts will be more prominent?😉

Alec K
Very nicely done Lukasz. The light was particularly great for the hangar pics 👍

Thomas Kolb
Hangar! I still love your shots with the sunlight falling in through the hangar doors, I can imagine it being an early summer morning, with the smell of gasoline and oil.

Łukasz Gliński
Many thanks mates, good to hear you don't want me to get rid of the hangar yet😉

Thomas Kolb
Of course not, this is the Original Hangar!

Łukasz Gliński
Well, seen this one yesterday and I wonder what scale is it? 32nd? 24th? 😄
Maybe I should get one too? 😄
modellversium.de/gal..boeing-737-500-.html

Erik De Smet
Considering the dimensions of a B737 , it could well be the 1/48 version of GPM , Lukasz

Łukasz Gliński
Erik, some grassy pics uploaded, hope you like the original DDR grass found in the attic 🙂

Cuajete
Good result, Łukasz 👍.
Waiting to see the cows graze 😛

Łukasz Gliński
Need to get some, there are only H0 scale sheep somewhere in one of the boxes in my attic😉

Erik De Smet
The Hurricane will feel more comfortable now, but what building are you hiding in the background ?

Łukasz Gliński
That's not-so-famous Airfix Control Tower (not as much as The Hangar):
Control Tower | Project by Woody (1:76)