Hurricane MKIa
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28 7 July 2021, 06:05
Robert PodkońskiThis special (done with chalk) marking meant the final total score of the pilots of the "Kosciuszko" squadron 🙂
12 July 2021, 09:37
Gary KitchenThanks Robert. I imagine it's on this aircraft because it was also Witold Urbanowicz' mount too as flight leader I guess.
12 July 2021, 19:55
MarkRegarding camo patterns, the protocol was for even-numbered aircraft to get the "A" pattern and odd-numbered ones to get the "B" pattern.
12 July 2021, 20:18
Robert PodkońskiI suppose so, too, Gary. There is a full scale mock-up (wooden replica) in Poland presented in the museum of Arkady Fiedler, the author of the "Dywizjon 303" ("303 Squadron") book:
fiedler.pl/sub,pl,budowa-hurricanea.html
12 July 2021, 20:27
RuiTuned into your project today to look through the pics again. As I suspected the fuselage decals settled really well into the corrugated channels along the sides. Looks great. I think mine was just a matter of decal age and thickness; they look ok, but just ok and nothing like the nice conformity you have you your hurricane.
31 July 2021, 21:04
Gary KitchenThanks Rui. I'll have to go back and check what brand they were. I don't know much about decals but I use Tamiya Decal softner. Might be a setting solution too. I've slowed a bit as i ran our local junior football tournament last weekend and am camping this weekend. So no time at the bench I'm afraid. 👍
31 July 2021, 21:47
Gary KitchenThanks all for the kind comments and the interest. I still wonder about the tone of the Vallejo Air Dk Brown! Always seems a bit light to me.
20 April 2022, 19:19
