Hurricane IID Trop I/24 Trumpeter

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This kit reminds me of the the tank busting Stuka - love it!

I’ve always wanted to build this plane in 1/24 and due to luck and impulse buying picked one up for 89CDN.

While they improved the Merlin repro on this kit, it is still way out. I built the Spitfire by Trumpeter for my dad a few years ago as a ‘going away present,’ and had to remove the massive flanges around the Merlin’s oil pan and countersink the bolt recesses. It looked alot better.

The improved Merlin is stil a piece of trebuchet ammo though, the top half of the engine is passable, but the bottom half is still a huge wide rectangle and the cylinder blocks have flat sides. The lower crank case unit is 40% too large.

Not worth super detailing.

While it comes with clear plastic covers, you’ll never see all of the detail inside the engine or behind the fire-wall. (I’m not an aeronautical engineer, but when you see that big red gas can in front of the pilot’s face, you know why England became a world leader in plastic surgery.)

I’ve complained a number of times that I can’t use my airbrushes, so I started the project by brush-painting the primer inside the fuselage and cockpit.

I used Humbrol 78 Matt as the interior primer, but I’m open for advice. I still have the wheel wells and gun bays to paint, and would be happy to re-do the entire fuselage. Hey, keeps me occupied.

The clear instrument panel has fogged/micro scratched dial on BOTH sides, and I didn’t want to drill them out to allow the film detail to show through. I will do that, but even with the loupe I’m not sure it will make a difference, again anyone who has an opinion please let me know.

I’m thinking of leaving the tops of the wings unglued because it would be nice to see the cannons and MGs.

If anyone has a canopy masking solution I am asking, for sure.

If I get a bit of time off I should have the persnickity stuff done by January.

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I’ve complained a number of times that I can’t use my airbrushes, so I started the project by brush-painting the primer inside the fuselage and cockpit.

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Why cant you use your airbrushes? Fumes? If so , you can make yourself a spray booth for less than 50 bucks...made mine from a piece of plywood for a base, 4 pieces of lexan I had lying around and I bought a little bathroom exhaust fan and hose ( the most expensive part at around $20). All ya needis a window to stick the hose out of and youre good.

Not fumes? Then forget everything above…[:D]

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troublemaker66;

Hey you’re right on the money, fumes…

but not for me, for my ailing MIL, she swears she can smell them inspite of my 400CFM hood.

Actually, as a son-in-law, you know that if she finds out I’m painting with brushes, that’ll rock her world.

I wish I had taken those Flintstones episodes more seriously [:O][:|]

Thanks for the FH construction idea, I’ve been using cardboard, maybe its time to upgrade!

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I just picked up a Mk.I, and got montex paint masks. The set has masks for the national markings (finnish in this case) and canopy masks, both for the outside and the inside.

http://www.montex-mask.com/html/news_en.htm

Michael

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Thanks for that Michael, I’m all over it.

So last night I was putting tiny drops of Future into the instrument dials and knocked over the bottle onto my workspace.

As my reflexes over reacted, I shaved all of the tiny parts off the leftside fight control panel, never to be seen again.

I was hoping they might be stuck to the 12 sheets of bounty towels i used to clean it all up with. No Joy!!!

Inspite of that, I managed to get the three parts of the instrument panel into decent shape.

I saw a thread here and the guy’s instrument panels were awesome.

Sorry no pics yet, i shattered my camera on the pavement, a 6-G whip smash, so maybe Santa will get me back in shape for the new year.

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I drilled out the 'film sheet," and drilled out the exhaust manifolds, three hours.

I finished the instrument panel with Future, but had to drill the far right ‘horizon’ instrument- way too corrupted.

I’m gonna get the Airfix version of this kit, way way better engine.

taped up the weapons box, and de-flashed the cockpit cage- gosh, 16 surfaces to de-flash, per side.

Trumpeter Merlin engine? You kidding me?

As a detail suck, i just hate abandoning that cheap trick plastic piece o’ coyote snot wiped off on a garbage can in Los Angeles while the hoodies were drivin’ by and singing ‘I jus luv been a g’sta’ then the aliens landed and found out the hoodies had a great stash of puddies…[:(DD]

Please, i want to wake up and find out it was evaporated over night, natural causes, Maybe someone used it to catch a big tuna fish…

There is no exhaust system on the Trumpeter 1/24, from 20 feet away, that’s all they care about. Hey, the rest of the kit is pretty snag, so far, i just like venting about L.A. puddies…

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Spent the rest of Sunday the exhaust ports I drilled out, all 6 of them. Not sure I can reproduce the those pipes exactly, but at least they are now hollow and look reasonable at 6 feet.

Still wish someone would take it and use it as fish bait though. Still working on the photo bucket.

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Glacier jockey, I managed to glue together some stabilizers, falling over in a stupor, realized the rudder is 1.5 degreeesss out, only the Brits.

But hey, decided to save the engine for a rebuild, demanding scratchbuilt exhaust port-platform, and drive shaft.

But hey, got a 16 gig chip for Christmas. Man if I get that loaded up FSM is in trouble. I’ve got pictures of the day my cat got super-glued to a Bismarck! - only kidding-

Actually it was my wife, got glued to a cat, got glued to a Bismarck![:O][:)][:D][6] got glued to the carpet, and gosh, I haven’t heard form any of them since? -just doesn’t make sense![6]

Shots of the Hurricane due, just about when you guys apply for Old Age Pension.

Really, those shots are coming. So are your Rhuebella shots. Did you replace your CMO batteries?

This glacier is just so slow.

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The Hurri’s canopy is a breeze, almost everything is a straight line… In that scale you oughtta be able to brush-paint it without masking, lol…

I usually freehand canopies in 1/32 & larger,1/48th gets a little masking sometimes, but I’ve been known to mask those that need the frame and fuselage to match and I don’t have any un-thinned “fuselage color”, so I’ll mask it up… What I do is a combination of free-handing with some maskig…

I start by just laying the tape along the horizontal edges (or vertical, it doesn’t matter where you start) and painting them with the brush, then remove the tape, clean up any rough spots while it’s still wet, and then let it dry… Later, I’ll perform the same operation on the vertical… If I don’t get it all in one day, it doesn’t matter… Since I don’t need the canopy attached to finish painting, it’s fine just to plug away at it a litle here & there instead of trying to mask it entirely and shoot it attached to the model…

The only times that this approach doeasn’t work well is when I have a lot of touch-up to do because of having to putty & sand a canopy to fit properly, and rescribe any detail on the framing I took off…

Here’s a rough sketch to show what I’m talking about… Clear as mud now, right?

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HVH that’s a very workable idea.

I was going to get a mask set, but it’s still in Poland. By the time it gets here I’ll be about $20 short and a couple of months late.

I figure I can pull that off with a bit of Tamiya tape, on a beer-free weekend, though I might want some when I finish. I’ll aim for the inside first, and see how it goes. If I mess that up at least it won’t show as much.

I should probably do the Stuka at the same time once I am on a roll.

Thanks for the KH! [:D]

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HVH that’s a very workable idea.

I was going to get a mask set, but it’s still in Poland. By the time it gets here I’ll be about $20 short and a couple of months late.

I figure I can pull that off with a bit of Tamiya tape, on a beer-free weekend, though I might want some when I finish. I’ll aim for the inside first, and see how it goes. If I mess that up at least it won’t show as much.

I should probably do the Stuka at the same time once I am on a roll.

Thanks for the KH! [:D]

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Here’s the last progress on the engine:

I built that reinforced frame for a lead-loaded engine to balance an in-flight display.

Then I was told the engine was worth saving for a kit-bash assembly, so I improvised an exhaust manifold set up with the propeller shat made out of sprue.

So that’s where it stands, until I lose interest in the F-4 Phantom II Group Build, 2071![;)]

That Phantom is so cool, I just couldn’t bear to see it go into the grinder. That makes me a [:(DD]!!!