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The Hurricane was less glamorous and modern than the Spitfire, but formed the backbone of Fighter Command.

I am well aware of this kit´s shortcomings, shapewise.

The inventory. Apart from the Eduard interior PE, I got an Airwaves exterior set, and masks by DEAD design.

I love using my foam cutter, and I had ample opportunity to do it with this project.

I chose this version of a vehicle from Nuremberg thinking of my late and beloved godmother, who spent most of her life t...

I primed the birds in Stynylrez white and brush painted them in Stynylrez black, two shades of grey, yellow and orange. ...

A rare image of an organized bench, right at the start of the build.

The umpowered vessel rides out a gale, basically at the mercy of winds and waves. Held in place only by its main anchor.

The model after having sat on shelves unprotected for the best part of 25 years. I was decluttering and was very close t...

This is the boxart of this venerable kit, mine is copyrighted 1979. It has since been reboxed by Revell.

The completed presentation with the rather small model on top.

I got this kit at the shop of a private military museum in Germany.

The completed display showing the boxart.

For the rigging, 0.06 mm Modelkasten wire was used. Very handy.

Having added a lot of aluminum foil, and drilled open all the scuttles, it was time to look into further assembly. I did...

I started by making a sea base with the top of a wave diagonally to its center. I used my trusty foam cutter to good ava...

The model is complete. The portside antenna is hard to see as it was made from Caenis monofilament, but it´s there. I om...

This is the currently final setup.

The cockpits are quite heavy on PE.

I added yet more weight to the front gear well, and now the model just about sits on its tricycle gear, but really just ...

I started with the kit and the GMM PE set. Moreover, I used various generic PE by Saemann, mainly railings, handwheels, ...

There is a nice photo on Wikipedia showing Burton islanddriven up the edge of the ice, moored to a pole driven into the ...

I closed the remaining gaps between the model and its base using heavy clear gloss acrylic medium. I then added the figu...

Final assembly.

Finally. After decaling, I sealed the decals with Future, added a flat coat and then the numerous fiddly bits. The anten...

Painting as usual involved a lot of masking, luckily Stynylrez primer worked great on the plastic, no liftoffs!

I first make the wave pattern with a gas burner, very carefully and under proper ventilation (!!!) . Nowadays, I make th...

Eduard´s prepainted PE makes a big difference and eases work in the cockpit a lot

I tried to find middle ground between making the model too uniform and clean and going overbaord with accentuation and w...

Building this tractor was virtually pure fun. The kti fit quite nicely, and progress was seen quite soon.

After a failed first attempt, I made a template according to the measurements from the InfiniModel instructions for the ...

The dio shows a rather weary-looking tugboat in drydock about to be refurbished. The workers aren´t actually doing anyth...

I used my foam cutter to advantage in this project, I wouldn´t have been able to make these clean angled cuts in foam bo...

The vessel is shown in a moderate sea state, but without a really dramatic effect. To me, it´s more pleasing and effecti...

I added watertight doors from an Atlantic Models PE sheet as they looked crisper than the casting. The bridge windows we...

Main components assembled, typical resin instant gratification.

This image shows the neat Alclad-painted exhausts, but also how I needed to saw them apart to attach them after assmebli...

After mounting the aircraft and vehicles, I added a number of Lion Roar PE figures and my usual friendly flat coat of ob...

Back when I got the kit, many moons ago, I had bought a pack of additional Harriers and Sea Kings from Orange Hobby each.

Some dusty work was needed to remove the pour stubs

But the result looked quite neat to me.

This is the completed model. I now only would have to pop it into its base cutout, close any remaining gaps and be done.

The kit´s fit was quite OK, with minimal filler needed at the wheelhouse corners and at the rear of the superstructure.

My parts spent three weeks in a brakefluid bath to de-chrome them.

I needed quite some time to approach a fit of the main parts. Coffee helped.

Mostly a good fit - onyl some minor corrections were necessary.

This is quite a unique aircraft, and it did what it was built for.

The instrument panel is classically layered from PE, a film and the styrene backing

I started with adding the PE wherever I could prior to any other assembly.

This is how I work with a flat base, as in a display box. The model will be mounted to it by screws, for which I drill h...

I started using clear silicone caulking over a painted base. That looked nice at the start, but not in the long run. The...

The completed model. I followed the 4+ booklet on the type re paint, markings, weapons loadout and sensor fit.

The beginning - the kit box with artwork straight from "Sailor" and the Big Ed.

The vintage box from 1976 - teenage memories!

After assembling the hull, a cutout was made into the base

Beginning the base. After making a cutout for the hull, I produced a general wake pattern with a gas torch.

There´s a lot of material to be removed

The model on its base after adding some water and wave effects

More subassemblies , amongst them some of the various additional sponsons

The island and funnel have the wrong shape, this is the last specimen of WEM´s resin correction set

A full insulation plate with the hull cutouts and preparation of the waves with a gas burner

Built after toying with some inexpensive and un-photographed kits - the excellent Tamiya Birdcage Corsair. Built around ...