I have to say that I am loving this build. For a large scale kit the engineering is pretty traditional, simple clamshell fuselage, no slide moulding and it really benefits from this. The detail is good enough for most people, giving plenty of potential for those who want to add more. Looking at it, the shape is good and it really does look like a Hurricane. I would describe this as a model that wants to be built. The fit is much better than that Trumpy SU-25 for sure. I will certainly build another Trumpy 1/24 Hurricane in future as it is so enjoyable, with which I may well do a lot more ‘detailing up’. There will be plenty of the Maketar masks left for one or two more Hurris.
Anyway
I have been working on the lights after the surface prep.
the Montex vinyl masks are behaving better than some vinyl. Not good enough for the markings but seem to be working ok for the lights.
I sprayed the wheel wells
They will need masking later.
I got the
decals out to take a look and even looking at them reminds me of why Trumpy
decals should never be used. The main problem of course is how they just don’t hold together and splinter but it is also the way Trumpy seem to always get the colours wrong. Look how bright the red is, nothing like the red used during he war. The blue also looks wrong.
The only
decals I will use, with at least two coats of liquid decal film in the hope of holding them together, will be the aircraft serial numbers and stencils. The codes, flashes and roundels will be painted with the Maketar kabuki tape masks. Nowhere close to that just yet, of course....