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Building Pat Pattle's Hurricane |
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Written by Pablo Calcaterra- IPMS Toronto, Canada
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Sunday, 22 August 2004 |
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Page 3 of 6 Fuselage: | I carved the opening of the hand hold below the cockpit because the retracting foot hold was going to be displayed extended. When this is extended, a cover opens to allow the pilot to grab hold of the fuselage and climb on to the aircraft. The interior of the cockpit was basically built out of the box, with the exception of the seat belts that were added from a Airwaves set, the head rest that was sanded off and the position light opening under the fuselage that was opened up. To make this light, I used on ejector pin of a transparent tree, which is perfectly round and flat. Once painted silver inside, it was glued to the fuselage after the fuselage halves were mated, using a small set of pliers to correctly place it. The panels in this area were scribed. |  |
Main wing: | The bulges for the 20 mm cannons were removed by sanding and most of the panel lines to access them were covered with putty and sanded to oblivion. As I had in my spares box the photo etched gun panels of the HC Hurricane MkI Night Rider, I decided to use them. One thing I immediately noted is that they are too wide and long, so using Caruana’s plans again I sanded them to the correct size. Placed on the wings, new panel lines around these panels were scribed using a cut photocopy of the plans of this area. Once finished, I gave it a coat of interior green (I was painting the parts of the plane that uses this colour at this stage…the fuselage had not been mated) to check if there were some extra sanding needed. The wing tip lights were cut out as I wanted to use transparent plastic here to better represent them. Upper and lower wing halves and wheels bay (weathered with brown chalk and dry brushed silver paint) were glued together and putty was used in the joint areas where needed. Slowly and carefully I opened up the muzzles area that had already been cut to be able to accommodate the resin copies. Fit proved to be not bad at all. They were attached using two-part epoxy glue, which was also used, as filler where needed. After a couple of sessions, a decent surface was achieved. The five strengthening bars and the oil tank cap of the front left wing (close to the fuselage) were scratchbuilt and glued. The tail light was cut out as I wanted to use a transparent plastic piece. Now the wings were ready to be mated to the fuselage. |  Top of wing detail. |  Wing bays. |  Navigation light prior to sanding. |
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