An (almost)GB for a bit of fun

[Guest]

Yep I'm in I have Tamiyas MKI Spitfire and the BF109E-3

For those looking for a Hurricaine the best that I've found so far is;

Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.I # 02082A

[Guest]

Is that the best as in the right period (I suppose any Hurricane is OK though) or is it that it is a good kit David?

[Guest]

Erm not sure I did a search and that was the best I could find for BoB, being that it's Airfix it may need some extra work on it to bring it up to scratch!

I had a good look in ModelZone this morning and couldn't find any 1:72 Hurricaines at all, however they did have a 1:48th Hurricaine in the Airfix range.

try these links;

Hawker Hurricane MK.IIC (1:72 Plastic Kit) from Transport Models - Plastic Kits, Figures, Diecast Models, Model Raliways, Airbrushes, Books, Slots and Track.

Hawker Hurricane MkIIc (1:72 Scale Plastic kit) from Transport Models - Plastic Kits, Figures, Diecast Models, Model Raliways, Airbrushes, Books, Slots and Track.

Hastings Hobbies Ltd Revell Hawker Hurricane Mk II C Scale model kit

Revell 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIC - 04144 - £4.49

I hope the above links help

Regards

David

[Gern]

Yes the MK 1 hurri was used in the BoB. Never seen those tanks before though.Kresten

Thanks Kressy. Good to know I ain't wasted my fiver!

Gern

[Guest]

OK count me in. I will have a trawl around the model stalls at Duxford tomorrow and see what I can pick up in the way of a Hurricane/Spitfire/or an Me 109 E-3/4!

Andy

[Guest]

What idiot decided this would be a 1:72 game???? I have just realised I have a Mk1 1:48 Hurricane (yep, the old, old Airfix one, should be a laugh) in my stash....

Who was the idiot. ME!!!!!! :fool:

[Guest]

I hope you have a full tube of filler for that kit Graham...lol

[Guest]

What? Are you saying it will not be up to Tamiya standards Ray????

[Guest]

lol.......a bottle of JD will help the kit go together, should keep your swearing to a minimum.

[tr1ckey66]

Hi All, if anyone's interest I've just put 3 Airfix 1/72 Hurries on ebay for a fiver! Had a vague plan to have 3 taking off with wheels in various states of retraction but will never get round to it. I'm not taking part in this, but it sounds like great fun. All the best with the braille scale Spits, Hurries, Messerschmitts, Heinkels, Dorniers, Stukas - with all this lot you could probably hold your own mock battle in 1/72!

Cheers

Paul

[Guest]

Oh someone beat me too it....

Tony..

[stona]

Yes the MK 1 hurri was used in the BoB. Never seen those tanks before though.Kresten

The tanks are on a IIc which wasn't introduced until the following year and didn't serve in the period we (the allied side) refer to as the BoB. Infact,except as a nightfighter it didn't really serve as an air superiority fighter on the channel front as it was outclassed by newer german types.

The SpitfireII squeezed into the BoB but apart from a couple of little bulges it looks and was armed exactly like the SpitfireI. It had a newer,more powerful 1775hp Merlin.

Someone already said that the Bf109 E was the principal Luftwaffe opposition.The E-7 missed the BoB (though some were delivered technically just in time. JG26 for example got some in October '40) so no drop tanks.There is evidence for the experimental use of drop tanks but no evidence that they were used operationally during this period which may well be just as well for us. A big problem extending the range of all these early WWII fighters was that they ran out of oil! They needed bigger or auxiliary oil tanks but that's another story.

All the above only applies if we are sticking to what the British define as the BoB. The Germans consider it, the "Luftschlacht um England", as a phase in a longer campaign and fail to see why we get so worked up about it!!!!

I've posted this for info only.The main thing surely is still to build a nice little model,have fun and not worry too much about the history.

Cheers

Steve

[Gern]

Hi Steve,

What a minefield we walk through when doing this history stuff!

Is it safe to assume the kit is actually of a Mk 1 and they've added the tanks in error I wonder? I'll have a browse and see if I can find a review which will tell me which one it is.

And here was me thinking "A nice simple BoB build. Just what the doctor ordered after some of my recent trials and tribulations." lol

Gern

[Guest]

Cheers for that stona. You sure are a wealth of information.

Kresten

[Gern]

OK guys.

I've not spent an age on this but apparently this kit has parts for both a Mk I and a Mk IIb - hence the tanks in the picture. No-one has commented adversely on the accuracy of the kit so I'm just gonna go ahead and build it according to the instructions for the Mk I. I might try and add a few details in the cockpit as this kit is typical of the time and has very little. Mind you, I have problems enough trying to do detail stuff in 1/32 let alone this microscopic 1/72; so that may not happen!

Thanks for your input.

Gern