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Hawker Hurricane—Ed
With an urge to build a model straight from a kit, I ordered a 60” span Hurricane from Derek Micko in the USA. It’s an ultralight design, just like a big KK kit, superbly laser cut balsa and ply and a well-drawn plan. You have to buy various bits and pieces of course. Anyone at the BIMBO event 2 years ago will have seen Scott Wallis’s version in desert colours. Mine is going to be a RN Sea Hurricane, just for a change.
The design is full of neat features and the fuz and wing are minimal structures. Oddly, the tail group is very beefy and probably weighs a lot more than it should. There are a number of, how can I put this...scale infelicities...but I suppose it depends which 3-view you use as the basis of the original drawings. I made the tail group and the fuselage. As you can see, formers and stringers are the order of the day. I got as far as putting on the starboard group of three stringers and realised that already the fuselage spine was twisted. There was no way I was going to finish the model in this state!
So back to basics, I drew up a ladder frame for the edges of the kit formers to fit round, and started all over again. I should have rolled my own!
More in the next newsletter - Mike
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