Conference vmszoo::rc

    Eric,
    
    One of _the_ best sources for documentation on any aircraft, including
    the Hurricane, is the "_____ In Action" series from Squadron Signal
    Publications.  These excellent books, available in many book stores,
    some hobby shops and several aviation oriented mail-order houses,
    go for about $5.00 each.
    
    I have the one on the Hurribus, titled, aptly enough, "Hurricane
    In Action" and it's great as are all the other books in this series.
    It's loaded with photographs, 3-views, isometric drawings, etc.
    highlighting all the detail areas of interest to a modeler and showing
    a genealogy from prototype-thru-succeeding variants.  Also included
    is a full page or more of full-color illustrations of various paint
    schemes used on actual combat [if applicable] aircraft.  I strongly
    recommend you pick this book up straight away and decide from there
    what else, if anything, you might need.
    
    Another fairly good source in one of the plastic kits available.  For
    example, buying a Monogram 1/48 scale, plastic Hurricane kit for
    the sole purpose of studying panel-lines and other details of interest
    is a pretty cheap way to come by such information...who knows, you
    might even get a bang outa' building it though this is not even
    required for our purpose, that of documentation.  
    
    That should get you started.  Let us know if you still need more
    info after trying these suggested avenues.  BTW, I also have the
    Reeves kit but am in a quandry regarding starting it.  Problem is
    I detected an obvious outline flaw in the wing dihedral, i.e. the
    kit has the dihedral running straight out from the center section
    while the actual aircraft had a 3-piece wing with flat center section
    and what little dihedral it had running out from just outside the
    gear struts.  For purposes of Masters-class competition, this would
    never pass and I really haven't decided the best was to correct
    this problem...so, I've done nothing on it as of now.  

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      | |      00	 Adios,      Al
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      |    Z__(O_\_	(The Desert Rat)

    For your question about finishing, the consensus seems to be glass
    and paint.  Note 288.* in this conference has a ton of information
    about just that subject.  (there are currently some 220 replies!).
    
    You might also want to read the note in hear about Scale building.
    That has a lot of good information on where to locate documentation.
    I would guess that you still have relatives in England..  Perhaps
    one of them could do some legwork for you over there...
    
    Enjoy!
    jeff
    

    Just to expand on Jeff's suggestion, the topic "So Ya' Wanna' Fly
    Scale" is located at 271.  Try it, you may find a lot of useable
    information...as a matter of fact, further discussion on yer'
    Hurricane question(s) should probably be placed there also, if you
    don't mind.    

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      | |      00	 Adios,      Al
    |_|_|      ( >o
      |    Z__(O_\_	(The Desert Rat)

    Hi,
    
    	Just found this notes conf. and browsing thru see Hurricane...
    I have only been interested in RC for 3 months ..but the request
    for scale details like cockpit etc. I happen to know that back in
    'Blighty' documents exist that maybe of use. The documents are on
    sale in the U.K for $1.90 I believe, you may obtain them from
    the Royal Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop, not far from Andover.
    	The documents were issued to pilots of the Hurricanes as a
    familiarization handbook, I believe they are called 'Pilots handbook'
    and are available for other planes as well. They contain sections
    and descriptions plus inflight procedures/operations etc.
    	If you contact a U.K book seller like WHSMITH, I'm sure they
    would send you a list of Hurri titles etc..
    
    TTFN
    
    -Trev