If you
remember a post from a couple of months back that showed a new display case which
I had purchased at the Spring Show, you’ll probably remember that the bottom
two rows of that new case were filled with Hurricanes. RAF Hurricanes, foreign Hurricanes,
PR Hurricanes, racing Hurricanes. And, given that there was open space on the
bottom row, the promise of new Hurricanes to come.
So I
have begun the process of adding those new Hurricanes. I was doing another of
my infamous stash dives, rummaging around in the 72 Land National Warehouse,
when I ran across the section devoted to Hurricanes. It is a bit depleted,
since I haven’t been buying much in the last few years, and have actually been
building things. (Counterintuitively, a net stash reduction is clearly not
enough to freeze Hell over at this time). Not that you’d notice the reduction,
with about 2000 kits in the garage.
There
were a couple of Hasegawa IIs (a B and a C) and two Omega resin kits of oddball
variants, in this case a floatplane and a Russian two-seat courier/trainer. I
have to say that the floatplane got some serious consideration, but I try to
limit myself to one resin kit at a time, and I’m still hoping to get the
Northrop N1M back on track in the near future.
But
while in another area of the stash, I ran across a couple of HobbyBoss easy
kits of 2cs as well. I don’t share the disdain that some have for the ease of
assembly of this line of kits, but then kits with low parts count often get an
enthusiastic thumbs up from me. Since I had never built one of the HobbyBoss
kits in this series, I decided to throw both of them on the workbench.
I next
turned to potential markings. About the only option in the three 2cs is the
filter: tropical or standard. Well, that and the prop/spinner, but both styles
are available in both the Hasegawa and HobbyBoss boxes. I spent a little time
rooting in my decal box, searching for an interesting set of markings that I
had not yet used.
Frustratingly,
many of the interesting schemes were for F1s, which have become difficult to
find these days. Hopefully, Airfix will follow up their fabric wing Hurricane
with a metal wing Mk 1, which would solve that problem in a simple (and
inexpensive) way.
