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Ian's progress will be recorded here.

Gents, this wouldn't be a hewman build thread without the promise of a Hurricane

There may be a Beaufighter and Mosquito in here somewhere at some point too!

So what Hurri are you going to make

I am beginning with a Mossie, and due to a bargain find on E-Bay a little extra will done with it:

As the forward bomb bay will be open, inspired by Lincolnlanc I shall have a go at fitting ou the rear bay with a couple of 500lb bombs.

This evening I have been doing my usual 'hacking and bashing'

The cannon bay was mounted on a piece of plasticard and then this was cemented to the fuselage. The slow setting of the poly cement allowed time to get the positioning right.

The machine-gun bay:

Awesome. I'm going to have to build a Mosquito some day...

Interior construction continues:

Nice work so far.

'The Office' and weapons bays:

More to be done in the rear bomb bay.....

And here it is. The removed doors have been thinned down considerably and the retraction jacks are cut down items from an Airfix Lanc.

Also opened up the holes in the cannon bay cover.

A close up of the bay. No more detail to be added as the 500lbers will fill the area.

The etch forward bay doors under construction. curvature created by bending around a craft knife handle.
In the foreground are the kit bombs and a couple Tamiya ones from the spares mountain to hang on the external wing racks.

Brilliant work there hewman!

I thought for a minute you were building the 1/48 kit and was impressed - then I realised it was the 1/72 kit and am officially blown away!

Brilliant job so far.

A couple more close ups of the now painted bay. I've also used plasticard to mount the kit bombs together:

Camouflage on:

Bombs loaded:

That looks brilliant Ian. You make hacking kits into pieces look such simple work!

After my Empire Flying Boat and several vacforms, a lot of my ideas seem 'doable' with a little thought now George.

Very nice detailed custom work.

does that mossie have light blue undersides and a msg/dg upper camo? How odd

Superb work

Looks great so far