Hi guys, I am currently building a model of Hawker Hurricane MkI in scale 1/48 which will turn to be Nigel Cullen's a/c that crashed in 4th March 1941 in the Ionian Sea, west of Albania.
There is only
one shot of this a/c with the pilot as well (actually his last photo) depicting part of the machine the day of the crash.
The info is: 80 Squadron, V7288, Greece 1941, a/c came from Egypt.
Questions:
-Did the aircraft carry a tropical voke's filter or the standard european one? It's not visible in the photo. From other photographs of the same squadron's machines in 1941, there is a variety with hurricanes carrying voke's filter and other carrying the european.
-The camouflage seems to be temperate (Dark Earth/Dark Green) and not desert. There is no spaghetti camo on the leading edge of the wings and under the engine cowl. No squadron letters on the fuselage. Any idea about the colour of the wheel bay? I painted it pale green as the general interior colour but I see that many Hurricanes are painted gray in the wheel hub.
-Any idea for the underside colour?
-Any other info will be appreciated!
There is
one more shot of 80 Sqn's Hurricanes taken in Palestine in 1941, not very far from the days of the war in Greece. It shows Hurricanes carrying Voke's filter, and still without squadron letters
Thank you for your time and please forgive me if this is not the suitable forum for modelling questions, but here I may find the right answers.
Themis