Hurricane article in Scale Aviation Modeller

[Ruy Horta]

Attached the image as provided by Alex.

[Ruy Horta]

Originally Posted by Alex Smart

Thank you Steven, for the profiles, BE225 is the one in the magazine I mentioned, but a/s has No Tropical chin intake and the camoflage is not the same looks slightly like a mirror image of the one shown here and the colours duller.

Perhaps some clever sole will post the profile here so it can be seen against yours seen above.

Alex

I'm not that clever, but I'd like to know what went wrong when you tried to upload the image.

As for the color analysis, I think you should not take the slight differences seriously, they are basically portraying the same colors but by different artists in different publications. Although most of the 1942 Far Eastern photos show a temporate looking scheme, some give a sense of having a (lighter) desert scheme.

Weren't a number of the Far East Hurris on their way to the desert or even delivered from North Africa? Note, I might be completely off here, working from vague memory.

[Alex Smart]

Hello and Thank you Ruy,

Well , I thought I did it right, but as can be seen was wrong.
I'll try again on another thread sometime.

Thanks again.

The point's that I was making were one , that the camoflage patterns were different in the two profiles, and that for one a/c with serial number known I would have thought that at least the same pattern would be shown, even and odd serials had afaiaa one pattern on even numbers and a mirror of the pattern on the odd numberd a/c. This changed in later years of the war I beleive to one pattern only.
The second was about there being or not a chin intake , would have thought that research for the article would have brought to light wether or not this a/c BE225 had one or not.

I am in no way finding fault with the profiles or their artist , Overall i find the magazine very helpful andhas great colour profiles in each issue, but would have thought that these things would have been sorted out at the research stage before ink was on paper.

Thanks again

Alex

[Modeldad]

One thing that makes me believe Caruana is incorrect is the DG/DE patteren. Both the A and B patterns have the Dark Green (or Mid Stone, if replacing DG) going across the cockpit area. As shown, Caruana's BE225 represents a rarely used C scheme, and I belive that by the time these aircraft were produce, the C and D scheme were not used.

So either Caruana was working from a rare picture of a rare scheme, or else he winged it. My money is on the latter.

The AJ Press profiles use the correct A scheme. I could be wrong, but I belive by the time the BE series were produced, the A scheme became standard.

[Alex Smart]

Hello Steven,


Winged it, yes thats my thoughts too. Saying that it's a very good article and I am pleased to have it.

Still waiting more info on the Iraq part though, Anyone ???


Alex

[Tony Kearns]

Hello Alex,
I have been in touch with Richard Caruana mainly to congratulate him on the Irish Hurricane.He replied by e mail and I part quote "There is not much doubt as to the Dutch Hurricanes, in fact I received some feedback from readers primarily pointing out that, contrary to what I said in the caption, they did not carry triangles over the wings. The reference to Iraq was a typo error of mine,which I regret,and was actually a reference to Iran "
Kind regard
Tony Kearns

[Modeldad]

Shame we don't have the full story on the Dutch Hurricanes. Did they have triangles at all? Fuselage only? Or did they have tri-colors ?

[Graham Boak]

As a minor point, I would assume Sky Blue rather than Sky on overseas Hurricanes after 1940.

[Alex Smart]

Hello Tony,


Thank you for the info and on Mr Caruana's comments re the triangle and also the typo error re Iraq.

NEI Hurricane's No triangles on wings, so perhaps over-painted RAF roundels or maybe the RAF roundels were left on.

Pitty, I was looking forward to hearing more on those Iraqi Hurricane's. I also had overlooked Iran had several of most types of Hurricane.

Thank you ALL for helping to clear up my questions.

Alex