Early Hurricane Season Begins

This started as a simple batch build of my 5 remaining Airfix Mk I kits that I wanted to do quickly.  Since I had a 4 day weekend over Easter I had hoped to pretty much complete construction of all 5 kits to the point you see here.  Well, my eyes were bigger than my modeling time…

The above is after the following early May Bank Holiday.  Finally ready for paint except for one small issue:  Which subject is which?  Externally all are early rag wing Hurricanes.  Two are the earlier variant without the ventral strake, and one of those has the earliest cowl ring, so they were easy to pick out of the batch.  But of the other three, which one did not have the armor behind the seat?

Well, I had to remove the canopy masks to find out, and figured I had a 1 in 3 chance to get it right and only remove one…which means I have a 2 in 3 chance of getting it wrong.  You guessed it, I confirmed why I don’t play the lottery.  I had to remove the masks from 2 models with the third one being the ‘right’ one.  I then decided to add a marker to it to ensure I didn’t accidentally put the wrong scheme on it.

I have one more rag wing Hurricane to do; the AZ kit one of which I built back in 2010 (?).  I’m hoping that a captured Mk I in German markings is really rag wing, and if it is, I’ll do that.  Until I’m certain, or at least don’t care, I’ll hold off building that kit.  If I decide it has to be a metal winged variant, I’ll probably sell the AZ kit as this one is so much easier to build.

Thanks for looking…