Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc by Lt. Biggles - Hasegawa - 1/48

[Lt. Biggles]

So decided to take you guys up on your invite to join you down the back here!

im just a few weeks away from finishing my ship so was starting to wonder what I’d do once complete. Needed something smaller and fun after the investment of time in a ship build.

 

Ordered the kit and just a few extras so far like seat belt and canopy masking. Won’t do any open hatches or internals apart from the cockpit and that I may enhance slightly but will see what the kit one looks like.

 

 

This is my idea which I did back to front really. I don’t want to just make the plane from the box I want to find a real pilot and remake their plane at least for a guide. As I’m from New Zealand I’ve been doing some research on people in the RNZAF who flew the Hurricane Mk II and if I can find anyone from around my area “east coast of the North Island” then that will be my pick! If I can’t find one then just a fellow Kiwi who flew preferably in the European theatre. I just like it when there is more meaning behind a project. 

 

Feel free to chat all over over this log and help me out. I work as a pilot so at least I should know what most of the things do on an aircraft unlike my knowledge of ships haha, but I’ll not start this build until my ship is complete so a few weeks away yet I’d say.

[Edwardkenway]

I'm in, I'll get a chair instead of rafter hanging😄, nice idea of doing a local pilot!!

[Egilman]

I'm in, grabbing the middle easy chair before anyone else does....

[ccoyle]

I have the card version in my stash.

[Jack12477]

I'm in too. Taking seat next to EG and Edward

[Canute]

I'll ease on in to the front row for this one.

[Old Collingwood]

Move over chaps  - I'm here also  - can't sit at the back not tall enough.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

I'm here tootrtrtttttttt { pizza sauce on the keys..... }

[lmagna]

9 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

I'll get a chair instead of rafter hanging😄

Coward!............. Looks like I'm up here all by my lonesome this time. Let me know and I can help hold the light for you.

[Canute]

Silly hover lover.😁

[lmagna]

Possibly a little batty in my advanced years. But it is seldom I get to look down on anyone these days.

[Old Collingwood]

17 minutes ago, lmagna said:

Possibly a little batty in my advanced years. But it is seldom I get to look down on anyone these days.

Get some high heel boots lou.

 

OC.

[Edwardkenway]

Good grief OC!!!😆

 

Edited November 20, 2020 by Edwardkenway

[Jack12477]

Stilts might be better

[Rick01]

You could join this forum and ask for some assistance in locating a Kiwi Hurricane pilot. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/forum.php The guys there are very helpful and have a wealth of knowledge between them all.

 

Rick

[Lt. Biggles]

This is certainly the best place to be hanging out! 😂 While you have been all fighting over the seats I’ve been learning a lot while I try and work out what aircraft I’ll be building. Happy to have you all along for the ride!

For now I’ll just be thinking out loud on here and can summarise what I learn about New Zealand’s part in the RAF as we tend to “slide under the radar” due to our small size and just tagged along and helped support all the major nations operations.

In almost all the RAF squadrons there was a kiwi flying at some point during the war.

[mtaylor]

I'll join lou in the cheap seats in the balcony.  

[Old Collingwood]

On 11/20/2020 at 10:40 PM, Edwardkenway said:

Good grief OC!!!😆

 

I should have worded that better  - I meant the 70s style boots with  big heals  - good for extra hight.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

42 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

I'll join lou in the cheap seats in the balcony.  

How you gonna moderate from all the way up there  - hope you have one of those long pointing sticks.

 

OC.

[Egilman]

1 hour ago, Old Collingwood said:

hope you have one of those long pointing sticks.

I'm sure he does, probably one of those long rulers as well, but I don't know how well practiced he is in using one.... {chuckle}

[Edwardkenway]

Best behaviour from now on then😁

[lmagna]

I will lend Mark one of the high powered Nerf guns my grand kids have laying around here from years of filling Christmas lists. The Barrett .50 sniper rifle will fire a Nerf dart so hard that it can sting on bare skin at 25 feet!

 

THAT should keep all of you in check................ Well at least part of the time! If that doesn't work then I also have a Nerf mortar that the youngest got last year. He spent a week making a mortar from an old mailing tube I gave him and stuff he had laying around in his room. Even though it would not really fire he had a lot of fun with it so I found the Nerf style mortar that actually fires rockets across the room. They don't hit all that hard but still get your attention when they drop on your head!

[Canute]

Ever build a potato/tennis ball cannon? My nosegunner and I built one in Thailand and we'd shoot tennis balls at the dart board in our hooch bar. We were a touch too rowdy for the O Club, if you can imagine that. Shot our squadron commander in the chest when he entered the bar as he jinked into our line of fire. Chased us around the outside of the  hooch bar for a few laps and we all went back in for beers.

 

We had a bell hanging in front of the door under a 4-5 foot Phantom. Intended to Remind people to remove their hats as they entered the bar. Guys could jink left or right , but that night was a big poker game so jinking left was not an option. He popped into our line of fire as I put the match to the  firing hole. Too late, frontseater was dead on the center of the dart board and the CO's chest. It wasn't much of a welt.

[Old Collingwood]

1 hour ago, Edwardkenway said:

Best behaviour from now on then😁

All of us?   wonder who the cheeky one is?😃☺️

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

42 minutes ago, lmagna said:

I will lend Mark one of the high powered Nerf guns my grand kids have laying around here from years of filling Christmas lists. The Barrett .50 sniper rifle will fire a Nerf dart so hard that it can sting on bare skin at 25 feet!

 

THAT should keep all of you in check................ Well at least part of the time! If that doesn't work then I also have a Nerf mortar that the youngest got last year. He spent a week making a mortar from an old mailing tube I gave him and stuff he had laying around in his room. Even though it would not really fire he had a lot of fun with it so I found the Nerf style mortar that actually fires rockets across the room. They don't hit all that hard but still get your attention when they drop on your head!

Blimy Lou  - can imagine you lot playing  - play battle in your house with Nerf guns and mortars   - bet your admiral would be pleased walking into the house - Full on battle  of Lou's Land.😊

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

30 minutes ago, Canute said:

Ever build a potato/tennis ball cannon? My nosegunner and I built one in Thailand and we'd shoot tennis balls at the dart board in our hooch bar. We were a touch too rowdy for the O Club, if you can imagine that. Shot our squadron commander in the chest when he entered the bar as he jinked into our line of fire. Chased us around the outside of the  hooch bar for a few laps and we all went back in for beers.

 

We had a bell hanging in front of the door under a 4-5 foot Phantom. Intended to Remind people to remove their hats as they entered the bar. Guys could jink left or right , but that night was a big poker game so jinking left was not an option. He popped into our line of fire as I put the match to the  firing hole. Too late, frontseater was dead on the center of the dart board and the CO's chest. It wasn't much of a welt.

Between you and Lou  - "Blimy"   can imagine a Full on play mayhem  Nerfs and potato/tennis balls going everywere.😁

 

OC.

[Egilman]

12 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

play battle in your house with Nerf guns and mortars   - bet your admiral would be pleased walking into the house

Oh what a reminder.... 10-11 years old, spring loaded shotguns firing ping-pong balls for christmas, my brother and I.... bunch of little paper targets came with them... but never even got assembled...

 

We would have shooting battles all over the house much to mothers trepidation.... but she tolerated it.... they didn't hit hard enough to break anything, but could reach across a 25'room with some fair accuracy.... Until one day she was turning a corner into the direct line of fire.....

She would never tell who was the cuplrit, but the ping pong ball that hit her in the backside did it for the spring-loaded shotguns... within two days they disappeared while we were at school, we were smart enough then not to ask..... 

 

She would always get a chuckle out of us retelling that story 40 years later... (she even giggled herself at the retelling even though it wasn't very funny to her at the time)

[mtaylor]

6 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

How you gonna moderate from all the way up there  - hope you have one of those long pointing sticks.

 

OC.

 

Oh... I'm supposed to moderate instead of tend to the popcorn machine????   Damn, no one told me.    No pointing sticks, long rulers, potato guns (yeah.. I've done those), nope... nada.  You're on your best behavior and if you lot aren't, I'll take the popcorn machine away.   

[lmagna]

6 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Ever build a potato/tennis ball cannon?

Yes, but the best in my opinion is the ping pong ball gun we still have around here somewhere. They really move out but still won't brake the windows.

6 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

We were a touch too rowdy for the O Club, if you can imagine that.

No I can't. I have been taken in as a guest a number of times and on some nights "rowdy" was nowhere near descriptive enough.

6 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

bet your admiral would be pleased walking into the house

My wife has raised three sons and two grandsons to date for a total of just over 50 years of uninterrupted boys. (She has always wanted a girl but with her luck she would have been a Tom Boy) Our only two girls are our grand daughters who live two rather large US states away. There is not much "Boy" stuff my wife has not experienced, and once in a great while, participated in.

6 hours ago, Canute said:

Shot our squadron commander in the chest

If your O club was as small as ours was then your CO must have been one tough dude to take a potato point blank in the chest and still be able to chase you guys around the club. I bet I know who had to buy a few rounds that night!

[Canute]

Lou, it was a tennis ball and it did raise some welt. And the room was about 20 feet long. Must have hurt like heck, too. Hence the rat race around the hooches. We ducked out the storeroom door and ran snickering around back. He followed and we all ended up out on the grassy area in front of the bar, laughing at the faux pas. The CO was a good guy, who we'd fly thru heck for.  We were in our squadron area, nowhere near the O Club. We could only eat there; the bar was off limits for my squadron at various times.