I craked this beauty open today to get a detailed look and have been quite impressed overall. Oh and it turns out my phone's camera can be switched to pro mode to access the macro setting which takes some very nice pictures

The decals in the kit come on a very large A4 sized sheet and are printed very nicely right down to the smallest ones.

There is a lot of detail molded into the parts but there is a lot of minor flash around the edges as well as some nasty seams on a lot of the internal structural parts. Nothing a bit of clean wouldnt solve, albeit a slow and tedious job

The spures are quite large with 2 of them running the entire length of the box, which is by no means small

I seem to have a thing for photo etch at the moment so invested in the Eduard Big Ed kit, after deciding that since I am looking at other Big Ed kits as well that I should join the Eduard Bunny Club for the 15% discount.

Lots of photos to show of this pretty sweet kit, and despite the issues goes together really well from other builds I have read.

I also have the how to build the Typoon book.

Hi Dave,
This looks a great kit from Airfix with plenty to-do, and I am looking forward to reading your build diary, and with your skills I think you will be very busy for a while, looking forward to your next post.

Trev.

ps
( I have just started the Airfix 1.24 Hawker Hurricane )

Hi Dave

No Probs on putting this one up I still need to finish mine when I get time. When I got mine there was just the book you have and no etch so your build will have a bonus part.

Be aware that when making up the cockpit that everything is square or you will have assembly problems later with the fitting of the wings to the fuselage. Also if you add all the bits to the engine you cant fit the cowls so if your building her with the cowls then then half the engine detail stays on the sprue's. It is a very nice kit with plenty of detail thats been moulded in and will look forward to your build.

Regards

Andy

Good review. I've just got this kit on sale from amazon, it should be arriving tomorrow. I was going to build this as my build of the year 2016 but I spotted a revell USS new jersey bb-62 in wh smiths and impulse bought it ☺ so I am going to store the typhoon until later.
Dave can you post a link to where you got the etch from?

Hi Dave,

Started the Hurricane about 3 weeks ago just to have a break from my Spit build, finding this kit very interesting and a pleasure to build
all parts go together very well so far, you may have to spend a bit of time working on the pilot I had to glue and tie the pilot like a mummy so there are no gaps when dry but what a fine detailed pilot we have I am sure there all the same for this series, I sprayed it black all over first to highlight the dark deep parts then hand painted it.

Next I sprayed the inside of the cockpit green as you do, and then moved on to the engine, this is also very detailed and fun to build, so far I have sprayed the main block Satin Black (Vallejo) with red manifolds exhaust ports, and the cam covers Alclad 2 polished aluminium (acl-105) but there is still a lot more bits to fit to the Merlin v12.this is were I am right now,Dave but I must say this is a fine kit to build.

Regards

Trev.