Hi guys!
OK, this is a continuation build of my Monogram Hawker Hurricane that I was doing on the Waring Weather build during the end of August. I did not finish it. I ran out of time because I came in late, and really just started back in this hobby about 4 months ago. Never finished any aircraft as well so here goes with the ongoing effort to continue my build of Hurricane Mk IID.
1st a small (short) review from the older WW startup.
(NOTE: If you would like to review some of that work, especially some of the hurricane pictures of the Mk IIC, IID and Mk IV that made on those posts towards the bottom of the page, please visit here if you have the time.)
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I purchased this kit in the early 90's from ACME surplus we had here in the US, when I got back into modeling for a short time and put it in my stash until now. Yea a bit of an older mold but I got it for 99 cents, but for some reason Monogram dumped this kit to ACME and made it available to many at that time. The only problem is that it was packaged without a box but contained everything: ins/decals/sprues/clear parts but . . . . .
They did re-released this kit a bit later with this box below. (never had it, this is just for show of what it would look like if you bought one now and is available on fleebay).
It was reboxed many times and actually this particular kit was first molded in 1964!
I had the one (show below) but my mom got me this release in 1968, which was the 1st rebox. I built it back then as well, so you can see why I liked it. It was one of the few aircraft models I ever built. I did not keep the box (who does) but what goes around comes around I guess. At least sprue wise and I got it again in the 90's. (note these pictures are copies of the boxes from scalemates, non of which I have)
Now having a bit of my past in about 50 years, this Hurricane has followed me. Twice, but now its being built.
Here is an expanded view of everything after I opened the bag a few months ago.
During my initial build in the Waring weather GB I was starting to do a bit of scratch (and not being a scratch builder either) I was going to try and improve this kit that was very poor with NO undercarage detail at all (because it was made for kids to have a working undercarriage, for both flight and landing) also it was designed like most of the kits - back in the day... to have NO internal canopy detail at ALL other than a sad pilot and a simple back support to hold him.
It also had a closed canopy short of seeing inside at all. I did cut it open for a possible inside view but opted for the one from squadron mentioned briefly in the old WWGB post.
Here is a mockup of what it may have looked like if the working undercarriage was installed. (I scratch-built my own as you will see in the next post... in landing only form as we all like to do) It did fold down if the wings were glued but was very Clunky and you had to remove some strut pieces as well to make it close. I remember mine broke very quickly too when I was a boy. It was a selling point I believe for monogram back then.
Thats it (Below)for internal canopy detail! The pilot has a post on his back that plugged into the backboard. Then just slide him into the fuselage stumps and your done, and buttin him up! Pop the canopy on and your finished.
They also included a (so so) decal cockpit display that only could be attached after the fuselages were together....hmmm OK did I say this mold was from 1964? Hmmm... Thats when the Beatles started there music too.
I did make a decal holder out of scratch tho to hold the decal and allow me to slide it in during the cockpit redesign with a seat, but as soon as I was trying to apply it, I forgot how powerful solvaset was and it folded over so bad I had to discard it.
Then I got this a few weeks ago! YIPPEEE!!
OK, here is page one (from the 1964 instructions, Monogram in the top right!) of this cool piece of aircraft Im building here and the top photo of this bird is in fact the Mk IID and not the Mk IIC that I was going to build in the group build! It will not be the Mk IIC now! Yes I am building the D
Why? (because the wings 
told me too.) 
Here is page 1 from my kit (below) that was in the bag from the 90's (note, no Monogram in that one?? Why?).
(a very cool history of the model company here on this kit)
I will reveal the reason why in the next few posts
and continue the scratch stuff I was doing towards the end of the WW build and the new stuff I am doing now. I hope you enjoyed this "short" - "where we are so far" thing. Please ask any questions as Im continuing this fun blast from the past. 
I would like to thank all those that viewed and commented about the basic work I was starting to do with this plane so much and helping me step by step for something I have not done in a long time. Now I can do it a bit more, and finish it to make it look (hopefully) nicer than the one I did as a young boy. Hmm for some reason, I dont think I even painted it back then. I guess thats why I picked the name DrSprue and not DrPaint for this forum?
Thank you for stopping by and looking and listening to my story, ya gotta love this bird!
Kind of like a bump, I measured .44 of an inch on the port side thickness and a little over .4 on the starboard, just on the side of the struts. About a 1 mm too wide. No it was not the undercarriage stuff I did, that was very thin. If you look at the wing sprue layouts way up at the top of this post, you can kind of see the warp (and a twist) on the left side of the wing near the bag.
) This would squeeze the port wing to any width I decided by the threaded nut and when done.... Put the 40 mm Vickers cover over it (as per the instructions) which will make this a Mk II....D! One of the 5 versions this kit had.
(OK yea...now Im joking!)
