RNZAF Hurricane - help please

[diamant]

Hello to all

My name is Santiago Hrubisko and I live in Argentine. My father, Raul Hrubisko, began modelling at the age of 14. His interest, like many other modellers', was sparked by an imaginative book, a wartime story involving the Mosquito. Soon followed the interest for the airplane and then for modelling. Our aim is to model all the aircraft types that flew with the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and all the Commonwealth in the time frame between 1934 and 1947, in all major versions. And to include also Lend-Lease and captured enemy types.

We have just finished the project which include the aircrafts designed and used by the Commonwealth aircraft Corporation during WWII . Please find attached the following pictures:



More pictures here
gregers.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=9875


Since last year I have been doing a research for our current project, the Hawker Hurricane collection. I have selected aprox 100 Hurricanes. My father has made 21 so far. The reason of this post is that I would like to include a RNZAF Hurricane in this collection.

I will really appreciate if someone could help us telling if there was any interesting NZ-related Hurricane color schemes that we should include.

This is the list of all the Hurricane done so far
Hurricane Prototype
Hurricane Mk I L1551 - Sqn 111 - Northolt, UK - July 1938
Hurricane Mk I L1584 - Sqn 111 - Circa - July 1938
Hurricane Mk I L1599 - Sqn 56 - Circa - Late 1938
Hurricane Mk I L1669 Mk I Trop - Martlesham Heath prior to its depatch to Khartoum - May-39
Hurricane Mk I L1750 - A/AAE - 24/05/1939
Hurricane Mk I Pabby III - Sqn 73 - Rouvres, France - Early 1940
Hurricane Mk I LR/R L1800 - Sqn 56 - North Weald - Mid 1939
Hurricane Mk I Y L2006 - Group Pilot Pool - Sutton Bridge – 1939
Hurricane Mk I LK/H L2047 - 87 Sqn - Lille-Seclin, France - 01/05/1940
Hurricane Mk I SO/K P3221 – 145 Sqn - Westhampnett - August 1940
Hurricane Mk I MF X 57 P3549 - 59 OTU - Pilot Officer Bernardo de Laminat (Anglo Argentine Pilot) - RAF Crosby Eden -April 1942. Used to train combat pilot. The Argentine Volunteer Pilot Officer Bernardo De Laminar used her in air acrobatic, formation flight, form fighter attacks section and dogfight with photogun during April 1942. (Reference: “Wing of Thunder” by Claudio Meunier).
Hurricane Mk I GN/A P3576 – 249 Sqn - Flt Lt. James Nicholson (VC) - Boscombe Down - August 1940
Hurricane Mk I DT/A - V6864 - 257 Sqn - North Weald - Winter 1940/1941
Hurricane Mk I 3 - Z4769 - Takoradi - August 1941
Hurricane Mk I RF/J - V6665 - 303 Sqn - Northolt, UK - August 1940
Hurricane Mk X RA/S - 1380 - 128 RCAF - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - June / July 1942
Hurricane Mk I LK/A - P2798 – 87 Sqn - December 1940
Hurricane Mk I P - P2992 – 527 Sqn -1943
Hurricane Mk I V7101 – 69 Sqn - May/june 1941
Hurricane Mk I V7476 - 1 (APU) – Australia - 1944


Here are some pictures.










Many thanks in advance

Kind regards
Santiago

[Dave Homewood]

Welcome to the forum Santiago. Awesome models and wow, what a collection. Your local model shop owner must love you guys!

That red prototype Hurricane is interesting, I thought the prototypes were always blue like the one beside it. Nice to see this, it's something very different.

Of course the one you mentioned above, "Hurricane Mk I Pabby III - Sqn 73 - Rouvres, France - Early 1940" should actually be Paddy III. That was Cobber Kain's personal aircraft and thus you have one New Zealand related machine (though he wasn't RNZAF).

As mentioned to you via email, I suggest:
- AVM Keith Park's personal Hurricane OK-1
- A No. 488 Squadron RNZAF Hurricane
- a No. 487 (NZ) Squadron Hurricane
- a No. 57 Squadron Hurricane in 1940-41, most were flown by kiwis and their aircraft all had silver ferns on the side apparently.

I'd love to see what other people here suggest for interesting RNZAF or NZ-related colour schemes.

[phas3e]

Heres a Kiwi Flown Battle of Britain Hurri (also by one of the few American pilots to fight in the battle)

[flyjoe180]

What an absolutely fantastic collection!

[diamant]

Hi Dave

I completely forgot the Kober's Hurricane. Sorry.

Thanks for the profile, phas3e.

I would love to see if something more regarding the No. 488 Squadron RNZAF Hurricane or No. 487 (NZ) Squadron Hurricane appears.

Kind regards
Santiago

[Dave Homewood]

No. 488's were simply straight from the shipping crate and never had markings, all in the standard RAF Europe colours of 1941 I believe. I've not got photos of 487's ones, but I guees there must be some in Paul Sortehaug's book on that squadron. Does anyone have that book?

[northcro]

486 Squadron (NZ) RAF Hurricane IIB Z3029 SA-R the regular Hurricane of Flt.Lt Harvey Sweetman (the aircraft he shot down a Dornbier Do217 on the night 23/24 July 1942) is displayed in a watercolour illustration by Douglas Kelway Pope of Dunedin on Page 382 of Paul Sortehaug's book "The Wild Winds".

There is another photograph of Harvey Sweetman then a Flight Commander posing in front of his pranged Hurricane May 11, 1942 on Page 12 after it had overshot the wet airdrome surface and slithered into a boundary fence hedge at Wittering wiping out the undercarriage. Hard to determine whether it was Hurricane Z3029.

Also refer www.rafweb.org/SqnMark485-490.htm
for 486 and 487 Squadron Hurricane drawings showing some markings and colour schemes.

[diamant]

Many thanks for your comments and suggestions.

I will see if I can add one more. It is hard to maintain the quantity of Hurris selected under the figure of 100 models.

Cheers
Santiago

[Andy Wright]

Excellent collection, Santiago, well done. Cobber Kain's aircraft sprang to mind immediately but you've got that sorted aready. I was going to suggest Brian Carbury but had to check what he flew - Spitfire.

S/L Derek Ward DFC and Bar who commanded 73 Sqn in (joy of joy) North Africa. No idea what his Hurri would have looked like but a desert scheme to go with the other two chin-radiator Hurris you've got already? He was shot down by Marseille.