A quick photo update on the diorama: primer coat applied to hull and sanded. Base coat coming this weekend, then the catapult and other details (they’re not actually glued in place in these pics) can start going down. Finally it feels like I’m heading for the home stretch!

Thanks Tim, all good now.

A film about the MSFU? I’ll be first in line for that on DVD! Would love to know more once you’re free to talk of it Tim. 😎

Hello Tim,

I apologize for being a stranger around this and the Britmodeller forum for some time now. Family life took a bit of a bad turn about a year ago so hobbies had to take a back seat, but I’m back on top now and have been thinking about my commitment to you to build your Hurricat LU-V. About time I got started isn’t it?!! 😀

Barrie – colour? Looks a bit like hand-coloured?

And did not all a/c have code letters??

= Tim

I have a digital copy of that pic where the colors look quite different – seemingly an old color pic that aged badly. I used Photoshop to correct it and interestly enough it looks almost exactly like the one Barrie posted.

Tim – regarding code letters, I have seen one or two pics of CAM ship Hurri’s without them. Can’t explain that, though in Barrie’s pic there has been some overpainting (common with the rough conditions at sea so I’ve read) so possibly a code letter is obscured by that.

Thank you gentlemen. More Hurricat photoshop work coming soon…. 😉

That is correct. The modified RAF machines became Sea Hurri 1A’s, though were still RAF aircraft because they were under MSFU control. Sea Hurri 1B’s were purpose built with arrester gear for carrier use, so were FAA, and were also equipped with the CAM catapult spools.

Did the CAM equiped Hurricanes have the same spools as the the Sea Hurricanes?

Yes, same spools. Both are in fact Sea Hurricanes, CAM Hurricanes (Sea Hurricane 1A) differed externally from the Sea Hurri 1B in that the ‘B’ had an arrester hook.