Pegasus 1:48 Hawker Hurricane Mk.1- 303 Sqn

[Ian]

Witam,

As my second project after coming back to plastic modelling after several years I have decided to build the Pegasus Models 1:48 Hurricane of 303 Sqn during the Battle of Britain. I have been researching 303 Sqn for some time now and I'm amazed by their kill tally of 126 Luftwaffe aircraft during the BofB, more than any other Sqn by a long way.

The kit is actually a snap together kit but it has very good surface detail and fits together really quite well.  However you get what you pay for I suppose, the undercarriage legs are a bit overdone and the pitot tube is missing.  Worse of all is like the old Monogram kit I finished last week, it does not have the wing leading edge landing lights installed. 

As you can see in the third photo I started with the wings and cut out the light apertures. I have cut up the base of an old Airfix clear plastic stand to try and get the curved lens covers but they are a little too big.  Does anyone have any ideas how I could get some proper ones?

Next I detailed the cockpit, there is quite a lot of rather heavy interior detail built into the kit already all I did really was add some seat belts. Next job is to add the wings, it looks like I will need a bit of filler around the wing roots though!