Trumpeter 2416 Hurricane Mk.IIC/Trop 1:24 Scale Model Aircraft Kit

The Hurricane Mk.II was powered by the Merlin Mk.XX and entered service in the fall of 1940. The aircraft continued to be 'improved' as the Mk.IIB was up-gunned to twelve Browning .303 machine guns, the Mk.IIC swapped the machine guns for four 20mm Hispano cannons and two underwing pylons, while the Mk.IID became the tank killer armed with two 40mm cannons in underwing pods and one Browning .303 in each wing armed with tracer ammunition to aim the big guns.

Many of these aircraft found their way into North Africa to try and blunt Rommel's Afrika Korps. These were modified with engine dust filters to keep the sand out of the engine. While the Mark II was effective against the early Bf 109s, the aircraft was soon out-classed by improved Messerscmitts and the new Focke Wulf Fw 190. As with most fighters that can no longer hold their own air-to-air, the Hurricane continued to serve in-theater as a fighter bomber. The cannons of the Mk.IIC/Trop were effective against the softer armour plating on the top of the German tanks.

This kit offers clear side cowling panels should you care to display the engine from one or both sides.

The cockpit is nicely appointed down to the acetate instrument faces that show through the clear instrument panel (that you paint up short of the instrument glass faces). The Sutton harness is provided in photo-etch.

The ailerons, flaps, elevators, and rudder are all separately moulded and can positioned to taste. There are no hinges, so the control surfaces will stay put after assembly.

Markings are included for two aircraft, the Hurricane Mk.IIC/Trop, HL735, 294 Sqn, "The Mac Robert Fighter/Sir Roderic" and the Hurricane Mk.IIC/Trop, BP592, 213 Sqn, AK-G

While the 294 Sqn aircraft wears a standard desert camo scheme, the 213 Sqn example is a bit unusual. It too wears the standard desert colours, but the nose from the windscreen forward and the wing leading edges are wearing a desert yellow with green splotch scheme usually found on desert Italian or German aircraft.