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So here are the finished articles. What you see here and in the build thread (https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/a-tale-of-two-hurricanes.41482/) is what’s in the boxes with the sole exception of an aftermarket harness in the Revell model.
I know that this is not supposed to be a comparison, but in the end, people will want to know which model they should spend their hard-earned cash on if they want to build a large scale Hurricane. There is no easy answer to that. This is a model site and there are lots of people here who have the skills to make a great looking Hurricane from the Fly kit, but it is not an easy or straightforward build. If you fancy the challenge, go for it. If you want a more straight forward build, go for this newish Revell kit. Contrary to some reviewers, I did not find it to be up there with the very best, but it is a good fitting and very well engineered kit.
Honestly, If I were to build another Hurricane, I’d use the Revell kit.
There are subtle differences in shape, and I have no idea which is more or less correct, they both look like Hurricanes. My ham-fisted photography will almost certainly fail to capture such subtleties, I can’t really describe them in words, but here are some pictures so you can lay 'spot the difference'. To save typing, the Revell kit is in the Temperate Land Scheme (Dark Green/Dark Earth over Sky) and the tropicalised Fly kit in a tropical scheme (Dark Earth/Middle Stone over Azure Blue).
I know that this is not supposed to be a comparison, but in the end, people will want to know which model they should spend their hard-earned cash on if they want to build a large scale Hurricane. There is no easy answer to that. This is a model site and there are lots of people here who have the skills to make a great looking Hurricane from the Fly kit, but it is not an easy or straightforward build. If you fancy the challenge, go for it. If you want a more straight forward build, go for this newish Revell kit. Contrary to some reviewers, I did not find it to be up there with the very best, but it is a good fitting and very well engineered kit.
Honestly, If I were to build another Hurricane, I’d use the Revell kit.
There are subtle differences in shape, and I have no idea which is more or less correct, they both look like Hurricanes. My ham-fisted photography will almost certainly fail to capture such subtleties, I can’t really describe them in words, but here are some pictures so you can lay 'spot the difference'. To save typing, the Revell kit is in the Temperate Land Scheme (Dark Green/Dark Earth over Sky) and the tropicalised Fly kit in a tropical scheme (Dark Earth/Middle Stone over Azure Blue).
