HB have over-simplified this one, after building the superb MiG-15 kits earlier this year this one is a dissapointment as with a little more effort they could have made an accurate Hurricane but instead they have flattened the fuselage sides and spoilt the nose shape with ill-fitting parts, the base of the kit is just two parts, a solid wing and a clumsily rendered fuselage.
The locating pins for these are very tight so I slackened them by shortening the tops of the pins and enlarging the sockets with a drill before glueing these parts together.
The fuselage faults shown after assembly, the nose is fixable but correcting the rear fuselage is just too much work and not worth the effort. I had hoped that this kit would be a low cost path to an accurate metal wing Hurricane and had intended to build this as a planned addition to my display shelves but this eyesore will have no part in my collection.
David.
