Hurricane

[Bomber_12th]

Another beautiful one, Nick! For those that don't know, the Flying Heritage Collection's Hurricane is painted in those Canadian markings seen in Nick's latest screenshots. http://www.flyingheritage.com/TemplatePlane.aspx?contentId=13


With regard to recent discussion, these are all of the Hurricanes currently capable of flying, at this time:

Hurricane Mk.XII N54FH - Owned by the Flying Heritage Collection
Hurricane Mk.IIB N943HH - Owned by Jerry Yagen/Military Aviation Museum/Fighter Factory
Hurricane Mk.IV CF-TPM - Owned by Vintage Wings of Canada
Hurricane Mk.IIA F-AZXR - Owned by Jan Friso Roozen
Hurricane Mk.I G-HUPW - Owned by Peter Vacher
Hurricane Mk.XII G-HURI - Owned by the Historic Aircraft Collection
Hurricane Mk.IIC PZ865 - Owned by the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Hurricane Mk.IIC LF363 - Owned by the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Hurricane Mk.IIB G-CBOE - Owned by Karl-Friedemann Grimminger
Hurricane Mk.X G-CHTK - Owned by Peter Monk
Hurricane Mk.IIB G-HHII - Owned by Peter Teichman
Sea Hurricane Mk.IB G-BKTH - Owned by the Shuttleworth Trust

In addition...

Hurricane Mk.I P3717 (G-HITT) owned by Hugh Taylor should be flying very soon now that the restoration is complete - taxi trials and test flights to be commencing.
Hurricane Mk.I P2902 (G-ROBT) owned by Rick Roberts is currently in an advanced state of restoration to fly at Hawker Restorations.
Hurricane Mk.IIB Z5207 (G-BYDL) owned by Karl-Friedemann Grimminger is under restoration to fly.
Hurricane Mk.I V7497 (G-HRLI) is registered to Hawker Restorations and under restoration to fly.
Hurricane Mk.IIB AM274, previously owned/under restoration by John Norman/JNE Aviation in the US, is now owned by the Vormezeele family in Belgium (no strangers to warbirds) and will be completed to fly.
Hurricane Mk.XII (N96RW) owned by the Lone Star Flight Museum has been under long-term restoration to fly again in Colorado.
Hurricane Mk.XII RCAF 5447 (C-GGAJ) owned by Vintage Wings of Canada is in an advanced state of restoration to fly, a restoration that is being done in-house.
Hurricane Mk.XII RCAF 5481 (former C-FDNL), previously owned by Ed Russell, is now in Australia and is undergoing a repair/recovering and slight rebuild (and total repaint) process at Pay's Air Service before flying again.

Besides those, there are some other Hurricanes undergoing restoration to static at this time (including one Mk.I in England with the early fabric wing). Kermit Weeks has collected many components/sections to have one restored to fly, when/if he decides to do so. I believe Jerry Yagen/Military Aviation Museum has a well-preserved Hurricane that was recovered from a bog in Russia several years back, perhaps in storage (in addition to the one he has that is restored and flies).

 

[Bomber_12th]

With regards to warbird finishes these days, it is getting very rare to see glossy paint on any warbirds being painted today, other than where it actually was used originally (for instance, the red paint used on the noses of 4th FG Mustangs was actually glossy, and the Dark Sea Blue paint used on Navy aircraft in 1945 and post-WWII was glossy). Even flat paint will shine when light hits it, and some owners/restorers have chosen to use an "egg shell" finish, which is sort of a semi-flat/semi-gloss, which also isn't wrong in various applications either (for instance, the Flying Heritage Collection used that style finish on their Fw-190A-5 restoration, as that aircraft, and others in its squadron, were polished regularly in the field by its ground crew - a shine that can be easily seen in period photos even). Also, there's a big difference between fresh flat paint on fresh skins (which shouldn't be called glossy), compared to aged flat paint (faded/stained) on aged skins (dented/oil canning/general imperfections). None of the restored Hurricanes in all of the photos I've posted here have glossy paint (including the Rhodesian silver-painted example), and not one of the others flying today could be said to have glossy paint either. Besides the actual flat/gloss finish, today's restorers/painters, in general, also are getting the colors, demarcation lines, and placements and sizes of markings more correct/authentic than ever before. I know some of the restorers/painters, with the immense research they do going into recreating these paint schemes, even tap into private photo collections with photos of the original aircraft/paint schemes that haven't ever been published/seen publicly before.

 

[Ian Warren]

One off the things pointed out to me and with the rebuild off EX Warbird NZ P3551, the quality or type of paint had change, it chemical value giving the aircraft a better resistant coat and protection also giving that extra gloss, course parked up after the days flying it was lovingly cleaned , fortunate to see the build of that aircraft at the Air New Zealand engineering base in Christchurch, the techniques used were the same as WWII but with better materials.

 

[NickB]

Uploaded at Flightsim.com. Probably just a couple more that I'd like to do before moving on to something else.

 

[DaveB]

Lovely Nick I've been exercising my new paints regularly and these three will ensure the paint doesn't fade so quickly on the others!!

ATB
DaveB

 

[NickB]

NHB is my personnel aircraft so won't get uploaded and the number 4 is a training unit so I might practice weathering it a bit. If you never see it again it will be because my weathering was c7*p. Like to do another Sea Hurricane and see about "adding" a tail hook.

 

[DaveB]

Works for me

ATB
DaveB

 

[NickB]

Works for me

ATB
DaveB

Dave you may recognise the crest on NHB.

 

[DaveB]

Were I a betting man Nick.. I'd go for the City of Wolverhampton crest

ATB
DaveB

 

[NickB]

Last batch at flightsim.com.

 

[Bomber_12th]

All of these are absolutely superb, Nick! Thank you very, very much for lending your time and skills to making and providing these repaints - they've got me flying the Hurricane again. Many of these last batch are personal favorites.

 

[DaveB]

Oo-er.. he's back Like all of those Nick.. especially 'M'. Not seen that variation before

ATB
DaveB

 

[Bomber_12th]

That one is a Sea Hurricane scheme, Dave. ; )

 

[SpaceWeevil]

Love the desert scheme and the contrast between your UP-W and the grubby original - and at last we have Pegs from Hangar 11 - thank you!

 

[DaveB]

That one is a Sea Hurricane scheme, Dave. ; )

Yup.. I'd guessed as much. Still.. not common to see one wearing those clothes. A very welcome partner to 7L Tks for the confirmation

ATB
DaveB

 

[Bradburger]

All of these are absolutely superb, Nick! Thank you very, very much for lending your time and skills to making and providing these repaints - they've got me flying the Hurricane again. Many of these last batch are personal favorites.

Indeed!

Superb work Nick, off to download now.

Cheers

Paul

 

[NickB]

Thanks chaps, glad you like them. They will probably be the last, at least for a while, unless I find an interesting one to do.
Going to have a look at JF's BoB Spitfire now but I have only recently noticed that the bump mapping is a bit off on the right side of the nose. Not sure if I can fix that, anyway, I'll give it a go.

Cheers
NickB

 

[Portia911]

Thanks again for your great Hurricane skins, Nick. Good luck with the Spitfire!

 

[dhasdell]

Thanks again for your great Hurricane skins, Nick. Good luck with the Spitfire!

Ow yiss!