[Kristorf]

Still fiddling with these, trying to get it right.















Still trying to 'dirty' the trop filter, but its proving harder than I thought to oil streak it.

[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

I think they look very nice, although some of the numbers on the aircraft seem to be on lighter patches of fuselage. Is that intentional?

[Kristorf]

Some of the aircraft went out with complete RAF codes, the Russians wanted VVS codes added so the old codes were overpainted and new codes added.

[Guest]

Lovely m8 Any update on the spit pack? 8)

[pursuivant]

Some of the aircraft went out with complete RAF codes, the Russians wanted VVS codes added so the old codes were overpainted and new codes added.

Makes sense, since Latin characters wouldn't mean anything to pilots and ground crew who were only familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet.

[mandrill7]

Kristorf, why would they have the trop filter in Murmansk?

[Kristorf]

Kristorf, why would they have the trop filter in Murmansk?

Global warming???

Dunno mate, but they did, perhaps they were all that was available at the time, possibly being taken off one convoy for the Med/Far East and moved to Russia.

[caldrail]

That suprises me too, since I was under the impression that some of the Hurricanes at least were tired Battle of Britain veterans that never had trop filters at all.

From Wikipedia...

Mk II Hurricanes played an important air defence role in 1941, when the Soviet Union found itself under threat from the German Army approaching on a broad front stretching from Leningrad, Moscow, and to the oil fields in the south. Britain's decision to aid the Soviets meant sending supplies by sea to the far northern ports, and as the convoys would need to sail within range of enemy air attack from the Luftwaffe based in neighbouring Finland, it was decided to deliver a number of Hurricane Mk IIBs, flying with Nos. 81 and 134 Squadrons of No. 151 Wing RAF, to provide protection. Twenty-four were transported on the carrier Argus, arriving just off Murmansk on 28 August 1941, and another 15 crated aircraft on board merchant vessels. In addition to their convoy protection duties, the aircraft also acted as escorts to Russian bombers. Enemy attention to the area declined in October, at which point the RAF pilots trained their Soviet counterparts to operate the Hurricanes themselves and, by the end of the year, the RAF's role had ended, but the aircraft remained behind and became the first of thousands of Allied aircraft that would be accepted by the Soviet Union.

Live and learn I guess. The Russian Hurricanes were falling by the wayside by 1943, and some ended their lives as unsuccesful mailplanes.

[hsloan]

i just went to an airshow, and saw that plane, (the same modle to) looks like it could have existed :geek:
i also know alot about the air war from WWII, so if i say its historical, its pretty fu*king historical! :thumbsup:
just probly was not in russia, maby italy though, also, when it gonna be out for download?

now, off to bag another hun :giveup: :giveup: :guncool: :giveup: :giveup:
ooooh yeya

[Kristorf]

i also know alot about the air war from WWII, so if i say its historical, its pretty fu*king historical! :thumbsup:
just probly was not in russia, maby italy though, also, when it gonna be out for download?

Brush up on your history then mate, photo's sent by Tim Elkington (pilot of GO-31) taken in Murmansk, winter 1941. :wink: :wink:







Thx for the comments though :wink:

[Username]

Kristorf, why would they have the trop filter in Murmansk?

Global warming???

Dunno mate, but they did, perhaps they were all that was available at the time, possibly being taken off one convoy for the Med/Far East and moved to Russia.

In much of Russia the summer sunshine converted the muddy quagmires of the spring thaw into dust. If you read 'JG 54' by Held, Trautloft and Ekkehard Bob, Hannes Trautloft makes it clear that one of his abiding memories of Russia was the clouds of red dust which overhung every airfield in the summer months. So, at certain times of the year a trop filter was advantageous. It also gave some protection against carburretor icing in the far north (to which the Merlin engine was prone) by slowing down the air before it entered the carb chamber.

[SparrowThree]

i just went to an airshow, and saw that plane, (the same modle to) looks like it could have existed :geek:
i also know alot about the air war from WWII, so if i say its historical, its pretty fu*king historical! :thumbsup:
just probly was not in russia, maby italy though, also, when it gonna be out for download?

now, off to bag another hun :giveup: :giveup: :guncool: :giveup: :giveup:
ooooh yeya

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