Hi Jason, great review with excellent level of detail, thanks. Arma Hobby is a top producer with high quality kits by the look of it, can't wait to get one of their kits on my bench :) Nairana, Dasher and Vindex were all escort carriers, like you rightly guessed. Operation Torch was an Allied landings in Nov 1942 in North African Vichy controlled territories (Morocco and Algeria), British planes had American markings due to very bad Anglo-Vichy relations at the time. The German plane in the background is Ju 290, quite rare aircraft - similarly to FW-200 it was adopted to bomb and maritime reconnaissance role from civilian airliner. It would be a nice kit to make I think :) Also thanks to Gary to lend you the kit for review, nice gesture :) Thanks again and have a great day, Dom
Great review! Arma hobby have a fine reputation for detail in 1/72 and are now foraging into 1/48 with the same high standard it appears! Great first impression of a fabulous looking kit.
It is absolutely amazing. It makes even the recent Tamiya stuff look like from another era... The decal printing I thought looked out of this world in crispness, thinness and yet opacity of the colours. This is the only Hurricane in any scale to get close to the extreme taper of the real wing's wing tips, with that odd top bevel at the end. But they are still a tad thick towards the outer wing, maybe 10%, but quite improvable. Most Hurricane kit wingtips are 200%, Hasegawa and Italeri being the kings of the blimp wings at around 250-300 % in most places. Insane. There is no way to set a correct dihedral with such wing tips... This is the first real Hurricane kit in the larger scales ever.
I have a SMER (Heller) 1/72 II C. It is a 'tad' simpler than the Arma Hobby one but made me want a 1/48 version as well as it is a beautiful aircraft and the Arma Hobby one might be the one to get. Thanks for the impressions.
Nice review Jason, looks lovely. Torch was the North African landings and because of the politics of landing on Vichy French territory, many of the British aircraft carried American markings.
A beautiful kit. The tiger head was on both the 804 squadron hurricanes and then 835 Squadron hurricanes. 804 went on to fly Hellcats. 835 Squadron under lt Burgham took a number of the 804 Sea Hurricanes In this action Burgham shot down the 290. But his Number two Sub Lt Charles Richardson died during the interception.
A fabulous kit Jason, thanks for reviewing as it's on my wish list. And a huge thanks to Gary for sharing!
Hi Jason, great review with excellent level of detail, thanks. Arma Hobby is a top producer with high quality kits by the look of it, can't wait to get one of their kits on my bench :) Nairana, Dasher and Vindex were all escort carriers, like you rightly guessed. Operation Torch was an Allied landings in Nov 1942 in North African Vichy controlled territories (Morocco and Algeria), British planes had American markings due to very bad Anglo-Vichy relations at the time. The German plane in the background is Ju 290, quite rare aircraft - similarly to FW-200 it was adopted to bomb and maritime reconnaissance role from civilian airliner. It would be a nice kit to make I think :) Also thanks to Gary to lend you the kit for review, nice gesture :) Thanks again and have a great day, Dom
Hi Jason, Thanks for another great First Impressions. It was really nice of Gary to loan you the kit. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day. Jeff
Always nice to start my morning off with some Model Kit Stuff.
Good review,you sound impressed!
Great review! Arma hobby have a fine reputation for detail in 1/72 and are now foraging into 1/48 with the same high standard it appears! Great first impression of a fabulous looking kit.
I have a couple of Arma kits in the stash I still haven’t built one yet although they look excellent, great review Jason
Operation Torch was the invasion of North Africa.
It is absolutely amazing. It makes even the recent Tamiya stuff look like from another era... The decal printing I thought looked out of this world in crispness, thinness and yet opacity of the colours. This is the only Hurricane in any scale to get close to the extreme taper of the real wing's wing tips, with that odd top bevel at the end. But they are still a tad thick towards the outer wing, maybe 10%, but quite improvable. Most Hurricane kit wingtips are 200%, Hasegawa and Italeri being the kings of the blimp wings at around 250-300 % in most places. Insane. There is no way to set a correct dihedral with such wing tips... This is the first real Hurricane kit in the larger scales ever.
I have a SMER (Heller) 1/72 II C. It is a 'tad' simpler than the Arma Hobby one but made me want a 1/48 version as well as it is a beautiful aircraft and the Arma Hobby one might be the one to get. Thanks for the impressions.
Hi Jason, glad you enjoyed looking at this new release, probably won't get built until towards the end of the year and am planning to do scheme 3
Let me know what you think when you have built it Gary
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Nice review Jason, looks lovely. Torch was the North African landings and because of the politics of landing on Vichy French territory, many of the British aircraft carried American markings.
A beautiful kit. The tiger head was on both the 804 squadron hurricanes and then 835 Squadron hurricanes. 804 went on to fly Hellcats. 835 Squadron under lt Burgham took a number of the 804 Sea Hurricanes In this action Burgham shot down the 290. But his Number two Sub Lt Charles Richardson died during the interception.
Cheers to Garry !
Seeing what Arma can do with a WW2 kit, I hope they work their way into the Cold War planes.
It’s a Ju-290 bomber, it was to replace the Focke-Wulf Fw200.