Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb Reconnaissance 1/48

The Hawker Hurricane was a single-seat British fighter aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s, designed and primarily built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for the Royal Air Force.
The Hurricane was developed in several versions: interceptor, fighter-bomber and ground attack aircraft.
Production Hurricane Mk.IIb Trop fighter aircraft were converted for reconnaissance duties in two main ways.
In 1941, "real" Hurricane PR.IIs were developed at the Heliopolis base in Egypt - unarmed, equipped with a number of cameras and fitted with additional fuel tanks to increase range instead of cannons in the wings.
The second variant were tactical reconnaissance aircraft, called "Tac-R" - which differed from fighter aircraft only in that they had a photo camera and an additional radio for communicating with ground troops.
They were armed, but often some of the guns were removed to reduce the weight of the aircraft, which were eventually loaded with additional photographic equipment.

Plastic model kit

• with painting templates
• with 3D printed resin parts

3 decal options:

• Hurricane PR Mk II trop, BM969, No. 3 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (India) RAF, Dum Dum airfield, West Bengal, second half of 1942
• Hurricane FR Mk IIb trop, AM358/H, No. 318 Squadron PAF (Polish Air Force), Quassassin, Egypt, turn of the year 1943/44
• Hurricane FR Mk IIb trop, HV538/B, No. 6 Squadron IAF (Indian Air Force), Ratnap airfield, East Bengal, February-March 1944

Scale 1:48

unbuilt / unpainted

Paint and glue not included