Hurricane MkI, P3731/J, Fighter Flight Hal Far, Hal Far, Malta, August 1940.

This aircraft was amongst the first tropicalised Hurricanes (fitted with the Vokes Air Filter) to arrive in Malta from HMS Argus. It was flown by Pilot Officer "Jock" Barber. Some of the early Hurricanes delivered to Malta were repainted in the Desert Scheme (Dark Earth, Mid Stone and Azure Blue) while others were still wearing the Temperate Land Scheme of Dark Earth, Dark Green and Sky. Also several of the initial delivery Hurricanes were not fitted with the Vokes filter; P3731 featured both the Desert Scheme and the filter. This Hurricane became part of the establishment of 216 Squadron when it was formed in August 1940.

Changes to this model: Pilot repositioned (more or less to where he was originally), gunports moved to correct part of wing, landing lights added (non-functional ;)), skin re-touched here and there, new cockpit wingview, new gunsight lens and repositioned mounting. A new Hurr.flt file has the respositioned muzzle flashes for the corrected gun mountings with EAW standard gun values, or an alternative with Emil's modified gun data.

Credits:

3DZ Model:

This model has now passed through so many hands that crediting is difficult; if you had any part in it and I have not mentioned you, please forgive me. The known contributors are Paulo Morais, Captain Kurt, Claudio Wilches and myself.

Skin:

Again, a bit of a mish-mash, but primarily Flying Sheep for the main skin (with bits from Captain Kurt, Stanley 99 and myself) and Claudio Wilches for the cockpit set which includes Migge's tex and instruments, plus a new wingview and correct round-lensed gunsight by myself.

References:

I am hugely indebted to Maltese Aviation Historian Richard Caruana, whose feature "Defenders of the George Cross Island" in Scale Aviation Modeller (vol.8 iss.4, April 02) provided both the information and colour plates that made it possible for me to present this aircraft. 

Caveat:

The .3dz files as well as the .tpc files are not interchangable with all Hurricane skins. To install, drop the .3dz and .tpc files into your EAW directory, to uninstall delete the files. If you are using Dom's Skin randomiser, drop the files into the relevant sub-folder in the "Hurr" folder in the "Skins" directory.

I hope that you find a good use for this skin. Comments, queries, recriminations etc. welcomed via the SimHQ forum.

Cheers

Stew aka GhostBoy

April 02

 

