RAG04968 - Revell - 1/32 Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIb

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Hurricane Mk IIB
Fitted with racks allowing them to carry two 250lb or two 500lb bombs. This lowered the top speed of the Hurricane, but by this point mixed sweeps of Hurricanes carrying bombs, protected by a screen of fighter Hurricanes were not uncommon. The same racks allowed the Hurricane to carry two 45 imp gal drop tanks instead of the bombs, nearly doubling the Hurricane's fuel load.
Hurricane Mk II was equipped with a new and slightly longer propeller spinner, and 4 additional wing-mounted .303 in Browning machine guns; for a total of 12 guns. The first aircraft were built in February 1941 and were renamed Mark IIB in April 1941. A total of 3,050 IIBs built to November 1942, 1,883 by Hawker, 867 by Gloster Aircraft Company and 300 by the Austin Aero Company.

Hurricane Mk XII
Canadian-built variant. Originally designated the Mk.IIB (Can), designation changed to Mk.XII in April 1943. An order for 400 Mk.II airframes for the RCAF powered by a 1,300 hp (970 kW) Packard Merlin 29, armed with twelve 0.303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns with production starting in June 1942. 150 sent to Britain in 1943 either engineless or fitted with a Merlin 28.

*Sea Hurricane Mk XII

50 Canadian built Sea Hurricane I delivered in late 1941 and early 1942. Initially fitted with Merlin III as mark I, the survivors became Mk XII when fitted with Merlin 29.

*Sprues show parts for Sea Hurricane included as well.