Mirosław Ferić
The Airfix Hurricane MkI is one of the few models available of the true champion of the Battle of Britain. It does feature raised panel lines and some minor fitting issues, especially when joining the aircraft body to the wings. But taping up the wings to eliminate the gaps and to achieve the correct dihedral solved that. I also added a floor to the cockpit, a gun sight, a late model radio mast, pitot tube, clear plastic position and navigation lights and the auxiliary gun sight as well as the rearview mirror. The decals came from Techmod, and this model represents a Hurricane flown by Miroslaw Feric, a Polish pilot (his father was Croatian, hence the name). He started out his career in a P.11c during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and his diary formed the basis of the unit history of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron of the RAF. He flew with the Poles that opted to fly for the French before evacuating to England. He was to become the eleventh ranked Polish ace with eight and 2/3 kills and one probable before being killed when his Spitfire broke up above Northolt at an altitude of 3,000 feet in January 1942.
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