Hawker Tornado-Typhoon-Tempest-Sea Fury Line

models and photos by Raúl Hrubisko

text by Martin Waligorski

Raul Hrubisko began modelling at the age of 14. His interest, lake many other modellers’, was sparked by an imaginative book, a wartime story involving the Mosquito. Soon followed the interest for the airplane and then for modelling. Royal Air Force aircraft of the WW2 era have remained the focal point of Rauls interest ever since.

But Rauls passion for modelling lead him to some extraordinary undertakings. His aim is to model all the aircraft types that flew with the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and all the Commonwealth in the time frame between 1934 and 1947, in all major versions. And to include also Lend-Lease and captured enemy types. An entire Royal Air Force in miniature – an epic work which he himself estimated to about 1,000 models.

While many of us would think about it as impossible, apparently there is no such word in Rauls vocabulary. Today his collection counts well over 300 models in total. Indeed, we have previously shown his finished line of over 100 Spitfires of all marks (see Modelling for a Lifetime – A Story About the Ultimate Spitfire Collection)

The next finished sub-collection from Rauls workshop is the Hawker Typhoon-Tornado-Tempest-Sea Fury line of fighters.

All types and subtypes in the Typhoon-Tornado-Tempest-Sea Fury line amount to 36 models

All Hawker Typhoons, from the Nivo Green prototype to late-war Mk. IBs.

The Academy Typhoon and Tempest kits were the easiest to build of the lot, and look very good when finished.

List of all models in the collection is included below.

Tornado prototypes were tries with an array of different engine/radiator configurations. All variants required conversion from the Airfix Typhoon kit, here the 3rd Tornado prototype HG 641.

Also Tempest got its share of engine experimentation, here one of the prototypes with a circular radiator á-la Fw 190D. A conversion of Heller Tempest kit.

Series-production Furies.

This article was originally published in IPMS Stockholms Magazine in May 2005