SAD HURGS

I recast the Hurg and it turned out quite well. I decided to have a go at painting up a shell and started off working on the interior of the cockpit area. However I soon realized that that may cause a few problems when it came to painting and it would be better to do the outside of the shell first. I cleaned up the shell and filled in some small pits and blemishes, primed it, and when the primer was dry and had been sanded I gave it it's initial coat of paint. (Moss Green). However the paint reacted strangely and became crackled, so I scraped off what I could and now the body is sitting around looking sad until I can get to Canadian Tire to get some Castrol Super Clean to soak it off. I hope to have it looking reasonably nice by the weekend.


This next photo is of the car I'll be modelling it on. 1947 Hurg chassis W110 here seen at Silverstone for an eight-clubs meeting on the 6th June 1953, driver Ron Goodearl. Ron is still around and helped me identify one of the badges on the front of this car, the one on the left. It is the Chiltern Car Club badge. The one in the middle is the BARC badge and the one over on the right is unknown but "insignificant" according to Ron.



This next photo is of the same car at the Tulip Rally, 1950, driver Brian Holroyd.



This next photo was taken some years later after W110 had been abandoned and left to rot. I'm happy to say though that it was rescued and restored to pristine condition as a standard-body H.R.G. I did have some photos of that one but I can't find them but I'll try to include some with my next post.


Incidentally I'd like to thank Ron Goodearl, and Peter Mitchell of the H.R.G. Association for information regarding this car. Also Peter LLoyd for rummaging around in his shed and digging out an actual Chiltern Car Club badge to scan and sending it to me.