This build is the coming together of items from various sources. Tracy bought me Paul Lucas' Colour Conundrum Compendium No.1 for Christmas and in the chapter headed 'Middle East Confusion' there's a profile of a Mk.1 (Trop) Hurricane from 3 Squadron RAAF, based at Benina, Libya, circa February 1941. The upper surfaces of which are standard European finish, for the period, but the undersides are 'Middle East Blue', an unlisted/identified colour and the areas that caught my eye are on the nose, spinner and wing leading edges, which are Sky Blue mottled with purple and dark grey. During a discussion with Neil he told me this was to 'mimic' the finish of Italian aircraft in that theatre, so being weird enough (is that me or the finish?) I had to attempt this finish on the part built Hurricane that Zak had kindly passed on to me. Now all I needed was a Mk.I's Trop filter. The Revell Mk.II has a Trop filter but it's the wrong shape, luckily during our discussion Neil said Paul Lucas had produced one in resin and duely contacted him to see if he could get one for me. This arrived by a circuitous route so thanks to everyone involved.