What if - Spanish Civil War Hurricane Mk 1... any takers?
I am currently loving all things pre-WW2 and wondered if anyone would like to put together a Republican marked Hurricane. I am working along the following narrative as an alternative timeline of events for the Spanish conflict.
Following the defeat in 1929 general election, Stanley Baldwin was found hanged at his country home. Close friends and aides had said that the pressure of loss contributed to him taking his own life and yet said that the events surrounding his death seemed out of character and possibly even suspicious. The police, despite being under pressure to investigate further had little or no grounds and the coroner pronounced the cause of death as “misadventure”. This event had a far reaching effect on the state of British politics. As such the newly elected Labour government recognised the state of the nation and set about a massive investment plan to stabilise the economy.
Labour held onto power in the subsequent elections. When hostilities began in Spain, the Labour government recognised that the threat posed by the fascist union of Hitler and Mussolini was far greater than that of communism and as such positioned Britain to firmly support the Republicans during the Spanish conflict. This began by overturning the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870, effectively de-criminalising the act of seeking paid mercenary work as well as offering many unemployed miners the opportunity to earn a non-military wage under the Freedom of Work Act 1937. Critics of the policy claimed this was no more than “blood money” but against a backdrop of increasing unemployed and poverty nearly 10,000 took the offer.
Consequently, Britain took a firm policy of intervention supplying man power, aircraft, tanks, arms and importantly fuel. Sailing from Portsmouth, in March 1937 for the port of Cartagena was the first flotilla of aid, amongst the crates were the first shipment of the latest British fighter, the Hawker Hurricane.
So, would anyone care to indulge me in creating a skin for this? I was thinking something along the lines of standard pre war RAF silver with republican colours:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bbSqbT4u2xc/TNVAx0UKnmI/AAAAAAAAAY0/I9EO4B68tNY/s1600/HawkerHurricanePrototypeFirstConfig.jpgThen with the added red band across the fuselage and the three coloured bands across the tail –
So we get something like this perhaps?
http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/279/pics/75_3_b1.jpgAnybody fancy bringing my somewhat far-fetched scenario to life please?
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