Hawker Hurricanes in the snow Mouse Pad

Winter - Hawker Hurricanes of No. 315 Polish Squadron RAF Hawker Hurricanes of No. 315 (Polish) Squadron RAF. Acrylic on canvas board. When painting the aircraft and all important hard-suffering groundcrew, the work of online historians and artists colourising period black and white photos were a great resource to study the groundcrew. And this comment on a Polish RAF history website about the snow issues was particularly key for inspiration: "On February 3 1941, the squadron received its first aircraft, Hurricane MkI (L1740), followed by several others in a next few days. Squadron's first training flights started on February 8th. There were many problems with newly arrived aircraft, which needed a lot attention and the ground personnel was lacking in number. The area received quite a bit of snowfall that further hindered training."