feck, thats a negative...
i paint, but never made more than a Cube in a 3 D Program, and... mapping it with a texture.... nope
why not use the Hurricane like any other object, (deck gun, tower, mast, funnel...)
that way you can use the Hcanes Model (Dat???) file and also preserve its mapping (UVW????) information?
did a CAm -campaign in pacific fighters recently, and it was a Blast.... VERY difficult.