Tag: Hawker

• Hawker Demon – Part Three – I Was Right

  

  Well, it had to happen some time, eh? The Airfix Vintage Classic Hawker Demon is a colourful gem. The decision to pair it with the Bristol Bulldog was brilliant; it is every bit as good. The building fit was straightforward – once the sinks and posts had been dealt with. Very little filling needed on…

  Dick Stein

  November 22, 2021

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Hawker, RAF, Vintage Classic

• Hawker Demon – Part One – VC Airfix

  

  That’s ” vintage classic ” as it says on the box, but the VC connotation is not at all inappropriate for many of the re-issued Airfix kits. They can really be prize winners. This was a kit that nagged the eye in the shop for a number of months until I had completed the Airfix…

  Dick Stein

  November 21, 2021

  1:72 scale, Box Art, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Airfix, classic kit, Hawker, Inter-war plane

• Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Two – Ahhhhh, Chooo!

  

  Oops. Sniff. Looks like it is all together…. Well, it almost seems like that with Hobby Boss. You sit there idly scraping down a seam line…that is nearly perfect anyway…and then you dry fit a couple of parts and then you decide to glue one in… And the thing is done. It’s not quite that…

  Dick Stein

  August 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, subassembly, Uncategorized

  airplane, assembly, Hawker, Hobby Boss