Vader’s Model Desk: Hawker Hurricane Mk. I

you hand paint all your models right? no air brush?

Nice job again.
Those Poles were hard-core.

Thought about ya, Vader, at the Bastogne Battle of the Bulge museum today. Those real life Shermans and Panzers looked almost as good as yours.

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Thought about ya, Vader, at the Bastogne Battle of the Bulge museum today. Those real life Shermans and Panzers looked almost as good as yours.

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I’d love to go there.

One of the interesting things about the Hawker is that it was made of wooden ribs and stretched canvas. Against German fighters armed with 20 to 37mm cannons, the shells would often pass right through without detonating.

I would put that one in the Top Five of my favorite Vader Models

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One of the interesting things about the Hawker is that it was made of wooden ribs and stretched canvas. Against German fighters armed with 20 to 37mm cannons, the shells would often pass right through without detonating.

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I think most everything behind the pilot was wooden ribs and canvas while the front half of the fuselage and the wings were metal. You can see it pretty well in this picture.

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Trivia question... do you know what the yellow panel on the outboard of the port Wing was for?

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To be honest, I don’t know what it’s for. I do know they also used it on other aircraft. But what it’s for? I can’t say.

It was only used early in the war, it was a gas detection patch..they were afraid of the Germans using gas early in World War II that if the aircraft flew through gas, the patch would turn color and alert the ground crew that the aircraft needed decontamination.. also seen on early Spitfires.