1/32 Kinetic Hawk 127 RAAF

By Eric Galliers

Here is my Hawk 127 that I converted from the new Kinetic kit. These are the best pics I could come up with of the finished model before it gets packed away and flown interstate for a model comp*. As I always say, I would rather build than photograph! I am glad it is now finished as it proved to be a bit more of a change from the standard kit than I expected. A disappointing lack of external stores (apart from sidewinders and tank) led to a scratch building odyssey that resulted in both sets of pylons, gun pod and CBLS pods as well as new instrument panels. I would have cast the panels but decided not to as there was another resin set that was released just before I was going to take moulds of mine.

There are a number of people that I would like to thank in helping with making this kit as accurate as possible, in particular: Darren Mottram, Mick Evans and Peter White.

I have prepared a detailed PDF file on the mods and other stuff that I did to it (download PDF, 1.4MB)

Here is the list of stuff I did to the kit (there is more but not mentioned):

Scratch built instrument panels
New throttles
Modified Control Sticks
Modified nose leg
Changed some details on the main gear legs and added brake lines
Added raised rivets under the rear of the fuselage and parachute pack housing
Scratch built inner and outer pylons
Scratch built gun pod
added 2 new aerials
3D printed CBLS 200 pods and scratch built BDU-33 bomblets
added a highly modified Matterhorn circle detonation cord to the canopy
Scribed missed panel lines
Scratch built the two horizontal antennas either side of the tail
Removed the vortex generators aft of the outer wing fence

* Editor's Note: Eric's Hawk won first place in Large Scale Jets at the 2013 Australian Model Expo, as well as awards for Best Kinetic Model and Best Military Aircraft:

There is a build thread for this model in the LSP forums.

1/32 Kinetic Hawk 127 RAAF

By Eric Galliers

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