Silver Wings 1/32 Hawker Demon MK.1 No. 22 Sqn, RAAF Richmond, Late 1930s

By Eric Galliers

This is my newly completed Silver Wings Hawker Demon.

The kit took approximately 3 months to complete and was built to represent an aircraft serving with No. 22 Sqn, RAAF, based at Richmond Airbase, New South Wales.

This particular aircraft (A1-3) was the first Hawker Demon assembled and flown in Australia, being delivered and built during 1935. It was involved in an airshow fatality in early 1936 where 2 spectators were killed when the aircraft accidentally hit them, later crash landing. After being re-built, it was passed between a few different units before finding a home with No.22 Sqn. It was involved in another crash landing during an Army co-operation exercise when it was forced to land on a road due to bad weather. It was finally converted to components in December 1937.

Modifications/Additions

• Single fuel tank between top wings converted to a dual tank configuration
• Small windows in the fuselage added beneath pilot seat
• Trim tab added to rudder
• Navigation lights added to wingtips and rudder
• Various panel lines added
• Scratch built tail wheel and yoke assembly
• Scratch built ring and bead gun sight
• Scratch built `rams head' exhausts
• Scratch built outer wing hardpoints
• Scratch built Instrument panel, including Airscale decals
• Copied Bomb racks from the Hawker Hart kit
• RB productions Sutton Harnesses
• Scratch built pitot tubes and pipes
• Added fuel lines between top wing and cowl
• Re-worked radiator grilles
• Oil cooler modified to look better
• Blast deflectors added to gun barrels
• Rigging terminators scratch built on wings
• Added a Wingnut Wings Lewis gun
• Rear gun mount modified to the stowed position
• Added gun stowing bracket
• Rigged with Elastic Knitting in thread, brass tube turnbuckles
• Other stuff I may have forgotten about

Finish

• Southern Sky RAAF decals with Ventura Serials
• Tamiya AS-12 paint with AK Interactive Polished aluminium cowls

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Detail Photos

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

© Eric Galliers 2016

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