Kendzior Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 The September 1939 campaign in Poland made it clear to the Dutch that they are completely unprepared for the conditions of modern war. They needed fighters. However, the queue with orders for the fighter aircraft was already long. France, Great Britain did not have much to offer for sale, they were in need themselves and bought them in emergency mode. The United States became the natural direction, where at the last moment Dutch managed to buy 24 Curtiss H-75 in the A7 version, for which the base was the A4, equipped with a powerful and light, yet capricious, Wright Cyclone engine - but also the fastest version of the P-36. They were produced in parallel with machines for France. However, before they reached their destination - the Netherlands fell under the attack of the Third Reich. The Hawks was therefore sent to the Dutch East Indies, to Andir (near Bandung), where they arrived in May 1940. After being assembled, flown and painted, they were sent to Madiun (East Java), where they were to defend the Surabaya naval base. The Dutch Hawks' service was short and lacking in success. After the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, the aircraft were sent to Sumatra. They were flown from there without successes, but with victims, one of which was the pilot of the plane that you see in the gallery. On December 21, 1941, two Hawks collided during the take-off to the combat action over Western Malaya. Sergeant Paulus Casper van Breen, then a 24-year-old ML-KNIL pilot, sat behind the controls of one of them, with the serial number C329. He died on the spot. Source: https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/persoon/20084/paulus-casper-van-breen After the fall of Sumatra, at the beginning of February 1942, the aircraft were re-directed to Madiun, where they unsuccessfully tried to stop the Japanese air raids on Surabaya, which, however, in fights with the Zeros only resulted in the loss of five more machines and further casualties. Other planes were grounded due to defective engines and lack of spare parts, and after the Japanese invasion of Java, destroyed by the Dutch in early March 1942. The Special Hobby's kit is well worth the manufacturer's brand. Special in every aspect: quality of the molds, fit, level of details, accuracy. And isn't our hobby (inter alia) a struggle against the efforts of producers, how to do something wrong, if it could be good. So everything is all right. If you are interested in details and have strong nerves, please look for the workshop thread. The construction process was marked by numerous problems, caused by myself. First the fuselage broke twice where it was connected to the engine cowling, then after assembling the airframe and painting, I dropped it on the desk and the instrument panel inside fell off ... reinstalling it perfectly did not succeed, poor access, but I didn't want to make such a large step back and brake the fuselage into halves. Decals were too transparent, had to overpaint them. I broke one leg of the landing gear, lost one gear leg cover (the one in the front of the gear nacelle, finally I made them both of an aluminium sheet obtained from a tin of Felix peanuts), I lost the fuel filler cap too, replaced with a scratch-built one. At the end I unfortunately grabbed it with dirty fingers and the marks had to be removed ... But finally, here it is. Here it is and it proves that even with medium abilities and skills in the use of putty and file, this model can be put together. And this is probably the most important thing. Few things added: rivets, missing panel lines, modification of armament in the wings, antenna mountings on the wings, vertical stabilizer and fuselage, 0.2 mm Uschi van der Rosten antenna cables with insulators made of hygienic stick stretched over fire (does anyone use them for any other purpose, btw?), wheel well covers from CMK resin, barrels from Master. The rest - straight from the box. Painted with MRP Paints. Colors according to the AJ-Press monograph: old leaves - early US Olive Drab, young leaves - early US Medium Green, underside of wings and horizontal fins painted silver, with upper surface color over the leading edge. In combination with the orange markings - it looks very nice and different, I think. Hope you like it :). Best regards and Happy New Year! Hubert Landrotten Highlander, jimbo, Gazzas and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Beautiful model, Hubert! May I publish it on the website? Kev Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Many thanks Kev, sure you can Best, Hubert LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Great looking build, Hubert! Despite your many troubles, it's a nice, eye-catching result. Gaz Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Awesome build Hubert. Thanks for sharing your build with us. I really like the lines on this one. Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaxos345 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Just awesome!!! John Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Beautiful, Hubert! Don't see many Hawk's built and I don't know why, they were used by so many countries. Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Very nice! Great build despite the issues, and certainly a scheme you dont see very often. Well done! Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trak-Tor Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Excellent! Congratulations! Juraj Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 Many thanks for your comments! On 1/3/2020 at 5:07 PM, LSP_Ray said: Beautiful, Hubert! Don't see many Hawk's built and I don't know why, they were used by so many countries. Well, the kit itself is a challenge. I think if it wasn't a short run kit, we'd see more of them built. Definitely, it's time for the mainstream molds. Eduard announced one in 1:48. Maybe someone, sometime... Hobby Boss? Trumpeter? Even with all their common mistakes and less than perfect accuracy. But for now I'm trying to make some space in my busy workshop for the French Hawk from Azur/SH kit. Best regards Hubert Kagemusha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Hubert, just stumbled on this one, great looking end result, despite the downfalls. good job Jack. Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 And here it is, Hubert! https://www.largescaleplanes.com/articles/article.php?aid=3396 Kev Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 Thanks Kev! LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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