Revell BAe Hawk T1 (Flaps conversion) 1:32

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Feature article by: Tom Potter

A note from Geoff

It would be a good idea to read Dave Coward’s full build review of the Revell Hawk T.1 that you’ll find in Finished Now.

Tom will take you through his conversion build below to help you create a more realistic-looking Hawk, which features dropped flaps. As you can see in the above images, the flaps are almost always seen dropped on parked Hawk aircraft and that’s what we’re trying to do here – give you a bit of help if you want to modify the Revell kit.

Also, check out the extensive gallery of images in your Photo Reference Library on the Hawk T1 0. There are dozens and dozens of high quality images covering the whole airframe, including the flaps from numerous angles that will aid you in a project like this one.

Good luck!

Geoff

The Flaps conversion…

This article is not intended as a complete build article; rather, it is my approach to showing the model with dropped flaps. This is an option which is not given in the box and, at the time of writing, there were no after market sets available.

For this reason, I’m not going to give any preamble about the full size aircraft, which has already been done very well in other pages of this magazine. Check out the full in-box Here Now review as well as the previously-mentioned full kit build from Dave Coward.

The Build

The first thing is to ignore the first 18 steps of the instruction set; these may be followed up to and including step 18. Before proceeding to step 19, we must remove the upper and lower halves of the flaps from both wings.

Before joining the wings, the trailing edges of the flap area on the upper wing will need to be chamfered to provide a scale thickness in this area.

After this the wings may be joined. Also, the upper and lower halves of the flaps may be assembled and set to one side.

Having removed the flaps from the wings, there is a gap where the flaps have been cut away. So at this point it is necessary to measure the size of the gaps. I say gap(s) because there is the possibility that the gap on either side may not be exactly the same. Having done this, pieces were cut from plasticard to the dimensions and these were used to plug the spaces.

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