Silver Wings Hawker Hart 1:32 - Page 6 of 6

Overall comments

This is a brilliant subject.

The kit is beautifully produced. The metal engine covers need smoothing out and polishing to achieve the lovely shine that all Harts have in that area.

The mounting of the wings is fiddly and I did not really know how much of the metal to cut off the struts. In the end I guessed and, with a bit of persuasion, it all fell into place.

The decals are great and it helped that they were so thin when I had to reapply the fuselage ones over those already fixed wrongly. Oh well, each model I make has a unforced error, my invective is becoming more creative when these happen!

The rigging in the instructions is not strictly correct, but who am I to speak as I have not been entirely accurate myself. There is enough reference out there to get it absolutely right.

One thing that I could do nothing about was the disappearance of the starboard exhausts. I thought that I had glued them in for life, but a nasty rattle told me that I had not! The fuselage was inaccessible at this stage so there it will stay in perpetuity!