jasman71 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) Revealed today. Anybody else notice on the Hannants page for Hawks, airfix have another release for the Hawk scheduled in July , with a separate box number - A02005B. I wonder if this is the reason? To their credit, airfix have updated their retooled hawk at least twice since release. The first one was to improve (though not a heck of a lot) the main u/c doors. The second was much more major, including the wing fences moulded onto the wings, slight alterations to the seats, one piece canopy, and better all-round fit. This latter kit I am now buying in droves on my quest to build all the RAF airframes. So I can only assume the release this year is for the new scheme? The other release of this kit, in the black RAF or Finnish schemes, doesn't seem to be the final release either as the lower wing has out hard point holes in them too. One wonders what else they have up their sleeves?! I often wonder if airfix would sell me a larger amount of hawks unboxed, just the bare plastic, for a smaller amount ; bulk buy discount!! Edited February 18, 2014 by jasman71 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisrope Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Overtrees would be brilliant. Stuff like Hawks, Spitfires, Gnats, 109's would suit this method. There are so many decals sheets available that buying a box full of redundant bits and decals makes no sense ( to me anyway) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caution Wake Turbulence Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Radleigh beat you to it... http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234955741-new-red-arrows-scheme/ Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eng Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) Are we to read anything into the fact that there is the outline of a Gnat on one of the points on the fin?! Display season extra perhaps? Have to say I did think we might get something with a little more oomf, very tidy and immaculate jets as always though. Eng Edited February 18, 2014 by eng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasman71 Posted February 18, 2014 Author Share Posted February 18, 2014 If you look at the '50' logo you can see there's a gnat and hawk together there too I'm assuming that this time next year they'll revert to the standard tails again. Remember the 2000 season, with those numbers on the tail flashes? That's why I'm wondering if airfix are going to do a ltd edition kit this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMB Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 (edited) A bit of am anti-climax as far as I'm concerned. All they have done is change the front third of the fin from red to blue and made it into a Union Jack, much like a 4 FTS display Hawk had many years ago. I was expecting to see a "50 Years" or "1964-2014" in big gold letters! Edited February 18, 2014 by AMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Star Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 This is not helpful!! In a moment of recklessness, (weakness, stupidity or bravado) I was having coffee at Bournemouth Flying Club last Week and agreed to build them a revell 1/32 t1 to go into their auction in August to raise funds for the John Egging trust. The pressure of this build seems immense at the moment just trying to sort out firstly how detailed to make it (do I use kit parts for The cockpit; add PE detailing or use a resin kit like cbk).? It will be in a case. Secondly what airframe do I model? Do I model XX260 ( Johns aircraft) or is that bad taste given what it's being built for: or do I model The current Red 4 (? XX306) or even Red 1. Now with this new tail colour do I go for this or the classic look ....aaargghhh! Any help or advice will be greatly apprieciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasman71 Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Don't think it would be bad taste to model XX260. I'm on a long-term project to model all the RAF hawks in 72 scale and will certainly be making it and all others. I don't think anyone would see it as bad taste at all. For the red arrows I am doing them all in the various schemes carried, so will leave a couple to do as and when airfix release theirs with the blue tail later this year. For the earlier scheme, before the "royal Air Force " titles were placed on the side, I use the revell markings without the "2000" logo on the tails: the airfix original release Hawk does of course have markings in the box but they are crude by modern standards so won't use them. I have three big revell hawks to do at some point but I haven't started yet so can't comment on their contents, however I would be tempted to use a super-detailed cockpit with the canopy open, seat belts etc, maybe some rbf flags too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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