giemme Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Looking great Can't wait to see some paint on the interiors. Enjoy your skiing week - I'm quite envious,haven't managed to go skiing this season, yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Very nice - really sharp and adds a lot even in this scale. Enjoy your time off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Nice neat and sharp Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Ok so. Back at work after my week skiing - nursing a bruised shoulder from a spectacular shunt but otherwise largely intact..... I have just about finished the cockpit construction on the first Hawk now. I think I've put in everything I want to (with the obvious exceptions of the seat and control column - oh and the throttles!). Anymore and it'll start to look messy I think. Here's a few piccies of were I'm up to. A couple of the cockpit sidewalls and then some of the Tub fitted. This one is ready for priming now: Looking forward to doing some painting. Not entirely sure I remember how tho'......... 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 You didn't work for Hawker Siddely/BAe at Dunsfold in a former life did you Steve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Those tubs look already very neat, can't wait to see them with primer and paint on! Looking forward to doing some painting. Not entirely sure I remember how tho'......... It's like skiing, once you learned, you never forget then Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Back at work after my week skiing - nursing a bruised shoulder from a spectacular shunt but otherwise largely intact..... No more downhill skiing for me - nine back surgeries later my body just says "no." I used to really look forward to each skiing season. My kids would say "when are you going to hit the slopes this year, Dad?" and I would answer "Probably on the first run." The Hawks are looking great. I have the Airfix Mk. 120D kit (with the fancy black and silver paint job), but the cockpit is pretty lame. I was thinking about the CMK Hawk Series 100 resin cockpit, have you looked at that? I'm wondering whether it's worth it - it almost costs more than the kit. Cheers, Bill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 When you look at what Air Vice Marshall Fritag has done with just a few bits of styrene and wire* it hardly seems worth forking out a few quid for a chunk of resin. Kirk (* and an electron microscope/nano-tools/heart-rate slower/yet-to-be-invented-miniaturisation-technology/time-machine) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 (edited) My kids would say "when are you going to hit the slopes this year, Dad?" and I would answer "Probably on the first run." - and not only that - the slopes hit back as well it seems to me. I'm going for another few days skiing in about a week and a half - must be a glutton for punishment. I have the Airfix Mk. 120D kit (with the fancy black and silver paint job), but the cockpit is pretty lame. I was thinking about the CMK Hawk Series 100 resin cockpit, have you looked at that? I'm wondering whether it's worth it - it almost costs more than the kit. I used the CMK Hawk 100 resin tub as the basis for my T1/T1a tub - but to make it work I had to take all of the detail off and substantially modify the shape as well: I'm not sure now that it was worth starting with the CMK tub. And I also used the seats as a basis - but again they required substantial modification: The instrument fit in the Hawk 100 is very different to the TMk1/1a so I wouldn't have used the instrument panels anyway. I also don't really like resin add-on side walls that much. Really hard to avoid making the side walls look way too thick in 1/72 scale IMHO. I probably wouldn't have used them even on a Hawk 100 build. All that said - there's no doubt at all that the CMK resin cockpit is a big improvement on the Airfix offering - and I'm pretty sure I'd use it happily on a Hawk 100 build (minus the side walls). However; accuracy wise it's definitely compromised by being designed to slot easily into the Airfix kit. I don't think I'd worry too much about that if I was building a Hawk 100 - but I just wanted to do that bit more for the old T1 & T1a When you look at what Air Vice Marshall Fritag has done with just a few bits of styrene and wire* it hardly seems worth forking out a few quid for a chunk of resin. Kirk (* and an electron microscope/nano-tools/heart-rate slower/yet-to-be-invented-miniaturisation-technology/time-machine) Oops. I've just admitted that I did fork out the few quid for the chunk of resin. And then didn't even use most of it............. Edited January 28, 2016 by Fritag 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Glad you're back at it Steve, purely for selfish readers, how dare you take a week of skiing......I'm jealous actually!! Great progress on the tubs, I can't wait to see the paint on, after seeing the JP's and Chippie, we know they are going to be rather special 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 No more downhill skiing for me - nine back surgeries later my body just says "no." I used to really look forward to each skiing season. My kids would say "when are you going to hit the slopes this year, Dad?" and I would answer "Probably on the first run." The Hawks are looking great. I have the Airfix Mk. 120D kit (with the fancy black and silver paint job), but the cockpit is pretty lame. I was thinking about the CMK Hawk Series 100 resin cockpit, have you looked at that? I'm wondering whether it's worth it - it almost costs more than the kit. Cheers, Bill Have a look at the Neomega sets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 A squirt of Alclad black primer/microfiller on the PE. Gonna have another go at the technique of overspraying with grey and micro-meshing back to reveal the black on the raised sections of PE. I'll leave the black to harden overnight first tho'......... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggers Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 He's here. We only mentioned your abscence t'other day over on th'Albert thread. Debster has entertained us royally while you've been playing at Franz Klammer. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 These pits are going to look great under a coat of paint. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonl Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Welcome back Mr F, I don't think my lunch hour will be long enough to digest this and Deb's Herky build.... You don't need to go skiing to feel the comforting punch of terra firma coming up to meet you at a rate of knots... I came off my bike on ice two weeks ago and still finding bruises... Hope that you're recovering well.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjD Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Haven't dropped in on these Hawks in a while but they're certainly coming along well. Amazing how you add the detail to the cockpit sills and suddenly it just looks so much more realistic. I had to go back and look again at the way you built the internal duct within the intakes. Absolutely brilliant. The Hawk seems to lend itself well to that but it ain't half impressive, especially in 1/72. Great stuff! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Franz Klammer. Brilliant. That I giggled at this only shows my real age, not the age I pretend to be. Nice to see work resume Steve. Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 (edited) Got some proper paint on the cockpit and tub now.Since this photo I've broken up the uniformity of the finish a little by going over it with darkened and lightened mixes and given it a coat of Humbrol Clear to protect it. The light/dark shading doesn't really show up in this photo tho': Later on I can try a wash or two and some detail painting. Edited January 31, 2016 by Fritag 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(ex)Sgtrafman Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Seriously good work Steve..love it! Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Great work on the office, Steve! The clear coat (I think you already know that) tends to kill the highlights and shadows, but I'm sure that once you're done with washes and matt coat, all the details will nicely pop up. Can'take wait to see the main IP'so on Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjD Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Just nipped back to Page 1 (it was a long trek!) to remind myself which schemes you'd chosen for these. Man how I love the Hawk in camo. The personal connection adds a lot to this build too. What strikes me so far is how incredibly neat it looks in the photos where you have the cockpit in and fuselage together. Still watching with interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Paint makes all the difference to those cockpits Eagerly awaitng the next installment! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blogs On Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 More! Sir! We want more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted January 31, 2016 Author Share Posted January 31, 2016 Ok. So. I tried very gently wearing away the grey coat over the raised PE details to reveal the black coat underneath. I tried it with paper and with some plastic micro mesh sheet. It sort of worked.........But try as I might couldn't avoid going all the way down to the brass in places. I decided I could live with that on the side consoles - as it had a not unpleasing look of wear and tear about it. But not on the Instrument panels - so I re-touched the black on those panels using a permanent black marker and post-it-note masks. Here's how it looks at the mo'. They've had another squirt of Clear for protection before the next stage of work: I'm calling it a qualified success 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I dunno why I keep visiting this thread.... one look at the neatness, the precision, and the finesse with which it is applied just thoroughly depresses me for the rest of the day 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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