Blow-in Hawk T.1

[Angus Tura]

Another partial success, Professor Piehead.

 

Here's the windscreen in the jig with a wedge shaped bit of plywood to do the reshaping. It's been shoved in and then held with an X-Acto clamp,

 

 

15" of hairdryer,

 

 

and its about half-way there,

 

 

It would need a lot of polishing as the heat clouds the "glass" but I thought one more shove and it'd be there. Unfortunately no amount of polishing would get rid of this crack:

 

 

I should have thinned it out on the inside before starting this. I wish I had a bunch of other rubbish windscreens to try this out further. But I don't.

 

So, Plan B.: Sacrifice of Italeri/Revell Hawk kit for the windscreen. 

 

 

It's a shame. However I was willing to part with the whole kit for £2. So, not the end of the world.

 

 

It's not a million miles from the Revell one.

 

Here it is taped on,

 

 

and here it is with the gap at the front Magic-Sculped. The windscreen is protected with clingfilm.

 

 

Incidentally, I've glued the fuselage up which has made me feel less bitter. I don't think that this is going to get finished on time!

 

Alan.

[Angus Tura]

Hi.

 

 

Just a second go at fitting the new windscreen. More clingfilm, tamiya tape and Magic-sculp. I've started dealing with all the various seams with Magic-sculp and Zap-a-gap with Zip-Kicker.

 

Manana,

 

Alan 

[Andy G]

That looks much better than mine.  I'd say it was definitely worth the effort.

[Olmec Head]

Good to see you have solved the front cockpit issue, it is a weakness of the kit that I think most on this GB have found.  When I cut the flash away I also managed to damaged the windscreen as well.

[Angus Tura]

Hi and sorry: a DNF.

 

Here's the wings on. The front clamp is holding them on and the back-clamp is closing the step in the fuselage.

 

 

The fin is a bit deviated to starboard. You can just about see it here.

 

 

So I've splinted the fin open, blobbed in a bit of tube glue,

 

 

pulled it over with tape and left it overnight,

 

 

and it doesn't look too bad.

 

 

Unfortunately that's as far as I've got. 

 

 

Not even close!

 

Thanks very much for the groupbuild which I've really enjoyed. I hope we can do this next year, but let's pick a kit that doesn't have a terrible windshield.

 

Alan