RAF Hawk T.1, 1/48

[Lord Riot]

Rudder pedals in place.

 

 

The intakes need a lot of filler and sanding, there’s a huge gap at the join.

 

[Lord Riot]

A bit more Hawk-shaped now. Surprisingly, the fuselage halves join pretty well and will need little if any filler. The wings, however, after a dry fit, are a different story. Huge gaps at the roots, particularly just behind the intakes.
 

[Lord Riot]

More filler needed!
 

[bar side]

That looks familiar!

[Filler]

Brings back memories of when I built one a few years back. Plenty of filler but it makes a nice model with the effort. Wrong colours on mine though (but not as wrong as black).

[Lord Riot]

Looks good to me @Filler! Very nice grey Hawk that, I was tempted to do mine in that scheme. You’re absolutely right, they don’t look right in all over black. Only four schemes suit the Hawk; green/grey wraparound, red & white, all grey or red arrows.

 

A bit more done on this. I made the little protuberances on the leading edge from plastic card, as they’re not in the kit.

 

[Shalako]

I don't want to drag you into making some changes but I think - I repeat, I think - that those panels in the rear of the fuselage are not correct. Perhaps someone who knows the kit better can confirm/refute my point.

 

Cheers,

Bill

[bar side]

3 hours ago, Lord Riot said:

Looks good to me @Filler! Very nice grey Hawk that, I was tempted to do mine in that scheme. You’re absolutely right, they don’t look right in all over black. Only four schemes suit the Hawk; green/grey wraparound, red & white, all grey or red arrows.

 

 

To paraphrase the late great Meatloaf 2 out of 4 ain’t bad.  I do fancy a grey with black tail like @Filler’s though

 

[Lord Riot]

Thanks for all the comments gents, and those cracking Hawk photos!

 

The kit just has indentations where there should be more like grills, so I filled these with liquid putty then scored lines in. They look better when you don’t zoom in! I’ll tidy them up once the putty sets. 
 

I’m not sure what that blowhole is for, even though the fuselage shape is a little dolphinesque. Do I need to drill it deeper, fill it, put a grid over it? …

 

 

I made the long aerial for under the forward fuselage as this wasn’t in the kit either.

 

 

 

Canopy masked then dry fitted with blu-tack ready for spraying soon.

 

 

[Lord Riot]

Using the brilliant Britmodeller walk around section, it appears I needed to do some work on the airbrake bay.

 

 

The kit one is just an empty space, so with the help of a thin offcut of spare missile rail and plastic card I made a few rudimentary details to bring it to life a bit. First up, a central line to bend the card over to give a bit of a curved interior.

 

 

 

Far from accurate, but an improvement on the bare pit that was there before. 
 

 

It’ll hardly be seen once the airbrake is fitted anyway. I’m assuming the interior will be red, same as the main airframe underside.

[Lord Riot]

I got some of the spraying done in the last couple of days; light aircraft grey for the inner wings, which I then bagged up and masked, and today the gloss (more like satin) white upper fuselage. This seems to be taking ages to dry.

 

I’ll leave the white to dry thoroughly then mask that up ready for spraying the Humbrol 19 gloss red. No idea if that’s 100% accurate, everyone seems to use Gunze these days, but the old Humbrol rattle can is good enough for me. Probably why most kits on the forum look better than mine, but as it’s only me and my better half (who genuinely couldn’t tell a Hawk from a Spitfire and wouldn’t want to!) who really see them, that’s all good with me.

 

[bar side]

Nothing wrong with a bit of Humbrol 19.  I do think most colour has as much to do with the priming and application as it does with the stated shade.  Mine is in 19.

[Lord Riot]

All masking removed. Not too bad, just a few small areas of touching up required.

 

 

[Lord Riot]

After a bit of touching up, including with a white Posca pen, it’s looking a bit neater now. About as good as I can get it anyway!
 

 

 

[Lord Riot]

Anti-glare painted on the nose. Just Humbrol 33 matt black for this.

 

[Bertie McBoatface]

On 1/13/2022 at 4:35 PM, bar side said:

This is my 164 - pretty much out of the box with the decal set.  I do like the flaps on this kit.  I am just looking at a couple of red & white builds.  The Jet Provost has just ventured out of its box & I got a Chippie for Christmas

 

 

And very nice it is too!

[bar side]

The masking has worked nicely - looks like little to no bleed across the colours

[Lord Riot]

Working on the cockpit this afternoon, with the central fairing added. I don’t think the rear cockpit had a HUD, so I used plastic card to cover over the gap, and a couple of extra bits of detail.

 

 

The clear partition was the wrong shape, being just flat along the base, so I cut and filed it to match the cockpit fairing shape.

 

 

Seats added.

 

 

I need to work out a way to display the canopy open but so the attachments still look realistic. Any suggestions?

 

 

[bar side]

Nope, never figured out how to pose a Hawk canopy open without gluing it permanently to the fuselage side.  I guess some kit of L shaped wire bracket to run down inside the cockpit.  Or maybe a wire along the hinge edge with wires dropping at 90 degrees that can do the same

[Lord Riot]

Thanks @bar side, a couple of good ideas there. I think with some thin wire I may be able to fix something. 

[Biggles87]

Where’s @Fritag when you need him. Probably off on his bike somewhere.

[Lord Riot]

I made the cockpit mirrors for inside the canopy. 
 

 

Always a relief when they don’t tailsit. I made a couple of hydraulic pipes on the oleos from wire painted black and bent into shape.

 

[exdraken]

Really good work here!

[bar side]

Canopy brackets look good.  Coming along very nicely

[Pete Lane]

Hi, Nice build, I have built a model of XX164 in RWB myself. (as i began working on Hawks in 1983). Just as a matter of interest, The Hawk went through a number of changes when in the Red/White/ Grey scheme. It was around this period that the underwing serials were painted over in grey. There is a small triangular soft plastic piece at the bottom rear of the main undercarriage doors. This was a yellow/brown colour and was left unpainted. When the fleet was being fitted with 3 plate brakes this triangle was painted Golden yellow with -"Warning 3 plate brakes fitted" in 1/4 inch black letters. The MDC stencil below each canopy side was the same as the Harrier one. The Hawk shaped one came in much later. The Yellow "RESCUE" arrow had "From Either Side" painted under it. No Step area`s were marked as Red Crosses. These crosses were also applied to the rearmost fuselage panels.  The aftermarket decal sheet shows the tailplane alignment lines on both Tailplanes. It was only ever applied to the Port tailplane and would line up with a similar line on the fuselage.  Also a later addition was clear polyurethane tape. This was applied to flying surface leading edges to prevent erosion. This tape soon turned a yellowy/ Brown colour relatively quickly. I hope you find this useful for your buld. I look forward to seeing it finished!