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Hi! To every aircraft modelers on ARC.
After my last F-5E, this time I show
you my latest models. Four BAe Hawks, yes, mass product!
They are all in 1/72.
Two from the Revell
Hawk T.Mk 1, 1 from the Italeri Hawk MK. 100, & the last 1 is from the Airfix Hawk Mk
100. I assembled them out of the box, with no additional parts added.
First I have a review of these four
Hawks.
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Revell’s Hawk looks good; just a few
parts need special attention. Especially the two air intakes, & part no. 20.
Italeri’s Hawk 100, only the
fuselage is different, remaining parts are the same as Revell’s, so it also
has the same problems as the Revell kit.
Airfix’s Hawk 100 is a new tooling
kit. It is my first time to assemble the Airfix model. It looks better than
the others, but
still has the same problems.
At first, I think these small
trainers will be easy job. I tried to find some reference pix before I
started, but
failed. OK! Just do it out-of-the-box. Models were started on 2/5/10.
The Cockpit & Nozzle must
center. Tail wing must note angle.
I used decals from The Aviation
Workshop MAS-729001 that I bought few years ago and it looks great. Before
I started decaling, I read the decal instructions and found I needed one more stencil decal from
The Aviation Workshop. Thanks for my friend’s help! The small stencil
was not easy to locate.
Italeri’s Hawk 100 is an easy one, I
sprayed it freehand, decals were also simple.
Airfix’s Hawk 100 provides decals,
but I scanned it and sprayed it before the decals. The decals were not easy to apply. You must pay
more attention. Apply decals just one by one.
All four Hawk had panel line
problems. It was difficult to locate the proper location for some
decals. The decals were also not marked very clearly as compared with
Japanese model kits.
Total result was not so
satisfying. This
is my first mass production, & I’ll try to do mass production next
time. Mass
production can save more time when it comes to cleaning airbrush, but you need think more before
you start working.
Kin Wong
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