1/72 Airfix BAe Hawk

DragonHawk 

by Alan Thompson

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Greetings from Scotland.  This is my first submission to ARC so please excuse the faults.  The kit is a standard Airfix BAe Hawk in 1/72nd scale built out of the box with aftermarket decals (Model Alliance) for the dragon hawk of RAF St Athan in 2000/ 2001.  The kit went together with no major problems other than my inability to spray   gloss black Humbrol enamel paint without it ending up streaky.  In the end I painted it matt black and used several coats of gloss varnish to get the high gloss finish.  The decals were superb to use; fine with high colour density and good instructions.  No
weathering was applied as the Hawk is from the RAF maintenance unit so was probably
well maintained.

Now, if I can just work up the courage to do another in the raspberry ripple scheme for the black dragon decal that comes on the same sheet...
Alan

Photos and text © by Alan Thompson