Iterali 1/72 Hawk 100 and Revell 1/72 Stuka G

  I actually finished these two off last week, haven't had much time to do anything this week.  I was fixing laptops again the week before that.  Anyhow... on to whats occurring.  Right I decided to finish the two big models off first before I start anything else, and they where the Stuka and Hawk.  I was undecided for a while if I wanted the Stuka to be a dive bomber or a tank buster.  I thought I'd go for a tank buster as I have an Hurricane IID and an P-51 B Mustang to make and they where both "ground pounders/tank busters".  I might need to get an P-47 Razorback at some time too.

  Anyhow on with the Hawk first.

  I decided to go with the 4 AIM-9 Sidewinders on this one, I think it worked really well.  I noticed the "glass" pannel in the canopy has ruined the whole thing tho.  I never noticed that the RAAF's roundels are totally opposite either.  I think I got them the right as I didn't trust the box art one bit.  Now if you are wondering why the decals look so plain and boring, thats because my dog knocked the table when I was working on it.  She managed to tip over my bottle of Microsol and they landed on the decal sheet.  Which ruined half of them.  I am hoping I can get some more or bodge something.

  From the front she looks pretty good, thinking that a set of bombs and SNEBs might of been better... hhmm...

  masking up that canopy really paid off, guess I will have to do it in the future.  Not looking forward to doing it for the ME-110C... yay!

 
  Both planes together now on my kitchen table.  They look really cool together, just gotta find somewhere to put them now... joy.

  Even tho this plane got totally mashed up by the RAF and Soviet Air Force, it still looks like a mean little bugger, love that little tank decal on it.  Shame the crosses didn't align to well.

  Shame the cross on this side is "silvering" I really need to varnish the models.  But I'll be damned if I am going to pay £30 for a bottle of Klear... damn you Pledge!!

  And the front, those anti-tank cannons look really mean.  I'm really glad the prop cone looks white.  White is one of those colours that I can never get right.  Might have to invest in an airbrush me thinks.  Really enjoyed building this one for a change. :)   Let me know what you think.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Work so far...

  Yesterday I was supposed to wash my car (I know what an exciting life I lead eh?), but as is typical for England it was raining as per usual... and we are in a drought... go figure.  So I decided to do some models, now I didn't do anything major.  Just some tidying up and masking which took me a while.

  I've finally gotten around to masking the canopy for this bugger Hawkeye.  For a model that is supposed to be a modelers dream, it sure is turning into an nightmare for me.  It's just that bloody gray that I can not get right.  Might just slap on any old gray.

  My Revell 1/72 Ju-87 G Stuka, I decided to build the tank buster after all, might get some after market barrels for those cannons.  Dunno yet, need to tidy up those wing tips also.  I am quite pleased with what I have done here.  I need to sort the cockpit out also, that canopy isn't glued down yet.

  My little Revel 1/144 F/A-18 F Super Hornet, only managed to get the cockpit painted and glued the canopy down also masked it up.  Still trying to decide what weapons load I want on it, I might leave the Mk.82 bombs or the JDAM off and put them on the AV-8B Harrier II+, dunno yet.

  And last but not least we have the 1/72 Iterali BAe Hawk 127 (altho the model says 100), I've cleaned the cockpit out and made sure the canopy fitted correctly this time around.  I also tidied it up a bit and tried to get rid of the join lines.  I painted the Sidewinders too, so I just need to varnish it and decal it and this little baby is done.  I might buy this plane again at some point, I masked up the canopy but that too me an hour...

 
  A close up of the canopy, the paint work needs some touch ups but it's more or less done for an spraying.  I can't wait to get this one done.

  Haven't had much chance in the last two months between going to work, going out and crap weather to get the telescope out.  Almost forgotten how to use it :P  Hope I can soon...

  PEACE!

  Dazz

Iterali 1/72 BAe Hawk

  For the more attentive people out there, they might of noticed that I am making an Iterali 1/72 BAe Hawk Mk.100 in colours of the Royal Australian Air Force I was going to do the BAe demonstration aircraft, shown below

 That's the actual picture used on the Iterali box, now I was going to paint it this colour, until I sprayed it with the primer and decided it looked better grey.  And thus it turned out as the RAAF's trainer, I'm not too sure if they are used as 2nd Line Interceptors just like the RAF's Hawks where back in the 90's I believe??  And actually checking on Wiki, the RAAF never used the Hawk 100, it was the Hawk 127 for the geeky ones of us out there.  Well onto the fun parts of it, I had problems once again with getting some weights for the nose.  In the end I just used a lot of fishing shots that where strategically placed in the nose cone to weigh it down, thankfully it worked. :)   

  That's it dry fitted before I had finished the cockpit tubs.  Thats my bed sheet btw, funky eh?  Well once that was all done I started to play around with what I weapons I wanted to put on it.  I've taken liberty's as I am not sure how many hard points the Hawk 100/127 has, I know it has 2 hard points on the wing, one in the middle of the fuselage and two wing tip's for AAM's (Sidewinder's I believe not sure if it's cleared to use the ASRAAM yet).  But I have seen that the Hawk 200 has 4 wing hardpoints (2 each side) so I went with that.  Next was what I was actually going to put on it.

  Here you can see the original fuel tanks that came with the kit and the centre line 30mm Aden Cannon.  I also have 2 x Matra SNEB rocket pods and 2 x 100 gallon (?) fuel tanks from a Harrier GR3 kit that I am not going to make now.  I know that the Hawk is cleared for the SNEB's but the fuel tanks look a bit OTT for the Hawks little wings, and to be honest they looked a lot like floats to me... imagine that, a Hawk Floatplane.  Don't think I have ever seen an Jet-fighter float plane, except for the Convair F2Y Sea Dart. Anyhow I noticed that the kit came with 4 Sidewinders (I think they are AIM-9L's for some weird reasons...) two of them are to be used on the wing tips anyhow (not shown in the picture above) but the other two where random bits in the kit not to be used... maybe Iterali are gonna make an Hawk 200 in the future??  Well I went with the 4 Sidewinders instead of anything else, oh and the original fuel tanks as well.  The Sidewinders will be put on the two outboard stations with the fuel tanks in the middle with the cannon in the centre line station.  You get the idea in the below picture.

 Not that I look at it, I think the outermost hardpoint for the Sidewinder looks too close to the Fuel Tanks... hhmm... I can always snap them off and re-attach them at a later date.  I'm quite proud with how far I have gotten with her.  The cockpit is the best I have ever done I think, dry-brushed some of it and hand painted the rest.  I am thinking that an Eduard Zoom kit might of been a better idea tho.  I might try them on my ME 110 C-2 when I get around to doing that kit.  One problem I have come across tho when dry fitting the canopy of for the Hawk.  The back "headrest" is leaning to one side so the canopy does not sit right, I can either file down what I have buggered up OR have the canopy open.  I'm thinking open, means less work. ;) More to come as and when I do it...

  Peace!

  Dazz

Models!

  Yeah who didn't see this one coming?  I can't remember who, what, when or why but I got back into modelling last year sometime.  Every time Nat and I go to Lakeside, we always take a trip into Modelzone.  At first it was punishment for Nat dragging me into all of the clothes shops (for anyone who knows me, fashion and clothes really does not interest me), but as I started to see what they where selling I decided "why not?!"  So I bought one... Which turned out to be 3!! An Revell 1/72 Sukhoi Su-25 "Frogfoot" and a Revell 1/144 Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma and also an Iterali 1/72 BAe Hawk Mk.100 they where all on sale, I think they where half price, but I got them.  The Hawk I am buliding now, the Frogfoot is still under my bed and the Puma, I gave up on that one as I got bored of it believe it or not.  That was last year in the summer, however I have made a few more, well getting there slowly, there is a lot of skills I needed to re-learn or learn entirely. 

The Hawk in Royal Australian Air Force colours,

An Airacobra built for a friend, this was a shocking Airfix kit, probably from the 1860's!! (yes thats a joke).

A Dassualt Rafale in the colours of Espada 2 from ACE COMBAT ZERO : The Belkan War, this is a 1/144 scale so it's pretty small, I have next to no chance of getting any decals for it, so I might have to bodge 

something.

A Revell 1/72 Focke Wulf Ta-152, I love this plane, had this kit since I was 13 I believe.

Last and not least a VF-1A Super-Valkyrie with a weapons set from Macross : Do You Remember Love?

Yeah, I know some are not finished and some need work and the rest are shocking.  But I am pleased with what I have done, I've tried my best and I am learning as I go, I can not ask for anything more than that.  Any tips anyone has I would be welcome to them.  I have a fair few more to make now, which Nat is getting annoyed with as she's wondering where I am going to put them. :P  I got a few Gunpla (Gundam Plastic models) to do also.  I'm not too sure what I can do with them tho as I have lost the "decals" altho they where really stickers. I'll see what I can find and do.

Peace 

Dazz