South African Air Force Improved Hawk 200

[Leading Observer]

I've been working away on this for a while, using the Matchbox Hawk 200 and the Freightdog Hawk T.2 extended jetpipe conversion set. I was intending to add the Sky Sabre missiles, but forgot to drill out the location holes for the pylons - but I'm sure I can use those elsewhere! It's also a tail sitter as I didn't add enough weight in the nose to offset the resin tail piece!

[Gondor]

Nice looking machine. That pittot is going to make a mess of the radar though.

Gondor

[Leading Observer]

Nice looking machine. That pittot is going to make a mess of the radar though.

Gondor

I hadn't thought of that! Side cutters will correct that

[Dizzyfugu]

Neat. 

[chrisonord]

Very nice
I meaaured up my conversion set yo a matchbox Hawk I have, and the matchbox fuselage was too wide. Have you modified yours?

[Leading Observer]

Very nice
I meaaured up my conversion set yo a matchbox Hawk I have, and the matchbox fuselage was too wide. Have you modified yours?

TBH There was a fair bit of fettling involved to match it up

[chrisonord]

Very nice
I meaaured up my conversion set yo a matchbox Hawk I have, and the matchbox fuselage was too wide. Have you modified yours?

TBH There was a fair bit of fettling involved to match it up

What did you need to do, as the only way around it I could see was to make the rear fuselage even longer, and taper it.

[Leading Observer]

Very nice
I meaaured up my conversion set yo a matchbox Hawk I have, and the matchbox fuselage was too wide. Have you modified yours?

TBH There was a fair bit of fettling involved to match it up

What did you need to do, as the only way around it I could see was to make the rear fuselage even longer, and taper it.

As you can see, I cut the fuselage more or less where  Colin indicates in his instructions - I think there is a panel trench on the Matchbox kit. IIRC I then shaved/sanded/filled the join until it looked the right shape - it was a while ago and unfortunately I didn't take any progress shots during the build

[chrisonord]

Very nice
I meaaured up my conversion set yo a matchbox Hawk I have, and the matchbox fuselage was too wide. Have you modified yours?

TBH There was a fair bit of fettling involved to match it up

What did you need to do, as the only way around it I could see was to make the rear fuselage even longer, and taper it.

As you can see, I cut the fuselage more or less where  Colin indicates in his instructions - I think there is a panel trench on the Matchbox kit. IIRC I then shaved/sanded/filled the join until it looked the right shape - it was a while ago and unfortunately I didn't take any progress shots during the build

Ah I see, thanks for the info, I will take another look at it when I get chance.

[kerick]

Looks very cool!
You could fix the tail sitting by putting it on jacks and say it's in for maintenance of the landing gear.

[NARSES2]

Looks good in that scheme 

I take it the Dalek is part of the security detachment ? 

[Leading Observer]

Looks good in that scheme 

I take it the Dalek is part of the security detachment ? 

The Dalek is indeed for security

[DogfighterZen]