Italeri 1/48 Hawk T Mk.1 #13 (Completed)

Installed lights and remaining gear cover doors.

Project completed after 2.5 months. A good learning and practising. 

Potentially the next aircraft project

1/72 A5M2B Claude starter kit from Clear Prop.

Italeri 1/48 Hawk T Mk.1 #12

Slowly, prepared the last few parts including the signal lights.

Italeri 1/48 Hawk T Mk.1 #11

Installed landing gears, doors, air-brake and drop fuel tank. The fit is generally ok, but I have problem fitting the support rod (not sure how it is called officially) on the main landing gear.

There are glue mark over the small parts too, lesson learnt.

Italeri 1/48 Hawk T Mk.1 #10

The airframe is considered complete, and it's time to prepare the rest of the parts - landing gears, doors, centerline drop tank ... etc

There is some minor adjustment to do during test fitting, and after that, all the landing gear / wheels seems to fit well together.

I have painted the tires with Mr Color #137 Tire Black and masked the tires and applied Gaia 1001 Siliver on the rims. Worth to note that I use a circle templated made by Eduard to mask the front wheel, which is handy. However even the bigger circle in the template is too small for the rims on main gear wheel, hence I use masking tape and pen-knife to cut the shape. It took me 3 times of practicing. The result is acceptable, with a little bit of paint overflow on to the black area. Afterwards, applied and cleaned up AK weathering liquid which also fixed the paint overflow. 

Italeri 1/48 Hawk T Mk.1 #9

Weathering pass 1 with Mr Weathering Brown

Italeri 1/48 Hawk T Mk.1 #8

Sand the fuselage and wings surface lightly with 3M green sanding sponge and it is decals time !