full article in Scale Aviation Modeller, May 1995
One of my favourite aircraft flying is the Hawk trainer and over the years I have built quite a few of the RAF and foreign Hawk T.1s together with a recent conversion of the Hawk 100 (which will be reviewed in a forthcoming issue of Scale Aviation Modeller).
The Goshawk has been on my 'wants' list for a couple of years and at the IPMS show last year Hannants were selling the Scalecast conversion set and wings.
I had already purchased the Italeri Goshawk and the accessories spurred me on to build the kit. The only other accessories obtained were the Airwaves detail set and the Aeroclub NACES ejector seats, both of which were kindly supplied by ED Models.
Although I did not use it, the PP detail set also contains some of the parts. Also included are the weapons pylons and, again, these can be fitted if required.
I intended to finish the kit on a carrier with the Fujimi. Mule and their carrier personnel with coloured jackets.
The total cost of the kit and the accessories comes to around £16 which does not include the decals, which came from a multiple of sources and were handpainted onto clear film.
This conversion is not for the faint hearted and took me longer to build than my Hasegawa Tornado F.3. I also encountered problems with the Italeri kit, from which some parts were missing and others broken.
Although I wrote on two occasions to RIKO, who are the importers for Italeri kits, I received no response and eventually had to buy another kit to finish it off in time for the publishing deadline.
PAINTING
At last, I thought, on to the easy bit. Wrong! I should have
known better. I first sprayed the complete model Humbrol gloss white 22 mixed with 30 per cent thinners and this gave a very good finish.
Next, I remasked the new areas and sprayed the red training colour that the US Navy use.
As Malcolm Lowe stated in his article on the US Navy's Torjans in Issue 2 of Scale Aviation Modeller, I do not intend to get into the debate on the correct FS colour shade for this colour. (Any help and enlightenment from readers in the USA would be welcome.)
My own preference is to use Xtracolor X14 (BS.537) signal red. This matches very well with my paint swatch that I'd matched against a T-45 I saw on my last visit to the States. I had major problems with the Xtracolor paint on the second coat - when no matter what I did it would not dry.
I resorted to cleaning it all off with white spirit and a light sand with 1200 wet and dry. First the white had to be touched up before trying again. This time I used a new tin ordered directly from Hannants which worked nicely.
I left the whole model to dry for 48 hours and then started painting the other details. [...]
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