O!! Boy what a fun building it, there is no great learning than actually scratch building an aircraft of your dream. Firstly if there are any errors on this build I must first say, sorry. This was more of learning experience.
It wasn't that I don't like the Red Arrow and make Red Arrow, I really love them, have seen them and awe me in some airshow I have been.
However I wanted to make the
Surya Kiran as they came out after a pause of few years. And guess what getting
Hawk 100+ 1:72 was a daunting task I couldn't get either
Airfix or Italeri, so end up building a one. The major different was the nose. So I completely rebuild it from scratch, lots of sanding I have to say I mean lots. once I got the shape, next was adding details to make it look like Hawk 100+ some other parts were scratch build from styrene sheet. The glue I used was
Mr. Cement rather than Tamiya cement, seemed to work well with styrene sheet. Feel like am a plastic surgeon after making the nose. The pitot tube is from safety
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Next challenge was painting, lots of small lines and shape of
Surya Kiran (Sun Ray) masking took me good whole days and rest is paint then masked again, unmasked and then painted again. Decals are home printed.