My wife inspired me to build this model after watching a Red Arrows video.
She said 'why dont you try flying 6 at once?'
A bit difficult!
But, that was all I needed to start thinking about building a Hawk, definitely my smallest rc plane project so far. A quick bit of picture resizing on my laptop gave me a size where the board will just fit in.
Wingspan is 145mm, compared to 224mm for the T38, its really tiny. Looks about 1/48 or so, need to do some measuring.
2mm depron wing/tail/horizontal bits and 6mm fuselage top and bottom. 1mm depron fin. 4 part model looks pretty good once it is painted, no mistaking what its supposed to be. Still not sure whether to leave cockpit white or paint it blue or black?
Weight is low though, the bare airframe weighed 1.88g, the painted airframe weighs 2.13g. The radio board weighs about 6g then motor and battery on top of it, its going to be a lot of weight (relatively) for the tiniest of wings......
I do have a plan to help with this problem, whether it will work is a different question.
These little models are pretty rough close up, but its a grainy material, the sanded bits soak up 3 times more paint than the unsanded bits. From a small distance I think they look pretty good, slightly further away and you cant see them. 😁
Tiny amount of depron, the 6mm fuselage bits came from my extensive scraps collection and the rest came from my new stock.
I enjoyed building this, It looked good as soon as I traced it. The pictures I used were full colour, I had thought about getting 2 sides and a top and bottom printed out to stick to the depron but I figured the weight would be higher than painting. And you cant have rounded edges. I also wondered if it would be possible to print straight onto the depron? I imagine it would take ages to dry as its not absorbent, also, I would have a cut edge in white that would need painted with a matching red, so I just painted the whole thing, I was worried about the roundels but they turned out not bad, for me anyway. I have ommited the fuselage roundels as the horizontal part cuts right through it, the bottom part of roundel would be on the horizontal bit of fuselage. I may add these, but its hardly noticeable, and a bit late, I should have thought about that earlier. Ah well, it is what it is, as my friend always says,. Also missing is the Royal Air Force lettering, no way I can paint it neatly at that size.
Now if I could just get some smoke happening, that would finish it off nicely. 😁