Now that I've made about half a dozen of these things, I have finally had to acknowledge one of the harder truths. Most 3 view images are far from accurate. Result, I had to redraw and vector the only decent 3 view I could find for a BAe Hawk (latest version). Since I live near the Red Arrows base I see them painting pretty pictures (and pollution) all over my bit of sky on a regular basis. Ergo, I decided I should have a go at a profile of some sort. (Why grown men should waste their time and fuel making aerial patterns like they do is a bit beyond me - nearly as time-wasting as profile-making I suppose). However, I can now see why other airforces buy the things. I think everybody should have one of these entrancing little aeroplanes. Much better than my old Slingsby Gull.
Then it suddenly got worse. I saw some of Ugo's images and wept.
Ahh the BAe Systems Hawk 128 (upon entering RAF Service designation T.mk2) great plane, you should do ZK011 in its primers, yeah the 3-views always need adapting, i've never found a perfect one yet... but we can't win them all right? great work and keep it up also watch that spine shading the hawks backbone is nigh on a straight line to just below the beginning of the Drogue Chute housing... Hawk is my all time favourite aircraft...don't ask why otherwise i'll wind up typing a list that takes 5 months to read, and about 4 months to type.. lets just say the old girl has beauty, if a T.Mk1 asks you to look after its sister do it, it'll give to a 128/LIFT (Lead-In Fighter Trainer) or even the Hawk 200, the single seat variant, for all those extra features its good to know she still uses the Adour (Same engine that powered the RAFs Jaguar, Minus Reheat/Afterburner)..ok now i'm drivelling on, time to go stare at my 'Hawk Shrine'
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there are nice shades of grey... that is any grey a Hawk wears early hawks wore all over air Defence grey similar to the Tornado's, perfect for camouflaging in english Skies if you ask me but the black...ooh now that...that is beautiful, at this rate all this talk of hawks i'll be sleeping well tonight
Only if you consider insignia white as a shade o' grey, which it technically is I guess. However, I like 60's USN planes 'cuz they have nice flashy colours.
There are greys and there are greys. FS 354237 and FS 36375 plus black, white and pale blue are what was used to make the machinery shown below. There will be those who will say it would have been better shown upside down, no doubt!
great work and keep it up
also watch that spine shading the hawks backbone is nigh on a straight line to just below the beginning of the Drogue Chute housing... Hawk is my all time favourite aircraft...don't ask why otherwise i'll wind up typing a list that takes 5 months to read, and about 4 months to type.. lets just say the old girl has beauty, if a T.Mk1 asks you to look after its sister do it, it'll give to a 128/LIFT (Lead-In Fighter Trainer) or even the Hawk 200, the single seat variant, for all those extra features its good to know she still uses the Adour (Same engine that powered the RAFs Jaguar, Minus Reheat/Afterburner)..ok now i'm drivelling on, time to go stare at my 'Hawk Shrine'
early hawks wore all over air Defence grey similar to the Tornado's, perfect for camouflaging in english Skies if you ask me 
but the black...ooh now that...that is beautiful, at this rate all this talk of hawks i'll be sleeping well tonight 
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