Airfix 1:72 Hawk T1A Red Arrows – 2018 #RAF100 livery

This is Airfix’ nice little Hawk kit built pretty much out of the box with just a small correction to the nose gear doors, a brass pitot, canopy edging white lines and #RAF100 decals added.

The kit was a nice little build as always, always good for a mojo boost if needed. The T1 boxing does have an error on the nose gear doors (the kit just has 2 side doors but the aircraft actually has 3 – the missing one being behind the undercarriage leg), for a Red Arrows aircraft there should be 3 diesel/dye injector tubes above the exhaust as well, I will probably add these in a bit.

I used Hataka Orange Line lacquer Paint Signal Red for the distinctive livery and the RAF100 base came from Coastal Kits Display Bases. Model Art do a couple of sheets of RAF100 logos to suit most of the current RAF fleet.