gorby
Excellent work so far.

Klaas van der Wielen
Thnx, gorbygould.

Rui S
Looking good ( y)

Klaas van der Wielen
Thnx Rui. You're too kind!

Stephan Ryll
Nice progress 👍

Klaas van der Wielen
Thanks Stephan. It's slowly getting there.

Erik Leijdens
That is looking great so far klaas.

Klaas van der Wielen
Thnx Erik. I already spent a lot of time in it. I hope it's worth it...

Klaas van der Wielen
Thanks. That is one of the reasons to build it. I think the F-16 is beautiful, but I've seen it built too often.

Erik Leijdens
Fantastic job all around Klaas!! My Hawk is on hold for a while now unfortunately but your result give me inspiration again!

Gary Kitchen
Fabulous Build. I've got an old SMER Hawk coming up next in 1:72 and your detail here will certainly be a guide for my efforts.

Klaas van der Wielen
Well thanks guys. I finally had some time to make decent photos. Glad you like them!

Ben M
Very very nice. How did you do the subtle chipping?

Klaas van der Wielen
Thanks Ben. I first gave the plane an aluminium coat and sealed it. Then I applied masking fluid with a piece of sponge on the places which would be worn or exposed to wind flow the most. After camouflaging I simply rubbed the masking of. Because I found the aluminium too bright I toned it down by spraying highly dilluted camouflage green over it.

Ben M
Thank you. I think I will try this on one of my current builds, I like how you were able to control where the chipping happened like in the wing leading edges.

Always nice to see a ml-knil subject like this hawk!