Phil Beard

Glass clothing of the fuselage has started.

Glass clothing of main fuselage has started tonight with the fin.

Martin thanks for that. The PSSA guys told me where to search on the internet for paint schemes and I found that paint scheme and I thought it looked good and I don't think anyone else has used it also.

With the BAe Hawk now being painted I've brought the F86- Sabre back onto the building board. This will end up being painted in the Imperial Iranian Air Force paint scheme. Hopefully this will also be finished for the PSSA event on the Great Orme in May.

Having sanded down the Freddie Mix on the whole model to the point the surface is as smooth as a babies bum, it's now ready for painting. I'm going to be painting it in the scheme of XX285 as seen in the photos.

BAe Hawk fuselage and ailerons now been covered with the Freddie Mix ready for sanding tomorrow once completely dry.

Fuselage ventral fins now added. These were left till now as they'd get in the way for glassing of the aft fuselage.

Final quarter of fuselage glass clothed this evening all ready to finalise the final fiddly bits that need to be covered before applying Freddie mix to the whole fuselage and sanding down ready for primer coat of paint.

Forward Starboard fuselage has been glass clothed this evening and hopefully tomorrow evening the forward port side will be done also finishing of the major portions of glassing the fuselage.

Stbd aft side of fuselage has been covered in glass cloth tonight. Port aft side was completed yesterday. Having to undertake the glass clothing of the fuselage in 4 different sections due to the engine intakes getting in the way.

Glass clothing of the fuselage has started tonight and this is the final part I need to do. Currently making the decals for XX285 for when it's finally painted also.

Andy nothing is glued down yet and is only trial fitted including the canopy which has been cut to size and trial fit. Fuselage will be fully glassed before the cockpit is populated and the canopy will only be fitted once the fuselage is fully primed and awaiting the top coat to go on. Thank you for the challenge as it's good for external people like yourself to guide me.

Pilots and control panels painted with the ejection seat handles just being painted at the bottom. Now to fit and final trim of the canopy.

Glass clothing the rudder this evening.

Cockpit starting to take shape with the pilots being painted and the headrests and control panels getting Sorted.