The Sea Hawk is finished. This will be the first “proper” aircraft I’ve built since 2019-ish when I made the switch from aircraft to scifi.
As far as the kit goes, it’s great. No complaints whatsoever. In fact, it’s so good it is a bit boring in retrospect. Good boring, mind you. But nevertheless boring. Not that I look for kits to have drama by any means. I prefer boring builds. But combined with the simple paint scheme, and my decision to go with a cleaner, simple finish, it was certainly a quiet and uneventful process with a simple result.
I’m happy with the outcome, given that what I wanted to achieve for the most part has been accomplished. Of course, there will always be things that when I get to the end of a build I can look at and think “Oh yeah, I should have done this or that”, or “Oh, I didn’t notice that little bit of flaw there.” For instance, do you see the pitot tube? There on the outer part of the left wing?
You can stop looking. It’s a trick question. I forgot it. 🤦♂️🤪
But as I mention briefly in the video, to me finishing a model is rarely a single, fixed point. It’s sort of a continuum that I get to. On one side you realize that with a few additional things, it could be called “done”. And there are always things to add-on if wanted. For me the decision is based on a variety of things, most of which center around how much fun I’m having, what my goals for the build are, and what I’m already anticipating for the next build.
I was still having fun. And my goal was that of a simple, clean finish. As far as next builds go, I have four already assembled and primed and ready to get started.
So with all that in mind, I saw a greater amount of fun on those next builds that will be heavily weathered. And my goal for this build was met. A nice, clean, sleek little early jet.
Thus when all of those factors converged, it left an easy conclusion.
Done!
I like it. I probably won’t sell it, at least for a while. I think it will be nice to have it on the shelf to look at now and again.
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