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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Hawkeye


Here is an image of Dave Porter's Fujimi 1/72 scale Northrop/Grumman E2 C Hawkeye. This is a very old kit with a lot of fit problems and a lot of raised detail that a modeler has to cope with. It was quite an exercise trying to get a decent result. The Hawkeye’s role is a carrier borne early warning system. It serves as the “eyes and ears” of fleet much like that of the AWACs but with less capability.

2 comments:

Pat Tillett said...

This one looks very complicated. Lots going on...

Anonymous said...

Indeed. The US navy has very colorful aircraft. The E2C is very unconventional in its layout but it has proven to be a very dependable system.