Saturday 2 May 2015

Horrible Hawk

Lowering the tone of my Little Cold Wars forces still further is this tracked HAWK launcher. The basic Matchbox diecast was picked up - minus its long departed missiles - for £1 last year.  A rummage in the spares box yielded three big missiles from (I think) the Airfix Tornado kit.  After painting on the obligatory red warheads they were drilled and glued into place.
And yes, I know the whole ensemble should be painted olive drab or camo but I rather like it as is.


12 comments:

Col said...

Looks Good Tim! Great re-purposing of the missiles and a cheap tracked launcher. Just need some of those big Soviet buckets of sunshine to oppose it!
Cheers
Col

Peter Douglas said...

Great looking bus Tom! I confess that I am disappointed that the missiles don't fire. What LCW mechanism will be used to represent the results of missile fire?
Cheers, PD

Tim Gow said...

Col
You mean the Frogfoot and the Beagle in the unbuilt kit pile?

Tim Gow said...

Peter Douglas
No pleasing some people - I blame the early playtesters...
AA fire is resolved rather like AT fire by dropping a dart in a target. To simulate ECM the owner of the aircraft can distract the AA gunner by telling jokes.

Paul Foster said...

I like it! I have been wondering when this diecast was going to make a appearance.

Nice rebodge.

Tim Gow said...

Paul Foster
Fear not. Since completing this I have found another in even worse shape!

Archduke Piccolo said...

Those white and red rockets - showing the instruments. You gotta let the enemy know what's coming to them!

Paul Foster said...

Easy M548 bodge!

Tim Gow said...

Archduke Piccolo
Exactly! Where's the deterrent effect if you can't see the thing?

Tim Gow said...

Paul Foster
Or a Chaparral?

Uncle Brian said...

Very nice! I'm a big fan of Battle Kings and it's always good to see them refurbished!

Tim Gow said...

Uncle Brian
I was confident you'd approve.