The Hawk
Typically those members of the British public who have been to an air-show will know of this jet in Red Arrow guise - less would necessarily recognise it in Indian Air Force colours. When first painting it I did initially regret selecting the dull-grey of the Indian AF rather than the rich forest-green tones of the Finnish examples - however this was one of those models where the addition of transfers made the difference.
I had a moment of blind panic and had to check some reference photos when I applied the last few national markings - since the tail flash/wing roundels seemed to be identical to the Irish flag I feared I'd made a one-off Indo-Irish aircraft!
Google images came to the rescue in this case (I have to confess I don't have any photos to hand of Indian Air Force machines - they don't fly over the home counties that often).
