Thanks for all the replies, and the welcome and hopefully i will start to re-furbish the Hawk really soon. I have taken the time to take a few few photographs and now all I have to do is try to decipher the ins and outs of how to get them onto this forum.
I am sure that I have used photobucket or something similar so shouldn't be too much of a problem, as if I find restoring classic Minis a doddle how hard can pushing a few laptop keys be ??

To answer the question about Splintercat......suggest you read Terry Brooks, Shannara series, that's where it is from but don't know how it came about.

My stock isn't at all a " swoopy" but very much "squarish" in appearance, and all though it has all the feel and look of being home made, can't get the niggle out of my head that it is factory made?

All will become clearer when I get the pictures up, but rather busy at the moment on a tree cutting/aboriculturist course..... timber etc, but will post really soon.

Thank you all again for my warm welcome.

Splintercat.