I am a big fan of Space 1999, I grew up watching the series and it later influenced my carrier choice.

 This Hawk model, with some some extra detail and changes, was modeled with IronCAD, rendered with 3DStudio MAX 6 with the cebas FinalRender Plug-in. No textures yet and a lot more detailing coming soon (Interiors, Landing skis, etc...)

Originally I believed this would be an evening's very easy & quick modeling fun, but although still a very pleasant experience, it took over 20 hours of modeling.

 The max scene setup is very simple, with just two lights, the red one on the cockpit and a spotlight for contrast & shadows, finalrender's defaults were used for Global Illumination.

 If you too are a fan of Space 1999 or Cosmos 1999, as it was called in Spanish, you can download the actual model I created for this renderings from here, or the turbosquid site.

This is a free download of I relatively dense mesh, about 390,000 polygons. However, if you need any other format, drop me a line and I will send you the file in any flavor, surfaces or polys, I can convert it to.