Falklands/Malvinas War 30th Anniversary GB

Thanx El_Jere i'm on final laps on the harrier and going to finish my first group build

Actual gr3

Decals on main body all placed

and thinned gloss coat for washing panel lines and seal decals

nozzles first black

gunpods

that's all ... again forget to take picture of canopy

Incredible work Mochilote! your bust looks amazing! What do you usually use to paint your figures? Bsyamato: you almost got it my friend, the Harrier is turning out great!

best regars

Jere

Mochilote - wonderful work on the bust - and good luck in Buenos Aires!

bsyamato - that Harrier is looking good.

I need to hang the sidewinders on my Sea Harrier so I can call that one done, find a spot for it on the shelf.

magnific work Mochilote

whi not the wholw figures?

as i speak i scratch some figure in early '90

the two girls are in milliput and the monster maded of "cernit" a modelling stuff that get hard after cooking in the oven

Hi everybody!!! I beg you pardon since I don't make any comment on the planes you are modelling; that's because I don't know anything about planes...

And that's the way it goes...:

Just a couple of details, since I'm really busy preparing eight busts for a contest next weekend in Buenos Aires . I have to put them togheter in a box carefully to go by bus...

Bye for now.

more updates

More i see picture of the real and more details discovered

two hemispheres added on the nose

steal two sidewinders from revell phantom the kit ones was really bad .

some improving on the fuselage protection plates

bending last nozzles fins before to glue 

and all fins up and ready to finish

at the next

near to the finish

Last pieces on the cockpit

and finally glued the hud and  windscreen

also added another air intake missed on the kit

front gear well modify, the correct space for extracted gear and the new little door scratched

gun pods redrawed and added missed holes

the hard part: nozzles improves, all 4 nozzles was excavated and added first new fins on the pieces

Actually working on gears and canopy, already at good point

What a superb work on the SUE.

Looking forward to see the final result, Jere.

Next weekend I will start my 1:72 SUE.

That's a lovely looking build Jere. Real beaut 

Very nicely done el jere, I hope mine turns out half as nice! And the colour looks fine to me. It seems to be one of those colours that looks different in every photo I look at. Photography is a funny thing, I recently painted a Hawker Hunter in the green + blue-gray pattern that was usually used. In person, it looks far too blue - almost the colour of your SUE. In the photo I took, it looks almost perfect!

Hat off to this SUE el Jere

If paint looks differents between pictures you did the perfect paint of sue

Almost there!

I still have to add some pieces, correct som things and to r touch with paint in sme places (I ran out of with and there is no model shop to buy one here, so I will have to wait.)

I lost like 5 prts during the build, so I have to scratch som of those, I already made cast copies with epoxi of some using a friend kit to make the mold.

Anyway I hope to finish it in a couple of days.

best reagards to all

Jere

ps. check out the colour, it´s quit different from the previous pics, like in a real SUE LOL

Azorean

El jere: The color paint is the real nightmare of the modelers. For me the color of the SUE is ok.

Great job so far.

Thanks!

It´s a P.I.A. LOL but I´m much more happy with it now. Anyway I guess it depends in what picture of what plane, on what day and so on that you base yor observations to say if the colour is right or wrong... The humbrol 125 is a grat starting point I hav to say, but after that you have to choose if you add blue, white or leave it that way... up to the modeller.

bst rgards

Jere

bsyamato

i vote for opened option!

Dito!

El jere: The color paint is the real nightmare of the modelers. For me the color of the SUE is ok.

Great job so far.

Bsyamato: Nice job with the Harrier. The engraved panels looks very good.

Vancecrozier: Almost done. Looking very nice the Harrier.

harrier looks nice Vance, and ye, i vote for open.

i vote for opened option!

bsyamato

Cool lookin sea harrier Vance  

Noticed a step between the two clear parts , the canopy is not yet glued?

Nothing slips by without you seeing it!! The windscreen is attached but not the canopy portion. I'm still trying to decide if I like it better open or closed!!!

Cool lookin sea harrier Vance  

Noticed a step between the two clear parts , the canopy is not yet glued?

bsyamato - nice work on the Harrier, I'm really liking the paint, it has a nice worn look to it already.

el jere, good job on the colour match, that seems to be a tricky one to deal with as the photos from that time can be quite different from one to the next.

Azorean - setting up for a Super Etandard as well! Looking forward to seeing another.

Alright, I'm calling my Sea Harrier 98% done. I didn't like how the Sidewinders turned out so I'm re-painting them. And as always after pics are taken, there are a couple of tiny little things that are bugging me, a little touch of paint here & there before moving into the display case....

Two lovely looking builds there guys. Great engraveing work on the panel lines, thats really some great work on the panel lines, what did you use to engrave them. Thats really somethin to do.

there's again lots of pieces to paint but most work yes done

Sue blue/gray looks good as worn with year, lots of pictures looks so

I just have to paint my SUE again, the first colour seems to gray for me. The most tim consuming thing was to mask it again, I use th same colour than before lightned with white.

It´s close to the first one, but I´m much more happy with it now.

I also have decaled the main parts, I still have to add he stencils tomorrow. I used th kit´s decals, wich are quite poor, a bit translucent, some are off register and some are complety wrong, like the sun on the tail (wich should be golden instead of yellow and it do not have such an idiot look!!) The squad logo is algo wrog but I didn´t have a rplacemnt.

I used some decals from the aeroclcas sheet wich is a suplement for th kit´s decals.

Tomorrow I will post some more pics.

bst regards

Jere

bsyamato

Yes bish here are an harrier just now painting the green camoufage parts after the grey

Also had re-engraved ll the panel lines :too fine engraved as the super etendard. If had time take some picture after finishing the session.

Azoren the 3rd academy (italeri) sue on this forum in short time  

Good goodies you add to it

 

Edit:

The gr3 updates

basic camo is on (humbrol 144 grey and 116 green), also re-engraved panels detail

Added the two holes near the wings base, engraved also A.p.u. doors and  other important panels missing on the kit in the above engine zone

 

Looks great from here, a gloss coat, decals and you are almost done!

Azorean

Prince Andrew talking about the attack on the Invencible?

http://24con.elargentino.com/conurbano/nota/60479-mientras-llovian-misiles-yo-solo-queria-terminar-mi-cubo-magico/

Thanks for the link, I didn´t know about tht interview.

rgards

Jere

ps: great second project. Ihave built one of those some years ago, it´s a easy build, and he Eduard PE set add a lot to a bsic kit. Great you have the aerocalcas decal sheet, the kit´s decals are useless

Yes bish here are an harrier just now painting the green camoufage parts after the grey

Also had re-engraved ll the panel lines :too fine engraved as the super etendard. If had time take some picture after finishing the session.

Azoren the 3rd academy (italeri) sue on this forum in short time  

Good goodies you add to it

Edit:

The gr3 updates

basic camo is on (humbrol 144 grey and 116 green), also re-engraved panels detail

Added the two holes near the wings base, engraved also A.p.u. doors and  other important panels missing on the kit in the above engine zone

bsyamato  Thats a lot of filler you have had to use. I am sure there's a harrier under it all some where. Theres a lot of work going into that.

I´m ready to start my second built.

Prince Andrew talking about the attack on the Invencible?

http://24con.elargentino.com/conurbano/nota/60479-mientras-llovian-misiles-yo-solo-queria-terminar-mi-cubo-magico/

thanx guys .

Jere, this time not used tape because the ejection seat have it printed, really not good as the tape but now are painted, at least i leave the glue of ejection seat for last, in case i change mind. Also toothpaste jar or even the same tamiya putty ,when finished can be used as belt media. I need to check some dentist , i have lots of lead pieces but not in sheets

Sue looks good ,on mine i used a mix of humbrol 77 and 144. Honestly dunno if correct was ,pictures was really differents between others. Azorean picture seems to be from a really used sue.

Then.. 

GR3 updates.

Consulting some reference on internet, the italeri kit miss some piece from the falkland operative harriers,

mainly a sensor cover on the nose with an antenna, and chaffs dispenser rear the airbrake, both resolved, but the front fuselage really have a baaaad fitting, lots of putty needed to resolve and also a plastic piece to resolve a step under the cockpit between the two semi-fuselage pieces. And another inaccuracy (not only from falkland units) . The front gear have a too large little well door, when the gear is out the space opened is just the middle than on the kit . Iresolved with a plastic piece on the back of the gear and reduced the rear hole.

the pictures

the step and the gear correction

after sanding and added the nose sensor cover

lots of putty

the chaff dispensers

also started to engrave more the panel lines, they are perfect for the airbrush but with brushes i risk to cover all the lines  

a last shot before to paint it with 144 that will go even as primer

that's all folks () !