Falklands/Malvinas War 30th Anniversary GB

Cool lookin sea harrier Vance  

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

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!!!

i vote for opened option!

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

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.

bsyamato

i vote for opened option!

Dito!

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

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

Hat off to this SUE el Jere

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

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!

That's a lovely looking build Jere. Real beaut 

What a superb work on the SUE.

Looking forward to see the final result, Jere.

Next weekend I will start my 1:72 SUE.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Panel lining wash almost done

The canopy mods

Great job on the Harrier, Bsyamato.

The wash gives another life on the model.

Well my second built is on.

Here the first advances.

I need to gain space at the cockpit to put the figure. Is an Airfix one with some sanding to change the profile of the helmet. I will cut the right arm to make another one in a different position. Let´s see if he survives the surgery...

Thanx, nice start on the academy sue

it's actually a rare kit and this is the third on the forum in less than a year

Nice looking harrier, coming along well.

I am rather likeing the look of the SUE and the Pucara. Not my usual subject areas but i think they would be nice to add to the collection for something different to build.

Thanx for cooments harrier is near to finish, think more progress picture are useless . Left only to glue main gear, front amd side gear are glued, then after modding the front gear i'm sure best way to but all wheels down is to adapt the main/central gear to others. pilons, nozzles etc also on.

Counting to finish in two days and take some good finished pictures

Thanks to all of you!!!

Bsyamato, just busts; I don't know why, but I really enjoy making them. Maybe because I consider that the most important part in a figure is its face; there you can print the emotions, the intentions, what the subject wants to expres.

Vance, Buenos Aires was great. I brought home a couple of gold medals, five silver and one brass medal. Not bad... (open system..., I don't like it).

Jere, I paint my busts almost exclusively with acrylics.

Hey Bsyamato, your harrier is looking really great. I really like it.

Mochilote

Thanks to all of you!!!

Bsyamato, just busts; I don't know why, but I really enjoy making them. Maybe because I consider that the most important part in a figure is its face; there you can print the emotions, the intentions, what the subject wants to expres.

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the inverse of me with scrach figure my skill on faces are a little bad, also thanx for comments and my compliments for the golds post some picture in the figure section

and i can drink with you others my first completed GB

Heres last updates

copper tube and rods used on the nose probe

others antennas and sensors added here and there

perfect wheels ground touching

and at 3:00 AM the first finished gr3 picture

for obliviously motivations need to waith tomorrow for sun pictures

Well I have cleared up several of my backlog builds and am about ready to commence on my build for this GB. Now I look at the roster and I see lots of Brit builds, and only a few Argie. And of the Argies many are Super Etendards. So I am gonna leave my Sue as an alternate/secondary build here and switch to an argentine Mirage IIIEA, 148, by ESCI. If that is ok with the powers that be? I dont see any Mirages, Daggers, or Skyhawks here.

Stickpusher,

Will be nice to see some Mirages here. Looking forward to see that.

Meanwhile I started to build the base for my SUE´s diorama.

Paint and Silicone glue

The idea is to try to create the choppy waters of the South Atlantic. But the end result does not convince me.

I will try other way...

I forgot to mention Micholote work.

I'm speechless with the realism of the figure. I can not wait to see it finished.

Good choice Stik and welcome back

Azorean nice try on the water, waiting to see the other result

Final gr3 pictures

that's all for the GR3

ps.. the only empty space to put the gr3 was near the sue