Official Harrier GB

Casper that came out really well ,nicely done Sir!

Casper~ I love how it came out. The build looks awesome. Nicely done. Sorry I missed out on most of the build but I haven't really had the time lately to do much.
Your build is now posted on the first page.

Scorpiomikey

Very very nice build. Can you post a photo of it next to another smaller scale? (eg a 72nd spit if you have one) Just to show the difference in size.

Ok, just to show the difference in scale, here is the Sea Harrier 1/24 next to an F-16 in 1/48

Quite a size difference, huh!!??

Cheers

Ok, I'm calling the Sea Harrier done. This kit really did show it's age, not great fits on joining parts etc. Lots of flash, ejector marks etc. But it did spruce up ok with the Flightpath set (despite the not-so-clear-instructions included). I gave the plane a not so subtle oil wash, I wanted to show a bit of battle grime and the elements out on the aircraft carriers deck.

Cheers

Slow progress on the Harrier. getting all of the geeblies sorted slowly.

AIMs turned out well. I'm getting better at airbrushing gloss white but it's still a PITA! Did the tips in magnesium, makes a nice contrast. Next decaling for them;

Cheers

Entering the home stretch on this build. Got the decaling done and started to attach the greeblies. A lot of those on this bird. I have almost finished the exhaust nozzles. Got the rear exhaust plates to Alclad in magnesium, I have painted the AIMs white and then they will get a gun metal tip. Then it will be time for weathering and shading.

Cheers

OMGZ, this thing IS a monster! I have finished the painting, touched up with a good brush on the areas where it was hard to get in with the air brush. Nose and tan/black masking's done. Next a gloss coat in prep for the decals.

Cheers

This bird is such a marathon to paint. Two hours and I've got the top done and half of the underside. I can't believe I ran out of paint, used up one and a half of Mr.Colour H333. Time to pay a trip to the LHS tomorrow.

Cheers

Slowly getting towards painting. Canopy finally attached (the brass sure looks nice but is a total PITA to install on canopy plastic!!!!), cockpit masked off. Just some more greeblies to fit, also completed the vortex generator replacement in brass on the wings.

Cheers

Fuselage almost complete. There were some very nasty gaps whee the intakes join to the fuselage. Lots of Tamiya putty this week!

Cheers

So the stage that I have been putting off for as long as I can is the canopy. As nice as the Flight path set is, the instructions leave a lot to be desired!

The front canopy section has a raised section just where it meets the front of the fuselage. The Flight Path set contains nice sill details with riveting. It however does not mention how to apply the new sill to the clear plastic part.

So I had a think about this and there is a secondary brass part that fits on top of the front of the sill. I thought that this simulates the 'bulge' in this section so I decide to saw off the front part of the canopy.

A disaster! A poor sawing job, the blade kept bouncing and making a new cut and finally the glass snapped in a very conspicuous place.

Lucky there are 2 front canopy parts in this kit. The second part seems to be a bit messier in its molding but Future should help with that. So I carefully scribed the cut outline first and made very slowly but slightly firmer strokes. A much better result.

PHEWW!!! A botched canopy can ruin a model. A test fit with the brass sill confirms that this will work just fine.

Also got the first external fuel tank done. Note the brass sway braces, they really help with the detail.

Cheers

First Sidewinder. This almost took 3 hours of work to assemble! I think I'll only do 2 of these are fit the external fuel tanks as well.

Cheers

Some work done on the front wheel

and the inside of the airbrake

Slow work but it's starting to come together

Cheers

Slow progress but slowly coming together.

Cheers

Don't worry , you was not alone with fuselge gaps relatively for the scale, the nose gap of the italeri gr3 was more than your giant

good work Casper

My first exhaust nozzle with PE. 1 down, 3 to go. A bit fiddly but worth the effort

Got the engine fitted inside and glued the fuselage together. Quite a nasty seam underside as you can see

Cheers

Looks like you've had a lot of progress on this one. I really like how your CP turned out. It looks very busy.

Some more work on the Harrier. Fusing the cockpit section onto the rest of the fuselage. This is being glued only on the starboard at the moment but it's necessary to temporarily tape and hold the port side so it makes a better match. There are many gaps in this kit already

Cheers

Haven't got much done this week. It has been a bit of a rough week here. One of our chihuahua's, Lychie, died this week. He was very old, 16 but much loved and will be truly missed.

Got some work done on the intake doors. This is tough work but the PE fits nicely and when painted should give a very realistic look to the plane.

Cheers

PS. My avatar will be changed to honor Lychie for the time being.

Cockpit almost done. I think it must be the most work I've done on an office so far. I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Cheers

Great updates

Sometimes scratchbild pieces are not avoidable even if not planned to do LOL

Here it goes. My most tedious project of the year.

I took it and just primed it the way it is. Most pieces either missing or have fallen off. I can see there is going to be a lot of scratchbuilding involved in this one.

Nice work on the engine. How much of the engine are you gonna let show?

I've started to add some extra piping and wiring to the engine but at this scale it's going to need a lot more.

Cheers

So more on the Airfix puzzle. Flashing galore on this kit, also ejector pin marks on almost every piece! We get spoilt building Tamiya, Dragon, Eduard and Trumpeter kits a lot of the time!

I decided to finish the engine parts off in Alclad lacquers. The black undercoat helps with creating depth in the detail of the parts.

Some more work done on the cockpit. Far from finished, possibly the most detailed office I've ever worked on.

Front view;

Front view with coaming;

Rear view and starboard sidewall;

Nearly finished the ejection seat just waiting for the harnesses to dry.

Cheers

What surgery needed bad point for airfix!

Great work Casper waiting for more

Time to get out the mini saw.

Need to remove the cockpit. I think this kit was originally a GR.3. The instructions ask to hack this front section off and replace it with the FRS.1 version.

The tape help remove a clean area

Not quite a clean fit for the new piece but putty will help that

Cheers

Nice work so far casper. The IP looks great.

I agree with you, all that left over stuff can go a long way.

Here's the IP, just a bit of touching up to do on the paint job but essentially it's there. It will look better once it's under the coaming with the HUD attached.

Cheers

Some more work on the brass...The ejection seat lower half

The coaming above the IP, the HUD assembly and the headrest of the ejection seat.

Cheers

great and huge work casper!!

As you can see the cockpit on this kit is pretty sparse.

There are two not-very-fitting-at-well plastic bits for the side wall that I just threw away.

I cut off the window sills and replaced them with the FP brass offerings. As you can see on the port side, just a plastic ridge.

So while the Flightpath set spices up the IP and some of the side consoles considerably, it completely fails to add anything else to the cockpit. So scratch time. As always with my approach to scratch, I like to simulate not replicate. I tried to do something that looked good to the eye and not worry too much about what was really inside this pit for real.

It's amazing how much of this will be seen on the final kit. Airfix could have done a little more perhaps. But it's amazing what can be done with some left over PE, resin, styrene cockpit shapes and wire.

Cheers

Casper the Chihuahua

I've never seen so much brass! There are sheets and sheets of the stuff in this Flightpath set. Instructions could be a lot better though. Half of it is diagrams, the other half is written instructions. it's complicated stuff let alone having to visualise it yourself.

Anyways, here is the IP with brass pieces and some pieces for the side consoles.

Cheers

How detailed is that kit OOB?

Looks like something I might want to get one of these days.

I've never seen so much brass! There are sheets and sheets of the stuff in this Flightpath set. Instructions could be a lot better though. Half of it is diagrams, the other half is written instructions. it's complicated stuff let alone having to visualise it yourself.

Anyways, here is the IP with brass pieces and some pieces for the side consoles.

Cheers

Well, it's not everyday you have a 1/24 scale kit in the stash (or under the bed) so I decided to bump the 1/72 Super Sabre and start the Harrier now. This kit will be in 3 builds, Airfix, Harrier and Falklands.

A lot of pieces, a lot not on sprues and not very well organised or numbered. I'm going to have to work out a filing system to keep track of the pieces.

I'm also adding this Flightpath upgrade set which includes resin wheels and ordinance and heaps of photo etch and white metal parts for the cockpits and engine and ladder etc.

This kit is a gift pack and has supplied some small pots of Humbrol paints so first things first some cataloguing and converting into Tamiya and Gunze from my collection.

I think I'll have to fill up the tub for this one as well to bath the parts

Cheers

Fly-n-hi

 

This is what I've been calling the "Fly-n-hi effect."  I paint on functional slimelights:

Very nicely done machine - what did you use for the slimelights?!?!

Helo - I love those winter camo schemes on a Harrier, I was tempted to try one with mine, but had picked it up specifically for the Falklands GB. Maybe next time.

Nice start Helo, i'm curious about the fitting of cockpit section (lots of parts are the same of my gr3 kit) , had lots of problems there

John, I'm really liking that paint scheme.

Neat paint scheme,looking forward to seeing it come together John!

Hi everyone ;

 I apologies for my slow progress on my 1/72 Esci AV-8A project  . I was attempting that fancy YAV-8C paint scheme for my build however I have decided to use the Wolfpac decals sheet No.72-035 "Winter Camouflage" AV-8A Harrier ;

So far I have only managed a little interior painting on some of the sub assembly's ;

Wolfpac give the modeller quite a good history of each aircraft depicted with their decal sheets and they mention that this particular AV-8A was fitted with the Stencel SEU-3/A seat . I recently picked up the Pavla resin Stencel seat which has the overhead handle ;

Next I'll start  glueing the cockpit and fuselage halves together and continue on with some proper WIP pic's to follow soon .

John .

Wow. It's really been a while. Sorry guys didn't really mean to stray away from this GB for that long.

Ok, so a month into the new year I finally decided I would start mine. I'll have some pictures up soon. It's actually a revisited project I'm doing.

Awesome looking builds Fly-n-hi!!!

Bsyamato and Fly-n-hi, excellent job to both you two.

Both harriers came out as top notch builds.

Thanks bsyamoto.  The beacon light is just some clear sprue that I sanded into shape and the nose gear light is a lens from the spares box.

Well done Fly-n-hi

what you used for the lights?

I took a couple of pics of the old with the new.  I built the other Harrier about 2 or 3 years ago after being inspired by the movie True Lies.  Its the wrong squadron but it has the weapons loadout from the film.

Hi guys,

I finally finished her.  Sorry that I didn't take any progress pics along the way.  It was too late to take any assembly pics and I was just too lazy to take pics of the painting process.  But jetmodeler was kind enough to let me participate anyway.

First, though, let me say that you guys have some nice builds.  I've enjoyed lurking in this GB.

This kit is the Monogram 1/48 AV-8B Harrier.  I built it OOB but I did add the beacon light, the VHF antenna, the gun muzzle and the nose gear light.  

This kit, in my opinion, is great.  Overall I think it captures the shape of the AV-8B better than any other kit.  Its my second Monogram/Revell Harrier, in fact.  

The only major fit issue is the part where the wing sits in the fuselage "saddle."  You just have to spend some time fitting it right and filling the seams above and below but its not too bad.  Also, for some reason the raised detail does not line up symmetrically on the fuselage halves.  The most notable offenders are the slime light boxes and the pitot tube guide marks.  They really need to be sanded/filled.  The instructions leave out some important decal placement as well.  Also, it can be a little difficult to get the plane to sit on all 5 wheels.  You have to take care to get that part right.

The canopy doesn't line up with the windscreen too well, either.  It doesn't look so good in the closed position.

I cut off the fuel tanks just because I think the lines of the plane show up better without them.  But I probably will add some better ordinance later.  I want to leave it OOB for now.

Anyway, enough talking.  Here she is.  Hope you enjoy it:

This is what I've been calling the "Fly-n-hi effect."  I paint on functional slimelights:

I picked up this kit at Modelzona 2011 for $6.  Here's the box art:

Leave it open for a couple more weeks at least.  I just put the decals on my Harrier and I figure I should be done in the next week or so.  I'll just post pics when its done.

Thanx for comments Vance if i don't get more harriers soon think i complete the GB  

That's a great finish bsyamato, everything stayed squared-up nicely & the wheels are all on the ground at the same time! Nice job with the nose probe as well,

Many thanx Trey and Jettmodeler

Heres the final pictures

that's all for the GR3

Now the workbench is almost clear

~bsyamato~ Nicely done. The antennas look great. Gives it a nice touch especially in that scale. Can't wait to see the finished pics.

~Fly-n-hi~ Sure you can join. I added you to the roster and your ready to go.

jetmodeler,

I grabbed a Monogram 1/48 AV-8B back in November at a model swap meet and started building it about 2 or 3 weeks ago.  It's about 80% done (it's already painted and I just gloss coated it tonight) but I didn't take any progress pics along the way.  If I had seen this GB earlier I would have taken some pics but its the same as TREYZX10R's Harrier so they'd be similar anyway.

Do you mind if I still join?

Bsyamato what a great build and the antenae are over the top. The finsh looks awesome as well,nicely done Sir!

take the magic potion and 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

VanceCrozier

 

bsyamato:

 

Vance you're no longer to thruth, i have  an alchemic potion than turn myself into 1/24 scale so i can easy work on these little pieces

 

 

I knew it!!!

LOL also i use 1/24 scale tools on the detail work from tamiya sets

this afternoon put on all antennas on the gr3 and paainted some ,only the airbrake idraulic support need some work

bsyamato

Vance you're no longer to thruth, i have  an alchemic potion than turn myself into 1/24 scale so i can easy work on these little pieces

I knew it!!!

Thanx for comments guys

Vance you're no longer to thruth, i have  an alchemic potion than turn myself into 1/24 scale so i can easy work on these little pieces

btw i'm working on last details on the harrier and soon will be complete.

I'm a little excited about finish the gr3, the one from matchbox (actually owned by a friend) was one of first kits i finished about 20-25 years ago, and plus at the time i've opened the the engine molded with coke can aluminium also one of my favourite modern planes

I think you're right Vance lol

I'm still convinced he's really working in 1/48 and takes pictures with somebody's extra-large fingers holding the parts...

Another quality build in the works Bsyamato,lookin' good!

Looking good bsyamato, it's got a very well-worn look. And the details you've added... most people wouldn't have seen those, let alone try to add them!!

Traveller~ You've been added to the list.

Vance~ Excellent job. A picture of your build has been added to the first page.

Bsyamato~ Coming along nicely

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

Many thanx Trey for comments

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

Bsyamato its really looking good,nice fix on the gear door and nozzles.

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

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Wow, I've been gone for a while. Great work so far everyone.

Helo~ You've been add to the group build.

Traveller~ Sounds great. Did you want to add both kits to the GB?

Bsyamato looking sharp ,color looks spot on

Vance awesome looking build,nicely done Sir!!

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....

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

The build went fine, just my thumb getting in the way. (And I'm happy with how the repair turned out too) The gray is a mix of Tamiya acrylics, pretty close to RLM 74 though. I wasn't going to get into FS#s and paint chips on this one, every colour photo from the Falklands era seemed to be different,

VanceCrozier

Manstein's revenge:

1) How did you get the roundels to lay in the intakes--cut em?

 

I positioned them over the intakes, blotted the water out but didn't add any decal solvent. Let them dry an hour or so to make sure there wouldn't be any slipping around, then cut them & add the decal solvent.

 

Manstein's revenge:

2) What happened that smudged the one in the pic?

 

ARGHHH! I already had the decals in place with a little (but obviously not enough) clear-coat overspray. Then I began adding those foolish blade antennas. Put a little drop of glue on the antenna, while in tweezers, then drop it into place. Simple right? Then one of the antennas popped out of the tweezers. I picked it up, put it back in the tweezers & dropped it into place.

However, when I picked it up I got a smudge of Tamiya Extra Thin on my thumb, then I put my thumb dead-center on the roundel as I picked up the model again. Smudge-a-palooza!! I had to do a little roundel roundup from the spares on that sheet to replace what I smudged!

What color grey is that?

Manstein's revenge

1) How did you get the roundels to lay in the intakes--cut em?

I positioned them over the intakes, blotted the water out but didn't add any decal solvent. Let them dry an hour or so to make sure there wouldn't be any slipping around, then cut them & add the decal solvent.

Manstein's revenge

2) What happened that smudged the one in the pic?

ARGHHH! I already had the decals in place with a little (but obviously not enough) clear-coat overspray. Then I began adding those foolish blade antennas. Put a little drop of glue on the antenna, while in tweezers, then drop it into place. Simple right? Then one of the antennas popped out of the tweezers. I picked it up, put it back in the tweezers & dropped it into place.

However, when I picked it up I got a smudge of Tamiya Extra Thin on my thumb, then I put my thumb dead-center on the roundel as I picked up the model again. Smudge-a-palooza!! I had to do a little roundel roundup from the spares on that sheet to replace what I smudged!

Two questions:

1) How did you get the roundels to lay in the intakes--cut em?

2) What happened that smudged the one in the pic?

The ejection seat looks good for a 1/72 jet, but the Eduard cockpit sets would finish these up nicely.

The GR9 looks as nice I'm assuming? Too recent for me though, too gray. (I know, I just finished a dark sea gray Sea Harrier!!!) I'd like to pick up a Harrier GR3 & slap some winter ambush camo on it...

I bought two of these M0J0's recently---the kit you have and the GR9 (with the sexy nose-art)

...very nice kits.  I also got the Eduard pre-colored cockpit zoom for 'em...very nice.

Manstein's revenge

 

VanceCrozier:

 

Mine was more of a "rushing to do something before I had to leave the house" accident, but it still means a mess to clean up!

Pics!

Port side before the glue issue, it looks so happy!! Also before the "mist coat" I applied to dull down the decals which looked too bright for the Falklands planes.

The underside decals, after I sliced & applied the roundels in halves...

The rest are "after the mist coat" . I think I like the effect, maybe took it a little far in places. Note the brass rod replacing the kit pitot tube.

Blade antennas in place...

And the screwed-up port-side roundel - what a mess!

BUT, I think I found the solution sitting in the same box, combining roundel decals from the two other options seems to measure out at the right sizes. I'll try it on a blank piece of styrene first just to make sure, but this is the plan:

 

Hey, is that one of those new-tool Airfix Harriers?  I just bought two and they look cherry in the box...

 

Manny, what are you doing in here, these things were all built after the RLM went out of business!!! Yes, that's the new-tool Airfix kit. The panel lines are a little too wide for my taste but overall it's a very good kit. I bought it for the Falklands option, but the other two decal options provided are making me think I need some more Harriers in my life. (All, I should have my finished pics up before the weekend!)

VanceCrozier

Mine was more of a "rushing to do something before I had to leave the house" accident, but it still means a mess to clean up!

Pics!

Port side before the glue issue, it looks so happy!! Also before the "mist coat" I applied to dull down the decals which looked too bright for the Falklands planes.

The underside decals, after I sliced & applied the roundels in halves...

The rest are "after the mist coat" . I think I like the effect, maybe took it a little far in places. Note the brass rod replacing the kit pitot tube.

Blade antennas in place...

And the screwed-up port-side roundel - what a mess!

BUT, I think I found the solution sitting in the same box, combining roundel decals from the two other options seems to measure out at the right sizes. I'll try it on a blank piece of styrene first just to make sure, but this is the plan:

Wow, I've been gone for a while. Great work so far everyone.

Helo~ You've been add to the group build.

Traveller~ Sounds great. Did you want to add both kits to the GB?

Just in the middle of a TSR-2 Airfix group build, and doing an MQ-9 Reaper for fun. 1/48 Tamiya Sea Harrier, with my own spin on it is my next project in conjuction with an IDF F-16C. Should be fun

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 () !

Today i'm feeling better withouth the B clown

Updates from the gr3 

i washed the cockpit.

On the ip tried something differents , i read here (don't remember the post) someone used gloss coat as glue for little pices, then searchin a good way to simulate instruments glass i proceded so:

after scratched the ip details on the black background i painted it with clear gloss and put on the upper part of ip

Also added and drybrushed the rudder pedals (scratched too)

Also added the ejection handle on the seat (a metal wire)

then i drilled the lateral camera "eye", and put from the inner side a piece of heated clear sprue ,removed the IR sensor on the nose to put something after .

and painted the inner nose with flat black .

then all main parts are glued!

the fit is not perfect here

that's all for now

here some progress on the gr3

... the ip with macro seems a christmas tree

aargh! the super etendard cockpit and ip was better, it's time to get some magnifief to paint these parts.

the cockpit

hope the weathering/washes will resolve the christmas aspect, that's all for today 

I airbrushed the windscreen frames at the same time as the airframe, they just need to be attached. I should be alright. (But I usually do attach glass first, paint after.)

pucara sounds good

the danger about to put the windscreen after to finish all is a possible differences between the frames and aircraft surfaces. 

Windscreen - I'm not really sure to be honest! I was thinking I should keep it off until after the last mist-coat over the new decal... but I really should mask the cockpit (or the windscreen) before doing that anyway... I should have this wrapped up on the weekend though.

Then, on to the Pucara!

Magnific harrier stash Helo what's the best 1/72 shaped kit between this stash by your opinion?

The av-8 prototype is really intresting as subject

Vance nice progress and saves there. Why you don't glued the windscreen before the pitot?

TREYZX10R

Vance I hope the fix works out that is a great looking build. Pitot tube looks great as well

John Wow now thats a stash!!!

HAH - the pitot tube! That was a "necessity is the mother of invention: moments. The shape on the kit-suuplied part looked fine, but I snapped the bloody thing as I was trying to sand off a pour-stub attachment point. A scrap of plastic, brass rod & CA to the rescue!

Took off the mangled decal by sanding and "flaking" it off with a sharp exacto blade. The portions that made their way inside the intakes were left alone, I just figured I was asking for trouble if I played with thhat area too much. Added a brush-coat of Future & left to dry a few days.

A Harrier with blue+white roundel... interesting look!

And the smaller red+blue roundel fit inside the white area perfectly, just a little touch of overlap.

A little MicroSol and slicing helped it settle into place, again. I'll give it a light overspray this weekend. The exhaust nozzles have since been painted a burnt-metal.

Vance I hope the fix works out that is a great looking build. Pitot tube looks great as well

John Wow now thats a stash!!!

Hi everyone ;

I've been watching from the side lines all the great work you guy's are doing with your Harrier builds ,

Awesome stuff...

I dropped out of a lot of Group Builds earlier in the year because of time and family issues , however it's really tempting to want to join in with everyone else .

I have a few 1/72 Harrier's in the stash and I've built two about three years ago , so perhaps it's time for another . Here's a pic of the stash ;

The easiest way would be to build one straight out of the box , however I alway's seem to want to do things the hard way and after looking through Squadrons Harrier in action book , I saw this pic of an YAV-8C ...

According to the caption it appears to be a AV-8A Harrier with what looks to be some additional strakes under the gun pods ?

So I was thinking of using one of my Esci AV-8A kits as they have the correct shaped horizontal stabilizers ;

Anyway , I kindly ask if I may join in with everyone else , if my first idea doesn't work out , I can always just build one OOB .

                          John .

Alright, my replacement "decal sandwich" seems to have worked. I applied the white + blue roundel two nights ago, let it sit & applied the smaller blue & red roundel over it last night. I'm sure you could see it close-up, but after I give it a quick spray of the gray filter, only I will ever know. (Well, and you guys too I suppose!) Pics with next update.

Mine was more of a "rushing to do something before I had to leave the house" accident, but it still means a mess to clean up!

Pics!

Port side before the glue issue, it looks so happy!! Also before the "mist coat" I applied to dull down the decals which looked too bright for the Falklands planes.

The underside decals, after I sliced & applied the roundels in halves...

The rest are "after the mist coat" . I think I like the effect, maybe took it a little far in places. Note the brass rod replacing the kit pitot tube.

Blade antennas in place...

And the screwed-up port-side roundel - what a mess!

BUT, I think I found the solution sitting in the same box, combining roundel decals from the two other options seems to measure out at the right sizes. I'll try it on a blank piece of styrene first just to make sure, but this is the plan:

VanceCrozier

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the home stretch on the Sea Harrier. Landing gear getting painted up, decided to add some of the blade antennas last night. Added glue to one of the ones behind the cockpit, started to move it into place & dropped it on the painted surface. No problem, I grab it quickly with fingers, put it back into the tweezers, pick up the plane & carry on.

Then I realize that...

• I had a little smudge of glue on my thumb
• my thumb happened to fall exactly where the RN decided the roundel should be placed
• perhaps my flat coat wasn't thick enough
• Airfix decals MELT when touched by Tamiya liquid cement
• my red + blue smudgy thumbprint looks nothing like a RN roundel

With no spare roundels that match up (small, red+blue only), I'm thinking of gently sanding out the worst of the smudge, then just overpainting the base-colour gray. Thoughts?

Thats probably what I would do. For the roundel you could mask and paint the colors for it.

Just an idea.

at least you're at good point to finish, i am again on the cockpit, just the ejection seat was primed in black

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the home stretch on the Sea Harrier. Landing gear getting painted up, decided to add some of the blade antennas last night. Added glue to one of the ones behind the cockpit, started to move it into place & dropped it on the painted surface. No problem, I grab it quickly with fingers, put it back into the tweezers, pick up the plane & carry on.

Then I realize that...

• I had a little smudge of glue on my thumb
• my thumb happened to fall exactly where the RN decided the roundel should be placed
• perhaps my flat coat wasn't thick enough
• Airfix decals MELT when touched by Tamiya liquid cement
• my red + blue smudgy thumbprint looks nothing like a RN roundel

With no spare roundels that match up (small, red+blue only), I'm thinking of gently sanding out the worst of the smudge, then just overpainting the base-colour gray. Thoughts?

LOL

effectively an 1/24 harrier is so hard to see

Casper I just realized I forgot to add you to the front page, but your add now.

That's never a bad idea around here!

... and after use the chainsaw to cut some wood for the winter

Ahhhh - this is where my brain cramps up from lack of modern jets. (That's my excuse anyway!!) I'm using Tamiya acrylics in the airbrush, wanted to have some parts in place before spraying to avoid tricky touchups. I mounted the outboard weapons pylons & then sprayed.... then last night realized that the pylons sit over top of the underside roundels!! I guess I'll have to do some decal slicing!

Casper that is going to be a serious build for sure, ca'nt wait to see it start coming together!

Casper the Chihuahua

I got my Flightpath Sea Harrier FRS1 upgrade set in the post today. Very nice!

5 sheets of beautifully detailed brass PE, some lovely resin wheels and AIM Sidewinder missiles, film for the IP and 3 bags of cast white metal. A lot of the ejector seat and landing gear is to replaced with this.

This drool-worthy stuff!

Cheers

That is indeed a nice pile of goodies. That should look spectacular in 1/24!!

Casper the Chihuahua

I got my Flightpath Sea Harrier FRS1 upgrade set in the post today. Very nice!

5 sheets of beautifully detailed brass PE, some lovely resin wheels and AIM Sidewinder missiles, film for the IP and 3 bags of cast white metal. A lot of the ejector seat and landing gear is to replaced with this.

This drool-worthy stuff!

Cheers

WOW! Your going at this one full force. lol

I got my Flightpath Sea Harrier FRS1 upgrade set in the post today. Very nice!

5 sheets of beautifully detailed brass PE, some lovely resin wheels and AIM Sidewinder missiles, film for the IP and 3 bags of cast white metal. A lot of the ejector seat and landing gear is to replaced with this.

This drool-worthy stuff!

Cheers

I knew it!!!!

Ops!! you uncovered my secret my height is about 2,50 mt 

OK, with all that detail work he does, I'm starting to think bsyamato is actually working in 1/48 and has abnormally large fingers!!! Looking good again buddy. I made some progress over the weekend, mixed & sprayed my first coat of overall gray on the Harrier. (I had some RLM grau-violett already mixed, I started with that as a base. If I don't like the final look of the colour I'll have to do a tint-wash afterwards to dirty it up some.)  Pics later,

Looks like your front office is coming along nicely.

jetmodeler

 

Casper the Chihuahua:

 

I hid it in the mancave

Cheers

 

 

That should be a good place for a while.

batman cave probably better try to put on the harrier a stealth mode

so, two pictures of cockpit progress before i go too forward

thanx to the reference pictures discovered by vance , lots of pieces again needed ,as another type of cloche rear the throttles, probably used for the hoovering stage.

That's all for the night 

Casper the Chihuahua

I hid it in the mancave

Cheers

That should be a good place for a while.

I hid it in the mancave

Cheers

Casper the Chihuahua

 

bsyamato:

 

 

 

 

intelligenge work needed, but when finished ?

 

 

Not until next year I'm afraid.

Cheers

Sorry i'm thinkin in italian and write in english , when  is finished how you hide this giant from your wife view ?

bsyamato

 

 

 

intelligenge work needed, but when finished ?

Not until next year I'm afraid.

Cheers

Casper the Chihuahua

 

TREYZX10R:

 

Casper thats gonna be HUUUUUGE! Ca'nt wait to see it get started already!!!

 

 

Yup! I've hidden this one from the wife!

Cheers

intelligenge work needed, but when finished ?

TREYZX10R

Casper thats gonna be HUUUUUGE! Ca'nt wait to see it get started already!!!

Yup! I've hidden this one from the wife!

Cheers

Casper thats gonna be HUUUUUGE! Ca'nt wait to see it get started already!!!

Casper the Chihuahua

Hi jetmodeler, are crossovers allowed? I'm doing a Airfix Harrier FRS.1 1/24 for the Airfix GB.

Cheers

The Harriers are looking great everyone. Keep up the good work.

Sure, crossovers are allowed.

Picked up the Airfix Sea Harrier yesterday, Gods it's a monster!

Note the pot of Tamiya paint to demonstrate scale.

Cheers

Hi jetmodeler, are crossovers allowed? I'm doing a Airfix Harrier FRS.1 1/24 for the Airfix GB.

Cheers

Thanx for comments, good harrier vance! the kit seems recent, i'll try to get a copy but actually out of sold on my favourite customers

Looking great Vance!

Nice work on the Harriers, folks!  Just finished a book about a Marine Harrier pilot's experience in Afghanistan that you might be interested in reading.  "A Nightmare's Prayer" written by retired Lt. Col. Michael Kranzak.  Those guys are amazing!

Keep up the good work,

Ken

EDIT!! pics etc up now! The cockpit, oob, including the decals for instrument panel & side consoles. The pics make my highlight on the buckles look REALLy bright, not like that in person. And not much of this will be visible once she's all sealed up anyway.

Underside looked fine except for a couple of sinkholes (the glob of putty near the nose gear!), and a gap at the wingroot, apparently I trimmed too much when making that fit. A little CA & nobody will ever see it anyway I suppose.

Topside - the wing-to-fuselage joint has one "up-step" and one "down-step", making me think some pilot error is at work here.

Nose-cone? Does anyone here know for sure... is the nose-cone supposed to have the same profile all-around? Mine looks like it is flatter on one side than the other...

The exhaust nozzles - nicely moulded, but the 2 halves join right in the middle of the fins. I ended up running a little CA over top of the fins, then a rather thick coat of black paint. Not perfect, but it'll do. (Aden guns installed here already, I drilled out the muzzles. Some things I'm going out of order on...)

My little Japanese friend was doing pics with some IJN and IJA aircraft, he stuck around to pose with the Sea Harrier...

Looking good so far gang. Summer has been largely keeping me away from the bench, but I found some time to get into my Sea Harrier over the past two weeks. If I get a chance I'll get my photos caught up here today or tomorrow.

Bsyamato thats great scratch building,looks like some surgical skills on the ip panel nicely done !

"She's a beaut Clark!" Very nice work. I hope mine turns out that nice.

Thanks Jetmodeler, I really should've known better with the decals on a kit that old lol

Excellent job on such an old kit. Sorry to hear about the thick decals.

Your finished build has been posted on the first page.

bsyamato

well done

Thanks, and again appreciate the help !

well done

I finished it up this evening ,not a bad kit for a $12 ebay deal. I'll get some better pics this weekend.

bsyamato

updating black book entries.. Decals  chapter :" monogram often have bad decals".

I think academy is already at the first place for decals .... looking at the list upside down.

Actual your harrier have original decals or aftermarket is on?

I used the original kit ones, I wo'nt be doing that again!

updating black book entries.. Decals  chapter :" monogram often have bad decals".

I think academy is already at the first place for decals .... looking at the list upside down.

Actual your harrier have original decals or aftermarket is on?

These Decals sucked! I sprayed them with decal bond good thing too as  that was the only thing that made them useable. They are thick as phone books and took repeated applications of  micro sol to lay down and rid the silvering. I should've bought aftermarket ,oh well they're on now.

Was a pleasure, this is the advantage of GB, on the falkland GB someone help me to use right color with my super etendard (waith to finish it to continue my gr3)

Whow the camo is really pop up with clear layer

jetmodeler

TREYZX10R:

Bsyamato,huge thanks I fixed it and thankfully I had'nt primed it yet! I owe ya one Bro

 

Nice save.

Thanks to Bsyamato!

I got the basic cammo done followed by some klear ,ready for decals

TREYZX10R

Bsyamato,huge thanks I fixed it and thankfully I had'nt primed it yet! I owe ya one Bro

Nice save.

Bsyamato,huge thanks I fixed it and thankfully I had'nt primed it yet! I owe ya one Bro

jetmodeler

 

~Bsyamato~ I see you went with the vertical takeoff. Looks good so far.

no no ! all these work was done before gb starts  with shared time with others kits on workbench they take about a month to reach this step.. was not vertical take off

TREYZX10R thanx for comments but pay attention at the little auxiliars intakes on the av-8, i fear you glued it in reverse posiion, click here to take a look, is the italian version but don't think harriers have these function different .

i hope you not already put on the primer

Looks like some good progress. I see there wasn't many fit issues.

Bsyamato thanks, nice find with the seat and scratching a 1/72 office takes some eye warping skills better you than me !

Jetmodeler thanks glad I'm not the only one that struggles with those colors

More prgress, the intake took some persuading but finally went in

wing fit was decent ,small amount of filling will be required

gun pod fit was really good thankfully

added a brass tube for the cannon barrel

TREYZX10R

 

 

Why is it that yellow and white always give me a hard time ? Anybody else have trouble with these colors?

~TREYZX10R~ Looking good so far. The project that I'm repainting for my step-dad is the old Monogram kit. He even used the same markings. 
Yellow likes to give me the most trouble. White gives me trouble but not as much as the yellow.

Why can't all colors just cover like grey paint does.

~Bsyamato~ I see you went with the vertical takeoff. Looks good so far.

TREYZX10R this is vertical take of nce cockpit painting

White for me is the enemy number one for modellers

just finished five layer on my super etendard (falkland gb as the harrier i'll post here) and seems again not so good yellow are more human but need a underlayer of light gray or... white to work better.

so.. here's my harrier gr3, previous wip resume

the kit is the old good Esci harrier, with some improving by italeri. panels are fortunately engraved.

Cockpit will be scratched, on my magazine fortunately i had an old aeroclub martin baker for this plane.

Nozzles will be totally drilled and improved

By the kit main gear will be glued before to close fuselage, then i glued some plastic piece to allow gear glued after finishing all.

worded even on secondary intakes 

and main parts glued

the cockpit work till now

that's all, now i can continue on it 

The office was pretty basic

The Intake and nose wheel housing done,took more coats of white than I would've liked came out ok tho

Why is it that yellow and white always give me a hard time ? Anybody else have trouble with these colors?

Okay I can live with the decals, not real good but useable  so its going to be VMA-331 .Dry fit of the big bits revealed a warped wing and fuselage no biggie easy fix

bsyamato

we can start with a brief rolling on the track or we need to start in vertical take off?

 

You can start however you want.

Just get that bird in the air.

we can start with a brief rolling on the track or we need to start in vertical take off?

Sorry guys about the 4 day "delay".

The GB is officially a GO!

TREY~ Sounds great. Hopefully the decals are in good condition.

biqua~ added you to the list.

Hello would like to be able to take part of the group, with one be harrier in 1/144 of minicraft and a restuaracion of a harrier gr1 of matchbox.

 Regards

 Paul

I scored a Monogram 1/48 on evil bay when it gets here I'll decide on the markings and version,really depends on what kind of shape the decals are in.

STFD637

[View:/themes/fsm/utility/:550:0]Here is my submission. AMT AV-8B Harrier II. I will be doing it in the older tricolor Marine Paint scheme.

 

The first project I'm doing is a "revisited project". My step dad built the kit about 20 yrs ago or so and he wanted me to repaint it for him.  

It was painted in that scheme before I stripped the paint. I believe the markings were VMA-331.

(Starts tomorrow)

[View:/themes/fsm/utility/:550:0]Here is my submission. AMT AV-8B Harrier II. I will be doing it in the older tricolor Marine Paint scheme.

Just 3 more days.

Alright. You two have been added.

(5 more days)

I'm in, not sure which kit yet

I would like to get in on this as a cross over from the Falklands GB, where I am building a 1/48 Tamiya RN Sea Harrier FRS1.

Cheers,

Michael

There's only eight more days left.

Wow. Theres only four of us so far.

Alright. You guys have been added.

Please count me in. Not sure which Harrier I will pull out of the stash I have about 4 in there. I will let you know in a few days. Right now I am leaning toward Esci/Ertl AV-8B witht the older Marine Green/Grey scheme. I have a few other builds to wrap up so may be a bit before any WIP are posted.

Thanks,

Travis/STFD637

jetmodeler

...You have to build a Harrier. Cross overs are allowed. ..

I like the rules so far!!! I'm in with an Airfix 1/72 Sea Harrier, crossing over with the Falklands GB that is underway.

As far as "my first group build, am I missing anything" goes - hey, it's your group build & can be as simple as you like. I guess the only other "rule" is for builders to share pics & info as they go, the "group" portion of the group build! I've painted a few cockpit pieces but will put the rest on pause until your start date.

italeri harrier gr3 1/72

bsyamato~ The kit that you have on hold, what kit is it?

i'm here.

just post an advertising on the gb feeler so others can know the gb is moved here

Here is the Group Build badge.

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