Official Harrier GB

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?