Official Harrier GB

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.

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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.