You can start however you want.[:D]
Just get that bird in the air.[:P]
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
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?
TREYZX10R this is vertical take of [:D] nce cockpit painting
White for me is the enemy number one for modellers [8o|]
just finished five layer on my super etendard (falkland gb as the harrier i’ll post here) and seems again not so good [bnghead] yellow are more human but need a underlayer of light gray or… white to work better.
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so… here’s my harrier gr3, previous wip resume
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the kit is the old good Esci harrier, with some improving by italeri. panels are fortunately engraved.
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Cockpit will be scratched, on my magazine fortunately i had an old aeroclub martin baker for this plane.
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Nozzles will be totally drilled and improved
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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.
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worded even on secondary intakes
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and main parts glued
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the cockpit work till now
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that’s all, now i can continue on it
~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.[sml…]
~Bsyamato~ I see you went with the vertical takeoff.[:D] Looks good so far.
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
Looks like some good progress. I see there wasn’t many fit issues.[:D]
no no ! all these work was done before gb starts [:O] 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
Bsyamato,huge thanks I fixed it and thankfully I had’nt primed it yet! I owe ya one Bro[t$t]
Nice save.[Y]
Thanks to Bsyamato!
I got the basic cammo done followed by some klear ,ready for decals
Was a pleasure, this is the advantage of GB, on the falkland GB someone help me to use right color with my super etendard [Y] (waith to finish it to continue my gr3)
Whow the camo is really pop up with clear layer [:P]
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.
updating black book entries… Decals chapter :" monogram often have bad decals".
I think academy is already at the first place for decals [H] … 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!
I finished it up this evening ,not a bad kit for a $12 ebay deal. I’ll get some better pics this weekend.
well done [Y]
Thanks, and again appreciate the help !
Excellent job on such an old kit. Sorry to hear about the thick decals.
Your finished build has been posted on the first page.
Thanks Jetmodeler, I really should’ve known better with the decals on a kit that old lol