VTOL SB - ***Finished 10th December***
Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Started at last!!. Only the seat and the cockpit tub joined up, and the control column!. But we're underway!.
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
A new kit to play with in this new year.
It's my first and only Harrier; I'm not normally a jet builder. If I feel like building a jet, though, it would be one as cool looking as the Harrier.
Still waiting for some AM to come through the mails, so I won't be starting right away. Very soon, though. Going to attempt the Arctic scheme used in Norway.
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Looking good 59North!
You can never have enough Harriers but for me 1 Harrier seems to little for me.......
You can never have enough Harriers but for me 1 Harrier seems to little for me.......
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Back from the holiday break. These pics compare the canopies and their fit.dwomby wrote:...... I read somewhere the canopy is too wide and it's true. It's so wide it hangs out over each side of the fuselage. So it had to go. I am going to use the canopy of an old mould Airfix GR3 which had been earmarked for conversion to a trainer........
The narrower (correctly shaped) GR3 canopy leaves a shoulder of plastic exposed that I needed to carve off each side of the upper fuselage. Port side only is done in this pic.
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Nice work on fitting the lid dwomby!
I've now done enough to get a pic of my progress.
All the weapons pilons have been glued into place, the sidewinders and adapters have been glued on:
I've now done enough to get a pic of my progress.
All the weapons pilons have been glued into place, the sidewinders and adapters have been glued on:
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Painted and loaded the ferry tanks and ordinance today.
You'll have to excuse the yellow stripes on the bombs, I've never been good at weapon detail, I'm even worse with weapon decals!
My Mrs was shocked and asked "could you get anymore onto that Harrier!?"
The answer is no so my target has been achieved!
Who's going to be the first person to tell me Harriers cant carry that amount of weight?
You'll have to excuse the yellow stripes on the bombs, I've never been good at weapon detail, I'm even worse with weapon decals!
My Mrs was shocked and asked "could you get anymore onto that Harrier!?"
The answer is no so my target has been achieved!
Who's going to be the first person to tell me Harriers cant carry that amount of weight?
Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Harriers can't... never mind!!. They could probably carry that much but no vertical take off!!!. And you could have got more on it if you'd used gun pods!!!!.Maverick231 wrote:Painted and loaded the ferry tanks and ordinance today.
You'll have to excuse the yellow stripes on the bombs, I've never been good at weapon detail, I'm even worse with weapon decals!
My Mrs was shocked and asked "could you get anymore onto that Harrier!?"
The answer is no so my target has been achieved!
Who's going to be the first person to tell me Harriers cant carry that amount of weight?
Hoping to return to modelling sometime this year!!
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Ahh you see I was unknowingly weight saving haha!
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Looks great and that loadout looks enormous!!!
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Very nice dwomby!
I'm really looking forward to building mine oob as part of the RAF 100th GB.
I'm really looking forward to building mine oob as part of the RAF 100th GB.
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
I'm declaring this one done.
To break up the silver paint a bit, I applied bare metal foil on the upper wing and leading edges. Not overly successful. Also, in the process I broke off a flap and didn't put it back on quite straight. Of course, it broke of really easily the first time but when I tried to break it off again to correct it, I couldn't budge it without using more force than I am willing to apply!!!
All through her final stages that @&$*!%# nose probe has been terrifying me even though I protected it with a plastic tube. It's a teeny bit bent at the tip but at least it's still all there!
I decided to depict her in a hover, so that means wheels down. I hate painting wheels!!!
I found a couple of photos of XP836 without any of the horrible intake bulges (metal or rubber!) so that's the markings I chose. Strangely, she wasn't wearing a fin flash or underwing serials in the pics, so that's how I have finished her. The Airfix decals were good.
On the whole, it's OK but I'm not too pleased with it. One for the back of the shelf.
Thanks for watching. Comments and suggestions welcome.
I may try to sneak another in this SB later in the year.
David
To break up the silver paint a bit, I applied bare metal foil on the upper wing and leading edges. Not overly successful. Also, in the process I broke off a flap and didn't put it back on quite straight. Of course, it broke of really easily the first time but when I tried to break it off again to correct it, I couldn't budge it without using more force than I am willing to apply!!!
All through her final stages that @&$*!%# nose probe has been terrifying me even though I protected it with a plastic tube. It's a teeny bit bent at the tip but at least it's still all there!
I decided to depict her in a hover, so that means wheels down. I hate painting wheels!!!
I found a couple of photos of XP836 without any of the horrible intake bulges (metal or rubber!) so that's the markings I chose. Strangely, she wasn't wearing a fin flash or underwing serials in the pics, so that's how I have finished her. The Airfix decals were good.
On the whole, it's OK but I'm not too pleased with it. One for the back of the shelf.
Thanks for watching. Comments and suggestions welcome.
I may try to sneak another in this SB later in the year.
David
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Re: VTOL SB - 10th December 2017 - 10th December 2018
Oh, I don't know, David, that looks very boss from where I am standing. Very nice work, especially that nice NBM scheme.
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