Revell AV8B Harrier in 1/144 scale

[Steve Brodie]

Nice, good work on the blow doors, pretty sure an American company make a resin replacement set, not that you need it

[yak face]

Bit more progress on the Harrier today . Got the canopy on and the two TINY air scoops that sit either side of it. How i managed to attach these without losing them is a miracle. The rest of the parts to be added will be done after paint as it would be impossible to try and mask the two different colours ( its going to be very tricky even now)

[Mini Me]

Nice work Tony.....you pass muster as a small scale modeler.....and the carpet monster is starving while you have successfully managed those tiny bits of styrene. Well done Sir. :thumb2:
Rick H.

[papa 695]

Looking very good.

[Neil Merryweather]

Scary -in a good way, of course

[Guest]

No PE? :smiling2::tongue-out3:

[yak face]

Today i started preparing all the tiny parts to be added after painting. The very fragile nicely detailed undercarriage was extremely carefully detached from the sprue and attached to a stirring stick . The front pair of exhausts were solid on the end so i drilled these out and cleaned them up then fixed these and the rear pair to the stick . All the little bits and the main airframe were then primed in Halfords white .

[adt70hk]

And people think 1/72 is small....

Great work so far Tony!!

[papa 695]

Coming along nicely Tony

[yak face]

Cheers everyone , I cant recommend this kit highly enough , the detail would put many a 1/48 kit to shame , just make sure youve got a good magnifier and some fine tweezers!!!

[yak face]

Time for paint on this one now . I started with the underside grey ( in this case fs36320 dark ghost grey) then when cured i masked up the underside and applied the top colour ( fs 36231 dark gull grey) . The masking was very tricky as not only is it so small but the three pylons on each wing made it more difficult . Anyways its done and ive taken off the masking and it worked very well . The distinction between the two greys is almost imperceptible at a distance but it is on the real thing as well. Ive just got the nose cone to do now then its on to the undercarriage and missiles.

[papa 695]

Great work Tony. Being such a small kit, it could be very easy to flood the paint, but you’ve done a great job of it.

[yak face]

Got the decals on , some of which were really tiny! The control surfaces were highlighted then I gave it a coat of satin varnish as i wanted to get the slightly shiny finish seen on most modern aircraft, but it looked too shiny so I gave it a quick misting of matt to dull it down a bit . Next up is unmask the canopy and get the undercarriage and sidewinders fitted .

[yak face]

Undercarriage now done and the Missile rails and sidewinders have been fitted . The sidewinders were quite a bugger to paint and decal , the red and yellow decal stripes not wanting to play ball and taking a lot of persuading to wrap around the tiny diameter of the missile .

[Fernando N]

Lovely little Harrier Tony :thumb2: