Jessie C.------------beautiful model. I am sure you had your hands full with that decal job but the end result is outstanding.


Regards, Ian

Jessie
Fantastic A300! That scheme looks great on your build.

Have fun modeling!
Mike

Ok here it was two weeks ago before i went off tow work ready for the paint shop


and now i am back form work, stright into it with the start of the painting


with some light shading

Hi all I'm sorry about the lack of progress on the Italeri harrier gr3 but I have had a lot to deal with lately in the shape of a problem ridden F 86 Sabre for the fighters campaign. Also because there simply has not been any progress on the Harrier because I cant find the clear parts for the canopy anywhere so I may have to send off to Italeri for some new parts or if I really can't get my hands on any then I may have to drop out of the build which would be a real downer for me

Anyway all your builds are looking great so far and I am really looking forward to seeing the end products!

Hi All,
I've done a little more progress on my Hawk and have a few touch ups too sort out, before the application of the cammo scheme.

I'm yet to finish the resin seats and add the cockpit detail and have added a turned brass pitot tube.

Stewart,
Great progress on your Tornado.

Now the gear is on and the weapons are attached. My research indicated NATO weapons were olive drab, but it looks a bit light on the GBU-16s.

Here's an update on my progress with the 1/72 Italeri Hawk. I now have the cockpit painted and ready for the fuselage to be assembled. It looks a lot better in gray than it did in the red plastic!.





I am now moving on to the wings as I want to do a little work on them before they get joined to the fuselage.
Have fun modeling!
Mike

Here are two more photos of the progress so far on my F3.
I wanted to go for the dirty weathered look on this one.

Changed focus from my Harrier GR.3 to my RAAF Hawk 128. Got the base coat sprayed, then masked up for the darker top colour:
Masked:

Sprayed:

...and Revealed!

It needs a re-mask and respray around the nose, but the rest is OK.

The Harrier GR.3 is getting close. Half the decals are done and the canopy frames are mostly painted. I hate canopies. I have bought some Maskol but I'm not game to try it yet. Masking and brush painting one frame section at a time...

Jessica, your Airbus looks great! Always enjoy seeing the civil side of things on here. Harry, your Harrier looks quite good as well. You both should be proud to add these to your collections. Russell

P.S. Stewart, I really like the job you are doing on your Tornado too!

Getting somewhere slowly with the Harrier


Airfix Harrier GR7a/GR9a 1/72 by mawz_models, on Flickr

Cockpit and intakes ready for paint.

Cheers Rob.

OK. So the painting is finished and I will finish the decals next week. I have never varnished an aircraft before, but I have bought some Humbrol Matt Cote. Now I need some advice: brush? spray? Will it blend in the "shiny" of the decals to match the kit paint? What should I look out for? The instructions say thin with white spirit, does anyone have any experience with this?
My Harrier has been a lot of firsts for me: first spray camouflage, first use of blu-tack masking, first varnish. It doesn't match the level of skills I see demonstrated here, but I am pretty happy with it. Unfortunately I am a bit of a perfectionist and seeing others superior results is what got me out of the hobby 30 years ago. I am just trying to enjoy it now.

Hi Harry first of all what you have done so far looks great, I really like the way you have approach this campaign with firsts. I too am a perfectionist and look in ore with some of the work produced on this site.my way of applying the clear coat, I spray my on I do it this way to achieve an even layer over the model, if you have an old kit have a go on that first. If you are using humbrol clear then use a Humbrol thinner as some thinners don’t mix to well with other brands IE can take the shine out of some pigments in the paint
I clear coat all my kits with a semi gloss then apply the decals and then wash in the panel lines, do any weathering and then seal it all with another semi Gloss. I am sure other builders have there way of doing thing, but this seams to get the result I am looking for.
Enjoy your build and I look forward to seeing more.

Thanks for the tips, Stewart. I am away for a few weeks, but when I get back I will varnish a "Hangar Queen" F6F-5 Hellcat as a test, then try it on the Harrier. She has turned out quite well for so many firsts, so I don't want to stuff it up right at the last!

Here she is all complete,and ready to add to the collection.
RAF F3 Tornado.

That's pretty
Just the right amount of soot from the thrust reversers.

Beeatiful F.3 Stewart.................looks every inch a combat jet.

Best wishes, Ian

Great Tornado Stewart, especially the weathering.

Lovely work, Stewart! The panel lines and weathering really make it work!

Hi fellow modelers! Things have been really slow on my end this summer and not as much building going on as I would have liked. I am just about finished up with a model for another GB, and have started back on my Hawk for this Campaign. While I was working on the cockpit, I also started working on the wings with my plan to assemble the main parts in the near future. First thing to do is to fill the unwanted open holes for the (not needed) pylons. I used the tried and true method of glueing in some stretched sprue into the excess holes in the wings. This is a lot easier for me than filling in the holes later with putty.



The next step with the wings is to add the PE wing fences from the Airways detail set. These look a lot better than the thick plastic ones in the kit.





Next up will be to pull all of this together in an assembled airframe.

Have fun modeling!
Mike

I did some more work on the 1/48th Sea Harrier. Completed the cockpit tub and closed up the fuselage this weekend.


Regards, Ian

Little more done.
After getting a coat of paint on the intakes they needed some clean up and I found that one had too wide a radius on the outside, so I cut a slot in it and glued it back together and that fixed the problem. Also got the wings glued up and some ordnance.

Cheers Rob.