Hasegawa AV-8B Harrier II
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Checking size and general fit.
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Seat trimmed for PE.
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Seat PE-ed.
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Seat PE-ed
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Office getting its basic shape...
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Instrument panel.
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Instrument panel an my little helpers.
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Side consoles.
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Some work on the stick.
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The stick.
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Turbine blades sprayed.
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Cockpit works done. Painting pending...
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Cockpit works done. Painting pending...
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A shot of One Shot...
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Ironing with True Metal.
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Seat almost done...
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Instrument panel finished.
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Seat ready.
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Cockpit ready for closing.
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Cockpit mostly done.
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Cockpit ready for closing.
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Airbrake positioned and some more wash added.
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Little helpers in action.
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Little helpers closing the body.
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Drilling rear nozzles.
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Done-ish...
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Splitters on place.
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Checking the se ms with primer.
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Ordnance.
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Front nozzles set.
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More on ordnance.
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Getting his wings...
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Wings secured.
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Ordnance primed and masked.
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Yellow lines...
Few touch-ups nedded, but that's much better then decals.
Few touch-ups nedded, but that's much better then decals.
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Got his first tooth...
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Blackened from above...
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Blackened from below...
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Pylons placed.
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Damn, I like him black...
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Air scoops.
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Diamonds and pears...
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Landing reflector...
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Intakes on place.
Some more putty/sanding yet to come...
Some more putty/sanding yet to come...
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Intakes finished, however there will be some more paintwork on turbine...
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Base paint.
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Base paint.
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Nev color. Switched to Hataka.
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Preparing for the cammo.
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Some camo from above...
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While contemplating paintwork, workin on the ordnance...
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Upper side camo mostly done.
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Lower side in progress.
Commentaires
11 2 September 2018, 21:37
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Nice pick of a subject.
I had no major fit problems on the II Plus. If I had to do it again I'd thin down the intake near the open inlet doors though, because these don't look too good once built. I would open the airbrake as well.
5 September 2018, 08:46
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Ooh. Photo 27. Nice tip, adding the thin bits in the movable exhaust ports. I think I will be doing that to my 1:48 Kinetic FRS1 Sea Harrier kit.
13 April 2020, 16:09
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Treehugger, it surely gives that something to the kit. Especially when there is flat panel as Hasegawa does that.
13 April 2020, 19:27
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How did you go from black instrument panel to all the knobs and switches painted? With your white pencil?
27 May 2020, 17:35
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Dave, dials are Mike Grant decals and all other is painted with the fine brush.
27 May 2020, 20:19
Album info
MDD AV-8B HArrier II "Venom", Shank 01, Bu.No. 163662, VMA-231 "The Ace of Spades"
Lt Col W. R. "Rusty" Jones
King Abdul Aziz Naval Base, Saudi Arabia, January 1991