Airfix Sea Harrier FA2

I didn’t get any pics of the kit going together as it was a very straight forward build. This is the first pic I got, having just primed the kit with black One Shot 

Pre-shading carried out with straight Tamiya white 

Top coat of Hataka Medium Sea Grey 

Masking up the tail for some black detail 

Radome has been painted Hataka Extra Dark Sea Grey. Stores and pylons starting to be painted.

 

Gloss coat of Tamiya X22 and Mr Color Leveling Thinner applied 

 

Gear doors have been modelled shut. I’m not convinced about the shape and positioning of the gun pods, but hey ho 

Decals starting to go on. They’re very nicely printed and hunker down in to the panel lines very nicely 

 

 

I got aftermarket resin nozzles as the kit nozzles were in two parts each, with the seam running down the middle. It would have been a pain to get rid of the seems, so after market it was! 

The nozzles and heat shields were primed in black, followed by a top coat of Vallejo silver 

They then got lots of weathering with Revell powders. I made sure the forward nozzles had more of a patina than the aft ones, which get hotter 

 

 

 

The nozzles fitted to the kit. They were such a tight fit I didn’t actually glue them in place 

Stabilisers on and starting to apply a matte coat of Tamiya XF86  

 

All done! I finished the kit off with a pair of Sidewinder acquisition rounds I made by removing the fins from two of the kits Sidewinders 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The nose profile ended up not too bad. I used an aftermarket resin radome, but the problem is more that the section between the canopy and the radome is too slim. I enlarged this area slightly using Miliput and that made a great difference to the overall shape