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J35J
Great Looking SHAR! 👍🏻

Sergio Ordonez
Thank you so much, mate. I Hope It will be the first of many. I want to recreate all the Shar innthe HMS Hermes, as well as the GR.3.

Cuajete
Fantastic job, Sergio.
Enhorabuena!

Sergio Ordonez
Thank you so much, Cuajete. Just out of the box and a Hasegawa old model that is still astounding. Let me see what Will happen with the Airfix FA.2.
Gracias ,amigo!

Mr D
Well done Sergio 😁👍👍
Look's great👌
Interesting aircraft to build, l did the Tamiya one few months back and enjoyed doing it.
Make a great display piece,
Enjoy 👍

Sergio Ordonez
Thank you, Mr D. Japanese kits for SHARS are very accurate in my experience. Both Fujimi and Hasegawa, even being old kits will be the backbone of my future Harrier wing. Now I am working on Airfix SHAR FA.2 and I found the assembly better (in some points) but with some features (as canopy and cockpit assembly) worse that older kits. Italeri ones seem better than Airfix, but I think some details are missing.
Tamiya is a 1:48 nice model I only saw once in my life (a 'rara avis' in m local shops) but, apart from the fact that has the usual Tamiya high quality standard, seems to be a kit for the experienced modeler.
Yours looks awesome.

J35J
Great to follow your SHAR builds Sergio! Really inspiring👍🏻
Friendly advice on the Tamiya 1:48 SHAR kit. This kit is not even close to the usual Tam standard & quality we all are used to. It is a really poor kit.
I didn't do my homework, bought the kit & was badly suprised by the quality. I took the approach to build the model to improve my modeling skills. Put in some scrachwork and a lot of aftermarket stuff to get it to a decent level.
Sea Harrier FRS.1 | Album by J35J (1:48)

Mr D
Thanks Sergio 😃👍
As J35 said the Tamiya kit has it's short falls and requires extra work it doesn't have the side air intakes on the engine inlets.
It was a gift l was given so l built it best l could.
Like the Museum SHAR photo..... Good one for reference 👍

Sergio Ordonez
No exactly the same at FAA Museum: the SHAR at the Museum is XZ493, that has been always a FRS.1, while my model is the XZ495, that underwent reconstruction in the 90s to become a FA.2., being tranferred to 899 NAS. Now, as far a I know, XZ495 is under restoration to become a Museum piece.

gorby
Excellent painting!

Stefan Schacht
very nice so far, I take a seat.

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, this is very inspirational 👍

Cuajete
Looks really nice! 👍

Guy Rump
Impressive painting 🙂

Mirko Römer
This paintwork is really awesome - it's a painting! 🙂

Vytautas
Top-notch work!

Neuling
Looks very good indeed. More pictures of the finished model would be nice!

Łukasz Gliński
These daylight pics show the shading even better 👍 Nice base btw, the grass looks very realistic, where did you find it?

Stijn Croo
Well Lukasz the grass is a big mat of the brand mininatur.de that you can cut to size.
I just used a old photoframe and whipped that up in about 15 min, sprayed it a bit over with some vallejo cam light green
It isn't a permanent base, but good enough for taken pictures

Christian Lehmann
👍

Bernd Grün
Outstanding model and awesome paint job. Cheers

Paweł W.
Excellent work! Congratulations!

Neuling
👍

Guy Rump
Great build 👍

Matthias
Excellent build! 👍

Alberto
Really nice paint job

Andy Ball
Great build! Did you use Tamiya smoke for the pre=shade?, I've always thought 'smoke' is a good way of adding variation to paint.

Stijn Croo
Andy Ball it was clear smoke of AK interactive to blend it all together

Sergej I
Following 👍

bruno egral
C'est ma 1ere 'big five' : un kit que je voulais faire depuis 20 ans !

Spanjaard
i managed to get my hand in another boxing of the same kit... also wanting to have it for more than 20 years, really curious about what it can be done with it 🙂

nikfrost
Very jealous, looking forward to the build

Spanjaard
it is still possible to get the kit but it certainly is getting more and more expensive....

Stéphane Jayet
Kit difficile à trouver, j'espère la monter un jour.... Bon montage

Spanjaard
not difficult to find....difficult to pay, maybe 😉 there are 3 for sale, here in SCM, for example. Prices go from 70USD to 99EUR (+Shipping, I assume)
and there is one kit of the other boxing also for 70USD

Spanjaard
I got one for a good friend, but I was really lucky to find it locally and for a very good price.

Martin Oostrom
I know that friend!
Definitely watching this one. It seems Bruno and I share the same taste for cars 😁

bruno egral
C'est un miracle : je cherchais sans y croire ce kit sur un grand site marchand bien connu. Mais il était très cher et au Japon ou aux Usa. Et un jour j'en trouve un à un prix raisonnable (80 euros tout de même) en France. J'ai foncé et tout c'est très bien passé : kit et décals en parfait état, juste la boîte un peu passé. Et le vendeur super sympa en plus. J'étais ravi.

bruno egral
Et toutes les pièces étaient sur leur grappe dans leur sachet plastique scellé. Sur la photo j'ai déjà commencé le kit : bain, séchage et début du dégrappage.

Spanjaard
yes, I paid very similar for mine....I thought, it will only increase, so it is now or never, I was in love with it when I was looking at the tamiya catalogue back in the 90's..... never expected to eventually getting another even cheaper! now, let's concentrate in the beauty you are going to build 🙂

shadowlight
As long as the decals are complete - please don't forget to make a scan of them

Robert Podkoński
Cool stuff!

Tino Löffler
Definitely! :-D

Meister
Very nice 🙂

Tino Löffler
Danke Meister. 🙂

bughunter
Not only sweet, but you was also able to bring all those specifics of an Albatros into the egg 👍

Tino Löffler
Thanks bughunter, that was my wish, and I'm glad it worked out. 🙂

Marcel Klemmer
Very cool👍

Tino Löffler
Danke Marcel. 🙂

bughunter
Your engine seems to be bigger!

Tino Löffler
With her curves, she needs a bigger engine 😉

Nathan Dempsey
This is an awesome flying egg. 👍🏼👍🏼

Tino Löffler
Thanks Nathan 🙂

David Taylor
Brilliant.

Tino Löffler
Thanks David. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Awesome job!

Tino Löffler
Thanks Robert. 🙂

Neil
I agree 💯 with all the above. Really brilliant work, the finish is amazing 👍 and it's super 🥰 too!

gorby
I love this! Fantastic work.

J35J
Wow! Looks great👍🏻

Mark Sherwood
That's not only funny, but amazing too. 🤘🥸🤟

Mr D
Brilliant....all the good stuff in a small package.
Done a really smart job 👌👍

S M
Nice clea building! Could you tell what is the purpose of that aluminium foil?

Maciej Bellos
Thank you for all the likes gentlemen!

S B, the aluminum foil was used to protect the underlying plastic from the sprue goo I used so as the sniper pylon fits better to the fuselage. All Sniper pylons I have are either for the Eagle or the Viper so one had to be modified to fit.

I will sort the photos and add some comments too.

S M
Thanks for the tip! 🙂

Sergej I
Nice progress, following 👍