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I've just started on this build to complement my 1/48 Argentine Canberra B62 B-110 based on the Airfix kit (still to be finished). I intend this build to represent B-110s nemesis, SHAR XZ451 more or less straight out of the box, just like the Canberra. I've started with the ordinance. I'm not sure exactly what loadout XZ451 would have been carrying when it shot down B-110 on the 1st May 1982, but twin AIM-9Ls are for sure. The kit AIM-9Ls look to be acceptable with careful detailing and painting. The kit has a single bomb, which looks very much like a BL755 cluster bomb to me, although the kit box text claims it is a MK17? I think I read on another post that SHARs very often carried a bomb when they took off on CAP during Corporate, which they tossed in the direction of Stanley airport before taking up their patrol. Not sure if these would have been BL755s though? Might switch it for an iron bomb. I'm assuming the larger drop tanks in the kit are ferry tanks, but there is an official IWM pic of XZ banking away from another SHAR taken during Corporate where it is carrying the larger tanks and a single AIM-9L on the starboard outer rail. I'll probably fit the smaller tanks because I can't believe the larger tanks would have been carried on a combat mission? The kit parts have some mis-moulds and what look like errors to me? One of the turbulators on the upper starboard wing surface had broken off in my kit. It looks to me as if it broke off when being removed from the mould as there is also a blemish on the port upper wing surface that's a similar size and shape to the turbulator and it could have ended up being pressed into the plastic here. However, it was a simple job to replace the missing turbulator with one from the FA2 wing also included in the kit and fill the blemish. The moulding errors required a bit more work. There's a flat region on the inner surface of the lower wing parts that has to be pared away to thin the leading edges at the tips where they meet the outrigger sponsons. The lower wing tips also need some reshaping to fit neatly against the sponsons. Before on left. After on right. I've been unable to find any close up high res images of the underside of the leading edge dogtooth on the real thing, but a colour photo in a 1981 Air International article appears to show that the stepped underside on the kinetic parts wasn't actually present, plus the kinetic layout doesn't make much aerodynamic sense to me, so I've filled the slight underside step in on both wings. You can also see the ailerons in this pic, which also needed some work done on their very thin mis-moulded trailing edges. They suffered from insufficient plastic injection and had wavy trailing edges which I've corrected with Mr Surfacer. More soon.....

G’day all. I have a question for the Harrier experts out there. As the tittle says I am currently working on the kinetic T Harrier kit and I intend to make a T.8 in the black scheme. My question is wether this aircraft had a digital cockpit from the beginning or was it something that was added later on. The kit instructions only specify an analog cockpit but it being a kinetic kit you can’t always trust the instructions. I’ve alread closed the fuselage halves so if I have to add the digital cockpit parts I am going to have to do some surgery on the kit. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.