Mr. Pocketwatch

Cool hood ornament! That's pimpin!

Hey, nice work so far! The way you've done the cockpit interior is cool! I'm making the same model, I did mine in a rare grey Falklands War scheme though. You can check it out here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...=68569&st=0 Because none of the parts would fit together, it wee weed me off so much that it even had an epic near-death situation! It's almost finished now so soon (hopefully if I get the time) I'll update it. Good luck with yours gunpowder17, you'll need it!

You don't have to rely on aftermarket. You can pimp-out the kit seat yourself! Here's a link to a method that I came up with to pull it off: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...t=0#entry594621

Thanks for the support you guys, I like your sea harriers! I think during the falklands war they were better than than the GR3s because they actually had radars and the pilot had more visibility. Anyway I got some more work done on the airfux project. I'm gonna do one side of the tail with the lightning bolt... ...and the other in the normal scheme I painted each half of the tail individually before gluing them together. After spraying it with a gloss coat, I weathered it with water, some black acrylic paint, and a bit of dish washing liquid. Wiped off the excess with a damp cloth when it was dry. Makes it look a lot more realistic! Started applying the decals Because the grey scheme markings are twice as small as the regular ones, I'm using some left-over decals from the 1/48 harrier GR3 that I used to have. I also finished painting the custom ejection seat, and it looks nice! The project is going faster now that I'm finished with the assembly and painting.

Opened intake doors. Painted it. This thing is so boring! I feel like I'm wasting my time whenever I work on it, and I don't think I have the patience for it anymore. Bin man comes tomorrow.

That's must be why the kit includes a display stand...which didn't work when I tried t!

Progress: I'm trying to rush through this because it's the most boring thing I've ever made but I want to finish it! Ready for paint. Found this awsome color scheme from the 1/48 version which I'm considering, event though I don't have all the right decals. Googled it and only found one picture of it at some airshow.

Thanks! LOL I'll have to remove the dead batteries in the front and replace them with something the same weight before they start leaking to weight it down!

Thanks for the comment! Yeah I wasn't sure if that was right, but the hinges on the kit are at the bottom. I'm not bothered about it!

I'm making an airfix 1/24 harrier GR3 and seen the following weapons layout on another harrier model I like the look of, but it isn't an option in the instructions of mine. Is this a good layout for a falklands war harrier? centerline- free fall bomb inner wing- paired rocket pods outer wing- sidewinders I also an airfix picture of a harrier with 1 drop tank on the center pylon, which I also like the look of.

OK, thank you all for the very detailed advice, I think I'll paint them in green! Probably should of mentioned I'm not a smiling cat so intersetred in every detail that I actually count the rivets because I have way too much free time to spend on an toy made of plastic which is 24X smaller than what I believe it to actually be!

I'm making an Airfix 1/24 Harrier GR3 in RAF scheme. The paint guides for both this and the 1/48 version show only a side view of the gun pods as completely green, while the rest of the aircraft is grey/green camo. I've searched it on google images, but the only pictures of the harriers show them without the guns on display at some museum. Does anyone know if they should be just green or grey and green?

Thanks for the advice., that's pretty much what I'm going to do- fill the gap with glue without gluing the part to the wings.

My uncle is pretty obsessed with the hobby too (well, sort of). He makes racing bikes and dragons though. His awesome modeling attic is one of the things that made me realize just how seriously some people take the hobby! btw that's a nice harrier, bet that took you a while to make!

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