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Hello again Brit Modellers, This is my latest, the Airfix 1/72 GR.1 of 3 squadron RAF Germany, 1970 or thereabouts, ready to give Ivan a good thrashing if he tries anything. All straight out of the box painted with Airfix enamels (just before mine went to the consistency of window putty... sure they used to last longer on the shelf...). Underside was specified as 166, which looks too brown, so I mixed my own using camouflage grey 28, with some grey 77 and white added. Looks right to me anyway. The only mods I did were some filing down of the ejector seat head box and some straps from masking tape painted dark green and dark earth. The kit itself is good but maybe on the over-engineered side as seems to be fashionable nowadays - I had trouble getting some parts to fit properly, maybe that's just me. I dunno about these Airfix "starter sets", if I was starting modelling, or I was a dad in the "dad and kid" demographic, I wouldn't start with a complex kit with tiny parts and exacting tolerances like this! I do appreciate a "cut down" decal sheet though, I don't want to spend a week applying 500 stencils you can only see with a magnifier. Heresy I know. Well there it is, menacing in a British sort of way, a nice Harrier for much less than a tenner... This is probably going to be my last model aircraft, at least for a while - I have too many other odd interests and projects, plus I am starting to get irked by the mess created by just building one small model - it took most of this afternoon to clean up! Your mileage my differ...
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Kit manufacture: Airfix (club boxing with Harrier FA.2) Scale: 1/72 Type: Harrier GR.7 Extras used: Tape seat belts, not that you can see them. Paints and colours used: Tamiya Dark Sea Grey (on top), Xtracrylix Dark Camo Grey (underside), Tamiya mainly elsewhere, Citadel Silver and Gunmetal for the metal bits! Weathered with Flory Dark Dirt, Glossed with Alclad and Matte coats were with Xtracrylix. The build is mentioned here, in very little detail: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234964266-airfix-148-seafire-fxvii-plus-special-guests/#entry1684720 So this is a Harrier Gr.7 scratch built out of milliput, Vallejo filler and Tamiya putty. I filled the gaps between the fillers with the Airfix Harrier Gr.7 kit (old tool). This is one of the first models I started when I got back into the hobby 2-3 years ago, and has only now been finished. As it was the old tool, I decided I'd use it as a practice kit (filling, sanding, weather etc), but encountered so many problems, it frequently got placed on the shelf of doom... In truth, the fit was actually pretty good over all, but where it didn't fit, it was a nightmare (air intake, wing roots underneath), particularly the canopy with was too wide. I must commend Airfix though, I broke the first canopy trying to squeeze it onto the model; they sent me a replacement FOC in the post within 2 days. Top work that. I left some missiles off, basically the weapons were an additional item to the original tool of this aircraft (I guess) and as a result did not fit on any of the pylons. The weapons that are on there I drilled out and fitted with a tiny copper rod, but I lost interest by the time I got to the missiles.... So, here she is, tips and constructive criticism greatly appreciated. I think the one thing I did learn from this practice kit was that if there is a nice, new tooled, highly praised kit (Airfix, Revell/Has) for just a couple of quid more, don't bother with the old one! But I'm fairly pleased with the end result. Many thanks, Val
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