pacificmustang Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 G’day All Im currently in the final throes of Kinetics SEA harrier FRS1, to be completed as a Falklands jet. Mention is made in several references of yellow wingtip stripes, but I can find no photos or mention anywhere of placement or size of these stripes can anyone help out ? cheers Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selwyn Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 4 hours ago, pacificmustang said: G’day All Im currently in the final throes of Kinetics SEA harrier FRS1, to be completed as a Falklands jet. Mention is made in several references of yellow wingtip stripes, but I can find no photos or mention anywhere of placement or size of these stripes can anyone help out ? cheers Bruce Only yellow stripes were on Argentine aircraft IIRC. Selwyn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 I’ve not seen or heard of yellow stripes in Sea Harriers then As Selwyn says they have been on Argentinian aircraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Not something ive heard of or seen....that would have got very confusing 🤔 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloegin57 Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 13 hours ago, pacificmustang said: G’day All Im currently in the final throes of Kinetics SEA harrier FRS1, to be completed as a Falklands jet. Mention is made in several references of yellow wingtip stripes, but I can find no photos or mention anywhere of placement or size of these stripes can anyone help out ? cheers Bruce They are referring to the small stripes at the front of the mainplane RCV access panels. In the kit I believe that they are orange though I have not checked mine yet, : - Also on quite a few GR.3's :- Above images courtesy Phil Boyden (top) and Harrier SIG. HTH Dennis 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG899 Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Spot on Dennis! Good to hear from you after so long! Not all Falklands FRS1s or GR3s had them and some FRS1s only had them on one side due to overpainting. Bruce, which airframe are you making your model as? Let me know and I’ll tell you if you need to have them on it. Cheers Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacificmustang Posted September 13, 2021 Author Share Posted September 13, 2021 (edited) G’day Dennis and Nick thankyou for the excellent photos and a definitive answer. I had in my mind they were a chord wide stripe, which wouldn’t have made sense, because as Selwyn says, the Argie aircraft had them . Nick , I’m away from home at the moment so can’t remember off the top of my head, but it is an overall EDSG jet with MSG replacement rudder and port front nozzle. It had the sidewinder adapters painted blue I am using the extradecal 25th anniversary sheet. There is an excellent instruction sheet in it written by yourself calling out that this jet had the stripes, I’m assuming both wings? I intend to load it with tanks, 2 x sidewinders and a bomb on the centre pylon, although if you know of any other load outs this jet used that are not the norm, I’d do that if I thought it more interesting Thanks Chaps Bruce Edited September 13, 2021 by pacificmustang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 trestle Marking for when the wing off during ecu change ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG899 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Which serial are you doing Bruce? Once I know that I can answer your question! Cheers Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacificmustang Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 XZ496 Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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