1/48 Harrier Improvements - Intakes & Fan - Kinetic, Hasegawa/Hobby 2000/Revell

[wellsprop]

Hi all,

 

Here's my latest 3D printed kit update, this time for the Kinetic 1/48 Sea Harrier FRS1 and FA2 (they may also fit the Harrier Gr1/3 and T-Harriers).

 

The update consists of two parts, including the prominent fan and then a representation of the compressor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As can be seen, there is an enormous improvement with these parts, when compared with the original kit part!

 

Kinetic intake fan, selling for £6 plus £2.50 postage.

 

See also, upgrade for the Hasegawa kit (will also fit kits that use the Hasegawa plastic - Revell & Hobby 2000). 3D printed upgrade featuring a two-piece fan. 

 

 

Hasegawa intake fan, now selling for £8 plus £2.50 postage.

 

Cheers!

Ben

[grubber]

Hi,

 

Possible to scale up to 1/32 for trumpeters abortion?

[wellsprop]

1 hour ago, grubber said:

Hi,

 

Possible to scale up to 1/32 for trumpeters abortion?

 

Unfortunately not - the Trumpeter kit has the fan built into the ducts, it'd require a completely new design.

[wellsprop]

Hasegawa intakes/fan CAD rendering now added!

 

Soon to be available for purchase.

[Calum]

8 hours ago, wellsprop said:

Hasegawa intakes/fan now added!

Any images?  And where can we purchase?

[wellsprop]

6 hours ago, Calum said:

Any images?  And where can we purchase?

 

One CAD rendering is at the bottom of my first post

 

Available very soon once I have verified the test prints fit correctly!

[grubber]

Tempting for a few, but do post overseas?

[wellsprop]

2 hours ago, grubber said:

Tempting for a few, but do post overseas?

 

I do indeed, just updated the ebay listing to include worldwide postage (£4).

[wellsprop]

Kinetic Harrier intake replacement complete, soo to be available

 

 

 

[Ali62]

Looks great Ben, what’s the reason for the replacement intakes, just curious as to what is wrong with the kit parts

[wellsprop]

11 minutes ago, Ali62 said:

Looks great Ben, what’s the reason for the replacement intakes, just curious as to what is wrong with the kit parts

 

Thanks Ali 😊

 

The kit part is pretty crude, the most challenging aspect is the actual openings aren't parallel and the aft edges are rounded, lots of modellers have corrected this with plasticard. 

 

 

The 3D printed replacements are more detailed and crisper. 

[Ali62]

Thanks for the explanation Ben, looks like I will need to get some of these bits and bobs from you

[wellsprop]

4 hours ago, Pajarito said:

Hi Ben,

So sorry to be such a nag but, is there any news regarding these here bits for the Kinetic Harrier kits?

The link to eBay is a no-go.

Cheers,

 

Igna

 

That's strange, I'll look into it!

 

The intake design is now finalised and I'll put it on ebay this weekend

[wellsprop]

On 16/12/2023 at 22:21, Pajarito said:

 Yes, I'm still here, Ben.

 

Printing right now! 😁

 

[wellsprop]

On 27/12/2023 at 16:40, Pajarito said:

<--- How about now? 😁

 

Patience, dear boy

 

Fans are printed, intakes are printing (I've ben away over Christmas!). If the prints were properly (now that I've improved the supports), these will be ready to post in the next couple days 

[wellsprop]

Harrier intake fan for Hasegawa / Hobby2000 kits complete

 

 

 

Now selling on ebay for £8 plus £2.50 postage.

[colingolds]

On 6/18/2023 at 11:50 AM, wellsprop said:

Hi all,

 

Here's my latest 3D printed kit update, this time for the Kinetic 1/48 Sea Harrier FRS1 and FA2 (they may also fit the Harrier Gr1/3 and T-Harriers).

 

The update consists of two parts, including the prominent fan and then a representation of the compressor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As can be seen, there is an enormous improvement with these parts, when compared with the original kit part!

 

Kinetic intake fan, selling for £6 plus £2.50 postage.

 

See also, upgrade for the Hasegawa kit (will also fit kits that use the Hasegawa plastic - Revell & Hobby 2000). 3D printed upgrade featuring a two-piece fan. 

 

 

Hasegawa intake fan, now selling for £8 plus £2.50 postage.

 

Cheers!

Ben

Is it possible to scale these up for the 1/24 airfix kit please ?

[wellsprop]

3 hours ago, colingolds said:

Is it possible to scale these up for the 1/24 airfix kit please ?

 

In theory, yes, but everything has to be customised for a specific kit. Unfortunately I don't have the 1/24 kit, I doubt I'd get enough sales to justify buying the kit, therefore I have no plans to do this in 1/24 im afraid 😕

[JeffreyK]

On 7/28/2023 at 3:36 AM, wellsprop said:

Kinetic Harrier intake replacement complete, soo to be available

 

 

 

Nice!  It does your part correct the overly thick leading edge of the kit parts? Difficult to see without context. That was the main, and hard to correct flaw of them in my opinion.

J

[coneheadff]

Hi Ben,

 

Unfortunately I can't find your eBay shop 😕 

I found the A-4 intakes via the link on your FB account. But searching your name or your stuff showed nothing available!?!?

[wellsprop]

3 hours ago, coneheadff said:

Hi Ben,

 

Unfortunately I can't find your eBay shop 😕 

I found the A-4 intakes via the link on your FB account. But searching your name or your stuff showed nothing available!?!?

 

Oops I accidentally paused sales whilst on holiday. I'm back now and I've restarted the sales, it all should be visible. 

[wellsprop]

14 hours ago, JeffreyK said:

Nice!  It does your part correct the overly thick leading edge of the kit parts? Difficult to see without context. That was the main, and hard to correct flaw of them in my opinion.

J

 

The intake is slightly sharper than the kit part, but it wasn't my main intention when designing the 3D printed replacements. To be honest, I didn't quite spot that! 

 

See my build photos below:

 

 

[coneheadff]

How about a complete new intake for the Hasegawa Harrier? For absolutely no reason they left ugly gaps where the intake trunk meets the fwd fuselage. 

Of course it's possible to fill those gaps, but that would mean that the painting of the intakes have to be done afterwards...which takes away the advantage of painting your fan and the intake in advance.

 

Alex

[JeffreyK]

12 hours ago, wellsprop said:

 

The intake is slightly sharper than the kit part, but it wasn't my main intention when designing the 3D printed replacements. To be honest, I didn't quite spot that! 

 

See my build photos below:

 

 

Very nice build!!

I tihnk the leading edge will need a little more thinning but the whole intake does look much better than the kit parts!!

While I like that Kinetic have taken on the Harrier (I have he FRS.2 and GR.3 on the shelf  ) they could have paid more attention to the shape... The whole fuselage is overly fat in the mid section...

but still, on the whole, better than previous kits.

Temma-san in Japan is really going to town with scratching up the "ultimate" correct Sea Harrier from all sorts of parts (Monogram, Tamiya...). His verdict of the Kinetic parts was kind of devestating LOL :)))  https://soyuyo.main.jp/seaharrier/seaharrier-1.html

 

J

[wellsprop]

17 hours ago, coneheadff said:

How about a complete new intake for the Hasegawa Harrier? For absolutely no reason they left ugly gaps where the intake trunk meets the fwd fuselage. 

Of course it's possible to fill those gaps, but that would mean that the painting of the intakes have to be done afterwards...which takes away the advantage of painting your fan and the intake in advance.

 

Alex

 

I'm soon to start the Hasegawa GR kit, I may decide to make an upgrade! 

 

4 hours ago, JeffreyK said:

Very nice build!!

I tihnk the leading edge will need a little more thinning but the whole intake does look much better than the kit parts!!

While I like that Kinetic have taken on the Harrier (I have he FRS.2 and GR.3 on the shelf  ) they could have paid more attention to the shape... The whole fuselage is overly fat in the mid section...

but still, on the whole, better than previous kits.

Temma-san in Japan is really going to town with scratching up the "ultimate" correct Sea Harrier from all sorts of parts (Monogram, Tamiya...). His verdict of the Kinetic parts was kind of devestating LOL :)))  https://soyuyo.main.jp/seaharrier/seaharrier-1.html

 

J

 

I saw that! The radome on the Kinetic FA2 is also too short and the wrong profile....

 

Unfortunately, I'm not an expert builder, unlike Temma-san and I'm not brave enough to take on that kind of kit improvement!