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Thanks Mish!

There is one in1/24 in theScience Museum in London but it's a bit basic. I used photos of it to get my head around the structure.

Once i started "growing" it with 0.8mm brass wire the structure explaned itself.

Don't you love the way the two engines act through the same centre??!!

Jez

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Cracking model. There's also one in the FAA Museum in Yeovilton sitting on a turntable.

Ive managed to get a couple of Nenes from Mig 15 kits but other than drawings pics and the Nenes Ive got it all to do. Hope it comes out as well as yours!

Colin

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Awesome build!!!!

for inspiration a pic my grandfather took at Farnborough in what we think was 1960....

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:D

Now residing on display at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum in Crawfordsburn,just outside Bangor.

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Good luck - let me know if I can help. There's plenty of stuff on the net.

I'm sure yours will be crisper than mine!

I'm plucking up the courage to do a tiny 1/72 one!

I do plan to do the whole Harrier story in 1/48, though....

(All talk!).

Jez.

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If you made some plans or have a parts breakdown then I'd much appreciate them to get me going. The only plan I have is one I down loaded and its a bit too low resolution so I took a heap of pictures of the one in the science museum to help but you could save me a heap of time.

Thanks

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I got everything from the net as far as I remember. The chaps at FAST at Farnborough sent me some additional press photos but I had no close-ups of the cockpit so mine is an educated guess!

The only plan was from a simplified line drawing in a press report on the net

The fun was in working out the structure from the various photographic angles and the inevitable scaling.

I think the absolute scaling came from Aires' engine at 1:48 so my TMR might not even be the right size!!

I now have (conflicting!!) three-views of the Short SC.1 which I regard as the next step in the Harrier story and, as it lends itself to being at least partly clear vacformings, perhaps I should release a kit....

A sad time for Harrier fans....

Who's got drawings of the P11/27 prototypes and Kestrel???

All the best.

JK

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Bit too small in 1:72.

THE scale but even the full-blown Harrier's a tiddler at 1" to 6'...!

I've got two Revell 1:32 GR1 s... What shall I do with them....?

I NEED a 1:24 GR9 - as a memorial - must I carve one out of solid wood and resin???

Let's lobby Trevor Snowdon for the next big Airfix rleas!!!

LR 101

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