Kinetic 1/48 Sea Harrier FA.2

[TommyKillander]

Thats an impressive result - well done!!!

Looking really good here Tommy!

Thanks !

Ok... I better pull my stuff together and produce some output with this kit... nearly 50 % of the time is up and I'm stuck on Page 2 in the assembly instructions...

Let's build the second air intake


I'm using Tamiya White Putty dissolved in Laquer Thinner to fill the gaps...

A bit time-consuming since it shrinks a lot, but I can't use Sprue Goo

Almost done...


I got a bit bored with all the sanding so I started to put primer the white parts






I got the doors left to do, but they are a different colour so I will add them later on, because I want to paint them in the same colour as the fuselage and I haven't made up my mind if I should use the Gunze Aqueous paints or Mr Paint...


Tommy

[TommyKillander]

Ok... I'm chuggin' on with the submodules for the interior.... I'm very eager to close up the fuselage and push on with the rest of the build... There are a lot of work left to do

Got some white X-2 and a GX-100 gloss coat on the white parts








Gluing stuff together.... will it fit ?


After that I added some PE on the sidewalls and also did some random detailing. I was looking at ref pics of the cockpit and it is incredibly busy. One thing that I added from the pictures was a strip of plasticard under each side of the IP cover, to add the row of red and orange warning lights.


Painted with Gunze H308, same colour as the rest of the interior


Next step will be to add all the small painted PE to the sidewalls


Tommy

[Meliodas2019]

keep going Tommy its looking amazing as excited as you to see it once closed up

[BennetHeirwegh]

Very nice build Tommy. Keep on going.

[digger303]

Your eye for detail and patience plus skill is producing a very fine result. The gloss finish on the engine intakes being stand out for me. How did you get that look ?

[bfrd]

I still can't decide if you inspire me or make me question what I am doing. I have such a great amount of respect for your attention to detail and using all of the tools at your disposal to make the best model possible. Simply outstanding work!

bra jobb, min vän

google translate...

[TommyKillander]

keep going Tommy its looking amazing as excited as you to see it once closed up

Very nice build Tommy. Keep on going.

Thanks Meliodas2019 and BennetHeirwegh

Your eye for detail and patience plus skill is producing a very fine result. The gloss finish on the engine intakes being stand out for me. How did you get that look ?

Thanks digger303!
I took used this procedure; clean the surface with alcohol, spray heated (warm) Ultimate white primer in 4-5 very thin layers, let it dry overnight, sand back any dust or uneven spots of paint, spray Tamiya X-2 diluted with MLT, let it dry overnight, spray a couple of coats of GX-100 thinned with MLT.

I still can't decide if you inspire me or make me question what I am doing. I have such a great amount of respect for your attention to detail and using all of the tools at your disposal to make the best model possible. Simply outstanding work!

bra jobb, min vän

google translate...

Thank you vey much, Matthew!

I hope that I inspire...
The best thing with this hobby is that there are always new things to learn and there so much great stuff to be inspired by out on the Interwebs...
PS. "Be inspired by" is another word for Stealing!


Ok... it's time to paint those red and orange warning lights I mentioned earlier and add more PE to the sidepanels


There is a small glass window on the right side of the nose section - I better glue it in so I don't forget it when I close up the fuselage


This kit has a system of levers and rods to provide poseable aand synchronised exhaust nozzles, but that looks way too complicated for my need, so I decided to glue them in VTOL position.








Weathering of the sidewalls


And we can finally start to glue in stuff into the fuselage


There will probably be a lot of stress on the internal parts when I put this bird together, so I reinforce the gluespots with some liquid sprue. Last thing I want to happen is that parts snap loose when I start applying force on this thing


...slowly moving forward


Tommy

[digger303]

I took used this procedure; clean the surface with alcohol, spray heated (warm) Ultimate white primer in 4-5 very thin layers, let it dry overnight, sand back any dust or uneven spots of paint, spray Tamiya X-2 diluted with MLT, let it dry overnight, spray a couple of coats of GX-100 thinned with MLT.

Thanks Tommy

[TommyKillander]

I took used this procedure; clean the surface with alcohol, spray heated (warm) Ultimate white primer in 4-5 very thin layers, let it dry overnight, sand back any dust or uneven spots of paint, spray Tamiya X-2 diluted with MLT, let it dry overnight, spray a couple of coats of GX-100 thinned with MLT.

Thanks Tommy

Yeah, I forgot to mention that the X-2 should also be sprayed in thin layers, but not too thin because if the paint hits too dry it will cause orange peel and if the layers are too thick they will pool - it's a bit tricky to get it right so practice on a paint-mule until you you feel comfortable to throw paint on your model

Good luck, hope this helps you


Tommy

[digger303]

I took used this procedure; clean the surface with alcohol, spray heated (warm) Ultimate white primer in 4-5 very thin layers, let it dry overnight, sand back any dust or uneven spots of paint, spray Tamiya X-2 diluted with MLT, let it dry overnight, spray a couple of coats of GX-100 thinned with MLT.

Thanks Tommy

Yeah, I forgot to mention that the X-2 should also be sprayed in thin layers, but not too thin because if the paint hits too dry it will cause orange peel and if the layers are too thick they will pool - it's a bit tricky to get it right so practice on a paint-mule until you you feel comfortable to throw paint on your model

Good luck, hope this helps you


Tommy

Very helpful thanks Tommy. I actually do use the X-2 mix. Never used the GX-100 before though or the Ulitmate Primer yet. I generally use the Mr Surfacer.
Washing down with Alcohol is only something I have just started to do. I was finding in this warm climate I was getting a awful lot of finger print oil problems no matter how much I washed my hands. Doesn't seem to be a problem in winter. I been using those hand wipes for the job. One seems to be enough to do the whole kit.

[TommyKillander]

Hey Guys!

I got some more done on the SHAR...

Glued in the main wheel well and the airbrake compartment


Added some Liquid Sprue here as well


Cleanup of the area behind the ejection seat. I'm using 0.13 mm plasticard to hide those hideous ejection pin marks





Tommy

[Meliodas2019]

Hey Guys!

I got some more done on the SHAR...

Glued in the main wheel well and the airbrake compartment


Added some Liquid Sprue here as well


Cleanup of the area behind the ejection seat. I'm using 0.13 mm plasticard to hide those hideous ejection pin marks





Tommy

thats a great idea/tip I will use it when i get more advances and build some of my more details models
keep the good work going excited to see it closed

[Twokidsnosleep]

Tommy, your liquid sprue looks like the devil's sewer water!
You must be of pure blood and use white Tamiya sprue...for purity and evangelical holiness
Much like me

[digger303]

Tommy, your liquid sprue looks like the devil's sewer water!
You must be of pure blood and use white Tamiya sprue...for purity and evangelical holiness
Much like me

Ohhh seems I'm impure as well......damn sure I'll never reach that lofty goal of purity and evangelical holiness...
My sprue is tainted......the shock and horror of it all...

[Twokidsnosleep]

Tommy, your liquid sprue looks like the devil's sewer water!
You must be of pure blood and use white Tamiya sprue...for purity and evangelical holiness
Much like me

Ohhh seems I'm impure as well......damn sure I'll never reach that lofty goal of purity and evangelical holiness...
My sprue is tainted......the shock and horror of it all...

You are tainted
Ya well, knock me over with a feather

[TommyKillander]

Tommy, your liquid sprue looks like the devil's sewer water!
You must be of pure blood and use white Tamiya sprue...for purity and evangelical holiness
Much like me

I have some grey Hasegawa sprue too, but it's not the same thing as Sacred White Tamiya... I know, I'm a lost soul


Tommy

[digger303]

Tommy, your liquid sprue looks like the devil's sewer water!
You must be of pure blood and use white Tamiya sprue...for purity and evangelical holiness
Much like me

Ohhh seems I'm impure as well......damn sure I'll never reach that lofty goal of purity and evangelical holiness...
My sprue is tainted......the shock and horror of it all...

You are tainted
Ya well, knock me over with a feather

OY aspersions on my character......fully justified...I need to find the holy grail of model making. White plastic from the Tamiya fountain of life..

[TommyKillander]

Hey Guys!

Let's do some dryfitting!





Not great - not terrible....


This turned out better than expected




The cockpit




I had a bit of a moment here... but it actually looks worse than it is. The holes are for a pair of antennas

...but the fit is really awful here - but I'm getting used to it now

So let's commit to glue...


Some PE on the compartment behind the cockpit




I use a debonder to clean up excess glue around the PE - I wish I had this product years ago...


Despite all the warning-labels I can thorougly recommend this product



Tommy

[Meliodas2019]

that fit is better than I was expecting, looks great minus the few gaps but thats childs play compared to what you have already over come

[digger303]

sorry please delete this nothing post

[digger303]

So let's commit to glue...

Despite all the warning-labels I can thorougly recommend this product



Tommy
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Is that debonder just the same as other brands or something a cut above the rest and what brand is it ?

[TommyKillander]

Is that debonder just the same as other brands or something a cut above the rest and what brand is it ?

It's called Debonder-PS-F by Petr Dousek (same guy that makes Rosie the Riveter tools)
https://www.super-hobby.co.uk/products/ ... -PS-F.html

Unfortunately i couldn't find any shop outside Europe that seems to carry it


Tommy

[digger303]

Is that debonder just the same as other brands or something a cut above the rest and what brand is it ?

It's called Debonder-PS-F by Petr Dousek (same guy that makes Rosie the Riveter tools)
https://www.super-hobby.co.uk/products/ ... -PS-F.html

Unfortunately i couldn't find any shop outside Europe that seems to carry it


Tommy

Thanks

[Hawkmoon]

Starting to come together nicely

[TommyKillander]

Starting to come together nicely

Thanks a lot, Hawkmoon!

I made an attempt to reduce the gap around the cockpit tub a bit with a clamp...


Gluing the main wing together


Dryfitting....




Checking the air intakes... they will need some adjustments, but in general I'm very pleased with them




I cant get rid of the gap on the IP cover, by pressing the fuselage halves together, so I'm checking that the windscreen fits. It looks OK so I will go ahead and fill the gap and sand it.


The exhaust nozzles are made using a sliding cam tooling and the gils are free from seams
But the need some cleanup nevertheless...

[Kevthemodeller]

A few fitting issues there Tommy, I'm sure you'll get them ironed out

[TommyKillander]

A few fitting issues there Tommy, I'm sure you'll get them ironed out

Yeah, fixing the seams and rescribing isn't rocket-science - it's just a bit time consuming. Spent time is directly proportional to the end result

But I have other things to switch between if it gets too tiresome... Like ordnance and the undercarriage


Short update today; I have started to fill the seams on the fuselage.




Topside done, I will continue with the belly tomorrow

And I also started to cleanup the main wing, I'm thinking of attaching the hardpoints early on, I will probably add metalpins to locate the weapons beforehand... One thing I learned from my Viggen build was that it's well spent time to make the final assembly easy.



Tommy

[Meliodas2019]

bit of gap fill is a simple issue to over come tommy given all the amazing work already, cockpit looks incrediable no its together

[SaG]

Going on nicely Tommy. This is turning into (another) great model!

cheers,
Bennet

[TommyKillander]

bit of gap fill is a simple issue to over come tommy given all the amazing work already, cockpit looks incrediable no its together

Thanks Yeah, the rest will be easier I hope

Going on nicely Tommy. This is turning into (another) great model!

cheers,
Bennet

Thanks Bennet, nice to see you here on ISM


Tommy

[TommyKillander]

Ok...

I have put some liquid sprue on the bottom side of the fuselage and left it to cure for a couple of days.


Did some sanding and polishing of the seams on the fuselage top.




Adjusting and dryfitting the main wing section...


Maybe maybe.... It might be enough to clamp it to make it fit


Did some rescribing and riveting - I really hate doing that



Tommy

[TommyKillander]

Long time. no see!
No, I haven't given up; I'm just really busy right now with stuff and things

Okay... I'm continuing the sanding and polishing effort...


Also managed to do some rescribing and reriveting


Putting together the hardpoints:


And I have decided on the loadout; It will be gunpods, fueltanks and AIM120 AMRAAMs







Tommy

[Meliodas2019]

Also managed to do some rescribing and reriveting



Tommy

looking nice Tommy like the work and like the sound of the layout.
am intersted in the "rescribing and reriveting" never come across that...though i am new still, how do you go about that?

[TommyKillander]

Also managed to do some rescribing and reriveting



Tommy

looking nice Tommy like the work and like the sound of the layout.
am intersted in the "rescribing and reriveting" never come across that...though i am new still, how do you go about that?

After filling and sanding sometimes panel-lines and rivets are lost, so you may want to recover them by using a sharp scribing tool or a riveting tool (see below in this post).


Okay... only one month left so it's time to speed up this build so I don't miss the deadline

The SHAR FA.2 where the first aircraft to integrate the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, outside US ofcourse.




But the the Aden 30 mm gunpods are more familiar...


I used CA-glue to fill the gaps around the clear part. After that I sanded and polished it and polish it


Re-scribing some lost panel lines.


Added some plasticard to rear end to hide the seams


Added a piece of 1mm brass tube to detail the gun barrel


The Kinetic kit does not have the gun vent ports, so I made a drill template and added that detail




Next up are the hardpoints under the wings... I will add some photoetch




But something is not right The sway braces should of course be glued in *before* the PE

So let's remove the PE using plastic safe debonder and do it right!






Attachement to the main wing



Tommy

[TommyKillander]

Hey Guys!

The buildning mojo is really low right now, so things go a bit slow.

Adding some weight to the nose cone.


...and I discovered that fitting the exhausts required that I removed a lot of plastic


But I got that sorted after some use of my Proxxon drill and a sprue-cutter


Next up is the PE for the exhaust heat shield... but I will continue with that tomorrow



Tommy

[digger303]

Lots of Pe still to do , but it's promising to be a stand out build....

[bfrd]

As always, your work is astounding!

[Kevthemodeller]

Hey Guys!

The buildning mojo is really low right now, so things go a bit slow.

Tommy the rate and standard you build it's not surprising you lose a bit of mojo every now and again

[Tomcat64]

Hej Tommy!

Just done some major catching up on this project - stunning work and attention to detail as always, and it's a shame the kit is fighting you back on the fit issues.

Hope you stick with it as I think this is going to look stunning when you've beaten it into submission - and that debonder just got added to a shopping list

[TommyKillander]

Thanks a lot, fellas!

I really appreciate the support!

I haven't given up yet, but I doubt that I will make it to the deadline


Tommy

[TommyKillander]

Let's push on with the build

I first scraped off the detail on the heatshield


but after checking the instructions some more and dryfitting the PE, I soon realised that I had to remove more plastic


It was quite fiddly to position and glue in place... It's amazing how long time fast curing CA-glue can take before it's grips (when you *REALLY* want it to adhere to the surface). When you get it on your fingers it's rock-solid in milli-seconds


The only solution thet seemed viable for seams in front of the airscoops was to fill it with either Liquid Sprue or CA-glue - I decided to use the first alternative; right or wrong.


Horisontal stabilisers - they shall be positioned in a anhedral configuration. There are none (or very poor) instructions and supports for that in the kit parts...



I hope this will be OK...


Tommy

[Tomcat64]

Great to see that you're still making progress Tommy

If you haven't seen it elsewhere already I'm planning to extend the deadline on the SIG for a while in the current climate to allow people time to finish off without needing to rush anything so plenty of time left now

[TommyKillander]

Great to see that you're still making progress Tommy

If you haven't seen it elsewhere already I'm planning to extend the deadline on the SIG for a while in the current climate to allow people time to finish off without needing to rush anything so plenty of time left now

That's excellent news! Thanks


Tommy

[TommyKillander]

It's Alive

I've been working on another project for a while now, but it has just been finished off - so it's back to this bird again

I started by sanding down the seams on the droptanks.
One of the droptanks had a visible seam in the front (unfortunately I didn't catch it on the photo)


But it's fixed now anyway. I have also rescribed the lost panel lines and polished the parts.


Main landing gear: it needs some cleanup, but it looks reasonable OK.


The nose landing gear, on the other hand, had some issues:

Short-mould:

But it's not gonna be seen so I will ignore that, even if it feels bad....

I never figured out how you are supposed to paint and assemble this...


So I decided cut the fork to make it possible to assemble, detail up, paint and weather the oleo strut and the wheel separately.


Padded with some plasticard to get rid of the seam made by the saw


...something like this will work I think.


Now I only need to clean up the part and do all the stuff I mentioned above

It's good to be back at the bench again

Tommy

[digger303]

[TommyKillander]

Thanks, mate!


Remember that I said something about the short-mould in my previous post "won't fix that, it won't be visible anyway" ?
I couldn't been more wrong

So instead if fixing it when it was easy to do, I had to do styrene-brain-surgery


While I was still all worked up I decided to detail the nose landinggear a bit




When studying the reference pictures I decided to scratchbuild and paint the cable-harness separately... I don't know if that is a good or bad idea, but it's worth a try because I think that i can be difficult to detail paint that.





Tommy

[TommyKillander]

Okey.

I'm moving on with the under-carriage related stuff



Baaad Kinetic - bad boi!


So I have to fix those sink-marks...


The PE set included a couple of PE upgrades, so I decided to go with those




And we have started to prepare some parts for painting...



Tommy

[Kevthemodeller]

As ever, superb detailing Tommy

[digger303]

As ever, superb detailing Tommy

[TommyKillander]

As ever, superb detailing Tommy

Thanks guys!

Short update; been working on the HUD today.

Protecting the cockpit with some masking-tape


Black anti glare paint on the IP cover


Added the PE hud. I found a small round clear part from some finished kit (the TS-11 maybe?) that serves well as a optic lens for the HUD projector.


I'm sure that I made a HUD glass from PET earlier in this build, but I cant find it now..
So I had to make a new one



Tommy