Kinetic 1/48 Sea Harrier FA.2

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:22 am

Very nice paint work!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Jul 30, 2020 9:11 pm

BigWall wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:22 am Very nice paint work!

Thanks BigWall!

Ok, let's continue. As you understand by now I will not be able to make it across the finishing line in time, but I will of course press on with the build until it is finished. I want this off my work-bench before I can focus on the next build and I don't want to put it on hold anymore...

Masked the heatshields

Fixing the gaps in the wing-fences with some diluted Tamiya Putty

Some touch-up with black primer.

...OK - we are finally ready for painting the marble coat and the blend coat. I will do some experiments on the primed spoons tomorrow before I commit to paint on the model

Tommy

Hawkmoon · Post by **Hawkmoon** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:22 am

All looking good from here Tommy and top work as always

Kevthemodeller · Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:52 am

I did try putty for the wind spliters, but found it difficult to sand and not break off the PE, settled for CA as mentioned, glad you sorted it

Just be careful, I knocked of my at regular intervals

digger303 · Post by **digger303** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:09 am

Looks slick....nice paint very smooth

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 01, 2020 4:00 pm

Hawkmoon wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:22 am All looking good from here Tommy and top work as always

digger303 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:09 am Looks slick....nice paint very smooth

Thanks guys

Kevthemodeller wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:52 am I did try putty for the wind spliters, but found it difficult to sand and not break off the PE, settled for CA as mentioned, glad you sorted it

Just be careful, I knocked of my at regular intervals

Yeah, I had to be very careful when sanding, I used the Ultimate customisable sanding sheets cut in cobination with regular sandingsticks. It's not perfect, but it will do

Ok, done some paint testing on spoons:

Two types of marble coat

Added the blend coat using highly diluted H335 Medium Sea Gray

I will use a combination of those two on the aircraft I think...

Tommy

digger303 · Post by **digger303** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:39 am

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:19 pm

Paints - finally!

Marble coat first

I used a mix of both H325 and H338 in separate layers

Starting with the Blend coat - H335

Done - that took an hour or two...

...but I forgot the outsides of the hatches

Distressed medium sea gray basecoat done

Next up will be some detail painting (radomes, antennas and stuff like that...)

Tommy

RangerNeil · Post by **RangerNeil** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:32 pm

Looks excellent!! Wish mine were as good as this

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:40 pm

RangerNeil wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:32 pm Looks excellent!! Wish mine were as good as this

Thanks Neil

Tommy

Stokesy44 · Post by **Stokesy44** » Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:21 pm

Beautiful work

Kevthemodeller · Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:19 am

Looking good Tommy

Post by **Tomcat64** » Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:55 pm

Absolutely awesome result on the paintwork Tommy - that's stunning

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Mon Aug 03, 2020 3:47 pm

Thanks a lot, guys!

I have done some detail-painting.

I used XF-78 Wooden Deck Tan for the radomes

Painting the nose-cone...

Some more detail painting...

Tommy

Post by **Tomcat64** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:29 pm

Lovely tidy work picking out the details Tommy - this is really coming to life now

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:06 pm

Tomcat64 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:29 pm Lovely tidy work picking out the details Tommy - this is really coming to life now

Thanks Neil

I have started with the decals today. It's the last week of my vacation so I have to fix all the stuff I have promised to do during the vacation

So I have only spent an hour or so today, hope to be able to have time to continue tomorrow...

There is a large sheet of decals (made by Cartograf) included in the kit and they are very good. The instructions are, however, less than good...

The decals and stencils are spread out over 4 sheets, and there are errors, wrong numbers, references that does not exist on the decal sheet. So everything goes very slow, because I have have to double-check everything.

But the good news is that there is a detonation-cord decal included in the decal sheet (but it's not mentioned in the instructions anywhere).

The individual have been chosen: ZD610

Tommy

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 11:01 pm

Really coming together
I agree, you build so neat and tidy

Love it as the decals start to bring a build to life
Nice work

Post by **Tomcat64** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:32 pm

Strewth - they couldn't even get the decal instructions right??

Keep at it Tommy - you're nearly there mate

Stokesy44 · Post by **Stokesy44** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:45 pm

Beautiful paintwork, the marbling looks great. Nice to see the detail stuff and the decals, looking like the real deal now.

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Sat Aug 08, 2020 4:08 am

It's coming along VERY nicely!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:08 pm

Thanks a lot!

Yes, it's starting to look like a real SHAR now

I'm continuing with the decals and the progress is s bit slow - but I'm not in any hurry (anymore)

I have found this walkaround to be very useful for double-checking the placement of the stencils:
http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/waSHa.html

The lo-vis roundel on the underside of the wing should be placed *before* attaching the pylons, so I had to improvise

...slowly getting there

The black edges on the tail-fin are a little bit too small, so I will have to touchup that with some black paint later on...

Tommy

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:57 pm

It just keeps getting better!

SMAddict66 · Post by **SMAddict66** » Sun Aug 09, 2020 2:38 pm

Splendid work!

Post by **Twokidsnosleep** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:57 am

Looking great Tommy K

Stokesy44 · Post by **Stokesy44** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:32 am

Its amazing how the decals bring an aircraft to life

Post by **Tomcat64** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:14 am

Great work Tommy

Keep at it!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:16 pm

Thanks a for all the cheers, it's much appreciated!

Final push to complete the stencils...

And I have glossed the complete aircraft with GX-100 thinned with MLT

Next step will be some additional detail-painting of the small thrust nozzles, but it will require some masking so need to let the gloss coat cure properly before I can do that...

Tommy

RangerNeil · Post by **RangerNeil** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:13 pm

As others have said - the decals REALLY bring the model to life - well done on an amazing job!!

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:52 am

You're getting there. It looks great!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:31 pm

Hello,

Only a short update today; I have ended my vacation and started to work again - man, that sucks

Masking the small trust nozzles to prep for painting; I wonder why I didn't do this directly after painting the base-coat (that would have been much smarter)

Added some extra "masking" using a post-it sticker...

Painted with Collector Escape. The smallest nozzles where brushpainted because it was to difficult to mask them

Tommy

DRUMS01 · Post by **DRUMS01** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:25 pm

Hey Tommy, how is your Harrier coming along?

Ben

Stokesy44 · Post by **Stokesy44** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 9:34 pm

Looks better with every post. Well worth all the work.

Kevthemodeller · Post by **Kevthemodeller** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:19 pm

Home straight now Tommy and looking good

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:47 pm

Thanks guys!

Sorry for the slow updates, but work ramped up really hard this week and kids also started school

But I have finally started the weathering... I'm using oils as usual.

I haven't made up my mind if I should make this a "dirty girl" or not

I might tone it down a bit - maybe.

Tommy

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 3:12 am

It's looking great!

Hawkmoon · Post by **Hawkmoon** » Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:28 am

Nicely done that man and top work as always

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:24 pm

Thanks !

Moar weathering....

Using Tamiya Brown panel wash to get a darker tone.

The build is on the finishing lap now; tomorrow I will put on flatcoat and do some final weathering around the exhausts

Tommy

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:41 am

Nice! I can't wait to see it finished!

Stokesy44 · Post by **Stokesy44** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:20 am

Slow but steady wins the race. Looking really good Mark.

Stash · Post by **bfrd** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:06 am

I sure hope you are proud of how this is looking! Blessed Feces this is good!

SMAddict66 · Post by **SMAddict66** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:34 pm

bfrd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:06 am I sure hope you are proud of how this is looking! Blessed Feces this is good!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 9:51 pm

BigWall wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:41 am Nice! I can't wait to see it finished!

Me too! But I'm close to the finish line now...

Stokesy44 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:20 am Slow but steady wins the race. Looking really good Mark.

Thanks!

bfrd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:06 am I sure hope you are proud of how this is looking! Blessed Feces this is good!

Thanks Matt!
I have put this build back in the box a couple of times and I have even considered ditch the build completely, but I have done so much detailing and scratchbuilding on it that I feel that I must carry on. But now everything seems to come together and I feel that all that hard work is starting to pay off.

Okay, this will be a long update...

Flatcoated everything with GX-113 thinned with MLT

..and it's time for unmasking

I'm really nervous about the air scoop and cockpit

But it went well!

Problem.... the white tac has started to leak down in the cockpit tub

Most of it fixed, but there is som tac left between the wind screen and the IP cover

I was able to fix that to an acceptable level - I managed to dig most of it out using a piece of paper. The rest will have to pass as "weathering"

Installed the exhausts. I spent half an hour checking reference photos and I decided to for horisontal, since most of the parked aircrafts had them positioned like that.

Painting the nav lights

Installing landing gear...

...and it can stand on it's own!

...well, almost. I had to sand down the cental landing gear wheel a bit to make it rest on the outrigger-wheels

Added the droptanks and landing gear doors

...and the horisontal stabilisers

Next update will probably be the last one! I hope to be able to finish the build tomorrow, since this is the first weekend in 2 months that me and my family haven't been busy...

Tommy

SMAddict66 · Post by **SMAddict66** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:58 pm

Outstanding Sir, simply outstanding

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Sun Aug 30, 2020 2:26 am

Spectacular build! Great job!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:06 pm

Thanks guys!

I was a bit too optimistic about being able to finish the build today, so I will need one day more I think

Today I have spent most of the day with the missiles and the canopy

Prepared all small parts by putting them on cocktail-sticks

The paint instructions for the AMRAAMs seemed a bit too simplistic, so I had to double-check

So let's get started with primer

I used primer as a filler for a couple of gaps

Painting - I used H308 Gray FS36375, H1 White and H337 Grayish Blue FS35237

I need to brushpaint the fins with a dark metal tone, but I'll do that tomorrow

Decals

And I have also worked on the canopy

Painting the det-cord, using microscope for painting and cleanup

Some PE for the rear mirror

Painting it with Molotov Chrome diluted with MLT

Tommy

SMAddict66 · Post by **SMAddict66** » Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:27 pm

OMG

a microscope to paint the canopy. Your constant pursuance of perfection is mind boggling

Your builds are a joy to watch and learn from

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Mon Aug 31, 2020 5:01 pm

SMAddict66 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:27 pm OMG a microscope to paint the canopy. Your constant pursuance of perfection is mind boggling

Your builds are a joy to watch and learn from

Thanks Phil

Yeah, sometimes things gets close to ridiculous...

Tommy

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:28 pm

Hey Guys!

Final build update - it feels almost wierd

Finishing the missiles

Lost and Found

This piece of PE pinged away from the aircraft at some point - I don't know when that happened and I didn't see that it was missing. But when I took a break earlier today I saw something grey on the concrete floor that looked familiar

Attached the canopy. I had to check some pictures to find the correct position.

Last thing; the pitot tubes

I was planning to scratch build something but after some consideration I sacrificed a 1/72 scale Viggen pitot tube set

Painted it in bright metal (H8 SIlver)

And we are done!

I will take better photos tomorrow for the Reveal post

Tommy

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:05 pm

BigWall · Post by **BigWall** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:10 pm