Jamie's Eduard 1/48 Harrier

[jdart58]

Hello everyone,

For the FAA Sig I've decided to build the Eduard 1/48 Harrier

There is only one scheme that qualifies for the FAA so I'm pretty stuck with what I can do with it. However, I like this scheme, especially with the tail art














I've also got a few aftermarket goodies on the way (fully-resin seat and resin exhaust nozzles)

Thanks for looking
Jamie

[jdart58]

Well, I've been extremely lazy over the past week and a half not being bothered to post all of my photos up on the forum. So here are all of the photos of the harrier build so far.

The first stage was doing various sub-assemblies




I then painted the cockpit in Ultimate grey primer as this was the closest match to the colour of the PE. The cockpit was then detail painted with citadel paints, chipped, had a Ultimate dark dirt wash all over and humbrol pigments in the places where the pilot's feet would have been





The air intake was painted with Ultimate white primer. I tend to do all of my white painting with this because I find it the easiest to spray


The fan was painted with Vallejo acrylic aluminium and weathered with Ultimate dark dirt wash. The air intake was then glued to the cockpit section


I then masked off the fan blades so I could paint the intake white again easily if any paint went down there





I decided to test fit the aircraft on its gears in case there was a problem at a later date which would be much harder to resolve




The whole plane was primed in Ultimate black primer




The aircraft was painted with Mr Hobby Aqueous H335 and then mottled with lighter and darker shades of this colour





I'm really enjoying this build so far and would recommend this kit to anyone
Thanks for looking
Jamie

[jnbattleship]

Jamie, your jumpjet starts to look properly fantastic, nice one.

[RossiM1]

Great looking kit there Jamie, and your build is really moving at a pace nice work on the paint will have to give this black primer basing and mottling ago still stuck in the pre shading days at the moment.
Good luck

[Avgas]

Looking v good, I forgot I had this one in the stash so looking on with interest.

[martin57]

Nice work Jamie.
Looking great

[TommyKillander]

Wow!

That looks just fantastic!

Great build sofar - keep up the good work!


Tommy