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Ratch · Posted: Sat 08 Mar 2008 10:08 am Post subject: Owen's Harrier GR.3

Progress of Owen's Harrier will be reported here

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Owen · Posted: Sun 09 Mar 2008 13:33 pm Post subject:

I shall be building this Harrier GR3 in 1/72 and will finish it in the Green/Grey camo scheme.
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Owen · Posted: Sat 15 Mar 2008 18:19 pm Post subject:

I made a start on things this morning. Sprues were primed up in Halfords Primer ready to go.

A couple of hours later, once dry I began the fitting of the cockpit component (i.e., one seat!) and the engine parts. The fuselage halves have now been glued together, with filler curing on the seams but I didn't take any photos

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Owen · Posted: Fri 21 Mar 2008 23:16 pm Post subject:

Laborious filling and sanding at the moment, the current state of play looks like this:

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Owen · Posted: Tue 25 Mar 2008 22:56 pm Post subject:

Filled, Sanded and now primed and masked ready for spraying.

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 07 Apr 2008 11:38 am Post subject:

How's it going Owen

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Owen · Posted: Mon 07 Apr 2008 15:55 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been on holiday for the past week but have had problems with spraying Humbrol Acrylics. I had originally planned to use these for this build, but they don't seem to take to the Halford's Grey Primed surface. On bare plastic it is fine, but the Primer makes it like a wax-resist. I'll spray again this evening, but with Enamels

I think a bit of further experimentation is needed with the Acrylics when spraying - it would appear they work best when brush painted.
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Owen · Posted: Tue 08 Apr 2008 16:10 pm Post subject:

I sprayed it up again, this time using Enamels just to play it safe. It went on well, I don't think it'll need another coat.

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Owen · Posted: Thu 10 Apr 2008 21:45 pm Post subject:

Everything is now masked up and ready for spraying. I've decided to go with the Blu-Tack method. I've tried it before, but it hasn't worked before but hopefully the new brush will solve this. The masking has taken around an hour and a half, so I hope it works! The instruction sheet has some pretty grainy diagrams, making it hard to establish which bits go where

Also, does anyone know which Squadron/Group the GR3 from this boxing is when portrayed as the Green/Grey camo varient? The instructions I have are the ones that only tell you its a GR.3, not the details of the individual aircraft.
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Challenger · Posted: Thu 10 Apr 2008 22:26 pm Post subject:

They both come from 1 Squadron, if that helps

Strangely my boxing from the 1990s' has a picture of the aircraft on the back and a good clear image of the Squadron badge. Actually quite a nice system (at least i think so!)
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dancho · Posted: Thu 10 Apr 2008 22:41 pm Post subject:

My feeble research leads me to believe it's RAF No. 1 Sq. during the Falklands War.
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dancho · Posted: Thu 10 Apr 2008 22:42 pm Post subject:

Doh! Beat me to it!
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Ratch · Posted: Fri 11 Apr 2008 07:04 am Post subject:

XZ992 was with No.1 (F) Squadron at Wittering on 29th March 1982 and by April had been allocated fin code – Red 05. Left Wittering on 28th May for the Falkland Conflict, returning to Wittering on 16th November 1982.
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Owen · Posted: Fri 11 Apr 2008 16:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks for info!

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Owen · Posted: Sat 12 Apr 2008 21:25 pm Post subject:

Sprayed in H163 this evening. Hopefully the Blu-Tak will work, its a little bit wet at the moment Nailbiting

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Owen · Posted: Sun 13 Apr 2008 20:09 pm Post subject:

I've got a bit more done today.

Masking removed and Blu-Tak cleaned up. I'm quite impressed with the method. For a first try it has come out quite well.

I've also got the decals on the wing bottoms before I fit the pylons/weapons. I'm not very impressed with them though. Both codes broke up when I was applying them and with two coats of Klear down the look like they'll silver

This picture doesn't show it because they've just had some Micro Sol applied

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dancho · Posted: Sun 13 Apr 2008 20:29 pm Post subject:

Groovy. I was wondering how that speed brake would look closed. It fits good.
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Owen · Posted: Sun 13 Apr 2008 20:37 pm Post subject:

So thats what it was. I wasn't sure weather to put it up or down. It's too late to change now!

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ColinM · Posted: Sun 13 Apr 2008 20:42 pm Post subject:

Great work, puts mine to shame.

What is 'the BlueTac method?

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Owen · Posted: Sun 13 Apr 2008 20:54 pm Post subject:

I'm afriad that I didn't take a picture of it masked up. Simply, the "Blue Tak method" is to try and achieve blurring betweek camouflage lines. By rolling up thin sausages of Blu-Tak and putting them where the camo needs masking (filling in other bits with masking tape), when spraying the spray does not quite get behind the masking tape enough to make a solid line.

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