1/48 Hasegawa AV-8B Harrier II Plus

Gallery Article by Gidi Vitkon on July 11  2011

 

The Hasegawa kit is beautiful, very complex, but has some faults.  The biggest problem was the nose angle that I corrected attaching the nose section to the engine turbine and then both of them to the main body looking to get the right angle.

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I detailed the cockpit walls, opened the front landing gear bay and opened the integral ladder and handles along the right side of the nose.  I added the harnesses to the seat and an Eduard HUD.

Paints where mainly from Humbrol, the decals are the excellent Twobobs 48-075 sheet. Weathering was done with Promodeller wash.

After two years of working on and off on the kit, I finally finished just in time for a model show that the Israeli IPMS club made for the F-15I squadron. 

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Thanks

Gidi Vitkon

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Photos and text © by Gidi Vitkon