1/32 Trumpeter AV-8B Harrier

Gallery Article by Steve Ringlein on Jan 13 2011

 

Hello again, this is one of the kits that I finished last year. I know there has been a lot said about this kit mostly about the nose of it being too short  when I built it that was one of the first things on my list to fix.  I started by cutting the nose off about in the middle of it and added a .090 thousands sheet of plastic to extend the nose out.  After the glue dried over night I started to sand it down and shape it for what I thought it should look like.  From what I can tell it looks right to me.  There is a lot of things about this model that need to be fixed to make it in to something that looks good, but all the things that need to be fixed are really small, I am also  speaking to all the AMS modelers out there too.

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A few other things that I did to my Harrier was open up all the vents fixed the hard points. As far as the cockpit and the wheel well went I used both Aires set for them.  The decals I used were the kit ones because no one has came out with any.....HINT HINT  Twobobs.

Enjoy the photos.

Steve Ringlein

Photos and text © by Steve Ringlein