1/48 Tamiya Sea Harrier FRS Mk1

Gallery Article by J.J.Chen on Jan 13 2016

 

      

This project lasted one year. So many times I thought I'd give up that I can’t remember, but I finished! With a little inspiration from the film ROCKY.

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Tamiya released this model in early 1980’s when I was a baby. It’s a nice model by the standard of it’s time, overall shape is highly accurate, and the fit is good, with raised panel lines, a simple but accurately shaped PEGASUS engine and synchronized nozzles, which’s fun but a bit tricky to build, and doesn’t work well when finished after finishing, especially hand painting.

Enjoy modelling!

J.J.Chen

Photos and text © by J.J.Chen