Harriers

Well after a week or so of bad weather preventing me varnishing these, I have finally got my Harriers finished. While Cold War warplanes might not be massively tasteful ATM, this blog is to log my painting progress and these are what I have painted most recently.

These models are the old resin Harrier GR3, made by Battlefront. Quite nice kits, but one of the intakes had a nasty extra piece of resin and I had to repair one of the intakes with putty after I damaged it fixing the casting error. As these are now out of production, I had to sort it out myself, rather than get a replacement.

I think they have come out well.

Signal of the Times?

So a railway update this week. I have finished my Signal Box!

This kit is from Metcalfe. While building it, I realised that the cabin windows were rather large and that the bare interior would be quite visible. As such, I ordered the Metcalfe Signal Box interior kit, which is pictured below, and also while being installed.

Finally, I touched up bare edges with paint (Citadel Contrast is useful for this) and fitted gutters and a drainpipe to the rear (previously the snap off end of a CV-19 test swab, shame to throw perfectly good 3mm rod away!).

There's a hint in the last picture as to the next blog update, those Harriers have paint now!