Hasegawa AV-8B Harrier II

Eelco Gregoire
That's a very nice model! He looks great.

Soeren R.
Very nice indeed

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
thanks Eelco and Sören

Choppa Nutta
sweet !

Michael Phillips
That is fantastic! The finish is just excellent. Well done!

Marko
Nice 👍

Roy McKenzie
stunning finish. I love it.

soheil moghisi
Very nice.

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
thank you Choppa, Michael, Marko, Roy and Soheil

Bart Goesaert
Simply beautiful.... a pleasure to look at

Christian Ristits
Lot of inspiration for me, thank you for sharing this wonderful work with us!

arne vd burg
Again a wonderful model Danumurthi !

Scott Dutton
What a beautiful job, well done

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
Thank you Bart, Christian, Arne, and Scott! Glad you like it.

Adam Gudynowski
Good job!

John Dunbar
Stunning!! 👍

Harry Eder
Very good job! 👍 I like this weathered look!

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
thank you Adam, John, and Harry!

Glenn
Very Nice!

Cristian Bordina
Great job Dan, fantastic weathering !!!

Andy W.
Well Done, great Work. A beautiful Paintwork

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
Many thanks for the kind words Glenn, Cristian, and Andy!

Holger Kranich
Danumurthi, i love your painting skills! Your Harrier looks "alive". Especially the heat effekt behind the nozzles! I pull my hat for you.👍😄

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
thanks Holger. I made two AV-8B in the past and all were "clean" builds. the 3rd I was bored and wanted to make it a "weathered" look this time.

Andy W.
And it turned out really well, chapeau.
Did you used preshading only or was it the dark basecoat method with several lighter shades of grey you prefer. In my last builds i'm slowly starting weathering my models. But i'm still far away from such results.

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
Hi Andy... thats great. I started weathering my models only as of this year. Before everything was clean. About the AV-8B.. actually its applied AFTER all the painting process is done. I dilluted XF-1 flat black, also X-19 smoke with lots of thinner. And i set my airbrush to spray 20% and compressor to low at 9psi. And then do lots of repeats based on my ref pics.

Danumurthi Mahendra Författare
And, Andy.... if I do a mistake (i.e. too much or too thick).. i would erase it with spraying a thin layer of the base color until got it right. I think i might have used a tiny drop of XF-10 Flat brown in the mix but i dont remember.

Dale Marston
Nice!!!!!!!

Clifford Keesler
Very nice, I like it a lot.

Andy W.
Thanks for your explanation. There's still a lot of practicing for me, and with your Harrier i got a good reference for the one in my Stash.

Bryn Crandell
WOW! Just amazing!