Freightdog 1/72 P1154 RAF Harrier

Thorvic · April 15, 2012, 03:44:27 PM

Believe it or not despite helping out Colin with this project i had never actually built one to date. So with the new year and after putting my ships in dry dock for a while i finally dug out my P1154 and decided to build it. I was going to do it fully armed with the weapons update set Freightdog also did, but then i spotted Vingtor had come out with some Harrier Prototype & Demonstrator decals so i decided to complete the P1154 Harrier as it would have been as a 1970's demonstrator

The last two show the Hawker Siddeley Logo on the tail fin and the Hawker Siddeley Harrier logo on the nose.

Questions & comments welcomed.

G

Weaver · April 15, 2012, 03:59:25 PM

It looks excellent!

So when's he going to do a P.1154RN then?

kitnut617 · April 15, 2012, 04:07:15 PM

Very nice Geoff ---

Thorvic · April 15, 2012, 04:13:14 PM

Quote from: Weaver on April 15, 2012, 03:59:25 PM
It looks excellent!

So when's he going to do a P.1154RN then?

Cheers Weaver

Thats a question you'll have to ask Colin

Hobbes · April 16, 2012, 12:58:50 AM

Well done Geoff. It's a nice kit to build, isn't it?

Mossie · April 16, 2012, 02:08:47 AM

Great job Geoff, although I was expecting you to do it as a RN demonstrator!

Quote from: Thorvic on April 15, 2012, 03:44:27 PM

The last two show the Hawker Siddeley Logo on the tail fin and the Hawker Siddeley Harrier logo on the nose.

Questions & comments welcomed.

G

I think I see your reasoning here. I thought the P.1154 was supposed to get the Kestrel name, but the Harrier probably wouldn't have gone ahead had the P.1154 proceded and it's quite likely they'd have changed the name for such a different aircraft?

PR19_Kit · April 16, 2012, 02:35:47 AM

As I read it, the P.1154 WAS going to be called a 'Harrier' as 'Kestrel' had already been used for the six P.1127 'production' aircraft. And if the P-1154 Harrier had gone ahead there never would have been any need to build the Harriers that we all know (and love....) nowadays.

Thorvic · April 16, 2012, 04:20:14 AM

Yeap Mike Pryce aka (Harrier

) will confirm the P1154 was the original Harrier, when that program was culled in the 1965 purge, they threw hawkers a bone by having the Kestrel configured to become an operational strike aircraft using the smaller & simpler system and carried the Harrier name over.

I did consider an RN demonstrator but their is a possibility of a hybrid version of the Single seater propossed for the RN eventually coming out which will fit the bill.

NARSES2 · April 16, 2012, 07:30:56 AM

Nice one Geoff

bearmatt · April 23, 2012, 11:05:23 PM

Like it!
More photos to come?