Great video restoration Marty. I had one of those Harriers as a kid, bought for me by my dear Mum. I must have been 6 or 7. Your build brought me right back - thank you!!
Thanks for your video presentation. As a child I had one of these. I lost the outrigger wheels, nose cone and canopy, but it still gave me a lot of enjoyment. 😎👍
Great vlog Marty. I was lucky enough during a navy day to stand on HMS Fox as a Harrier drifted over the top at about 100 feet. It stopped in the air rotated 180 degrees and bowed to the ship. The sheer power of that machine and seeing the pilot looking straight at me was just awe inspiring. So this makeover brought some amazing memories back to me too.
I was fortunate enough to see a Harrier at the CNE Air Show at the end of summer in Toronto back in the 80’s. It stopped in front of us along the lake shore and rotated and rose vertically before taking off. Never knew they were as old as me born in ‘67.
A really lovely model of one of my favourite Aircraft. As a kid, my dad took me and my older brother to North Weald Air Show. It was only a 25-minute drive from home. As part of its display, it would hover over the VIP stand and do a bow in front of them. A Great Aircraft designed and made in England. We sold the design to the Americans and now we are buying the newer version from them. (Maybe Frogtape is green because Frogs are green.) Martin. (Thailand)
Love this makeover. My elder brother had one when we were kids and it now looks very much like the ‘before’ model here. The nose cone and outriggers never looked right. Great stuff. Thank you.
Hey Marty, thanks for this video. I had this exact toy when I was a kid and it was just as beat up by the time it was passed on to another kid. Man, talk about a walk down memory lane! Thanks!
Hi Marty, My name is Andy Archer from Bradford west Yorkshire England i think i have seen all your video over the last 12 months you inspire me in so many ways . I was born in 56 and my local corner shop was a family run shop and every weekend i went with my pocket money and purchased two or three matchbox cars . I was the number one customer and they always asked me to call to the shop when the sales rep was dew .as i had all the cars i had to look at the catalog to see the ones i did not have , i still have all my Matchbox cars .they have most defiantly been played with and one day i will restore them all , following your videos for each one , many thanks Marty please keep up the super work I have to say i have watched others but yours is the best and funniest please don't ever stoop , hope the family and Kevin stay well
Loved this makeover Marty...the best plastic for vacforming is the clear plastic packaging used for Easter Eggs. Plastic rectangle in a rigid frame; heat till the plastic starts to sag then pull over the form.
Marvellous. I stumbled on this as I'm going to strip the paint off a Dinky Empire flying boat. Enjoyed watching it and learnt heaps. Your finished model is brilliant. The best bit of your video took me by surprise as your Harrier lifts off with the dust swirling below it. One of the original Hawkers screamed past my school in the week of the Transatlantic Trophy race. I remember seeing film of it lifting off from a coal yard near St Pancras in London - your video reminded me of this. One day I might make the big 1/24 Airfix kit, but there's piles of smaller ones that have been in my loft far too long. Thanks for sharing your skills Marty.
Wow - challenging restoration and very nice outcome. The lead casting brought back childhood memories for me - my dad had a *real* molten metal ladle, and we used it often to cast lead. The temporary canopy looks good from here.
I love this video. Seeing you use a kitchen ladle to melt lead, reminded me of a schoolfriend. I used to go to his house, and we'd make fishing weights, using one of his mum's cast iron pans, to melt the lead in. We always washed it carefully afterwards. Used it dozens of times, not even thinking about how poisonous lead is. I expect millions of people do it every day. The underside of my Harrier was an odd 'duck egg green' colour; they varied greatly.. Nice one. Stay safe.
My pops got me this same Harrier when I was a kid living in Germany. Had the Dinky Apollo recovery Sh-3 Sea King "Old 66" too. The Sea King had a motorized rotor. Flew alot of sorties with those two! Great memories. Thanks! 👍
Great job Marty. Unfortunately I watched a Harrier crash at an air show here in Milwaukee back in the 1970s. The pilot ejected, was hurt but he survived. Was a very surreal experience for a 10 year old kid....
Fantastic job Marty - what a pleasure to watch and what attention to detail. Absolutely fabulous work and well worth the wait. On a side note I loved that this came out on a Saturday morning! It just makes my day when this happens. Even if you miss a Saturday I really recommend you hold off on publishing till your Saturday night to catch us weekend warriors at our best and most relaxed! Bravo again sir.
such a great casting showing all the unique details of the Harrier's wing design, the vortex generators, the doogtooth, the wing fences and the anhedral design! A work of art.
I knew it, I knew it, this video and makeover were AWESOME! Marty, you never need to apologise to us for making over ANY brand that you want, they all look so good when YOU are finished with em. Love your work, thank you and to You, Julie and young Kevin, stay safe, the end of this covid-19 stuff may almost be in sight.
@@MrSvenovitch seriously? He's sharing his respect for the role his father played in designing a world leading aircraft. And he deserves that respect. So far as we can tell, the only thing your Dad made was you. His disappointment must be immeasurable.
I loved the Harrier. We had one visit RAF Benson when I was there and a female officer asked if the pilot would take off and bow to the tower. The pilot took off vertically on the runway and while quite low he tipped the plane forward to the tower. The result was the removal of a layer of the runway underneath and the closing of the main runway. My favourite though was the Vuclan which went out of service while I was still in training.
Phantastic restoration ! Looks like just taken out of a toy shop ! I think you can do all restorations you like to do. Never a failure at the end. To bring back old and demolished toys is a real gift ! I'm always entertained how you restore these toys ! 10 from 10 stars for this restoration! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Greetings and best wishes!
Amazingly good fab work. I'm always astonished at how you manage to restore missing/broken parts. Two big thumbs up! Very impressive. And the final result is outstanding. Very nicely done, as usual.
Brilliant job on casting the new nozzle Marty, and also working out a solution for the undercarriage mechanism. I remember making my very first Airfix model in about 1966. It was called a Hawker Siddeley P1127 which was the prototype of what became the Harrier. Great work again 👍
Great restoration 👍! "Jump Jet"...one of the finest military aircrafts of modern times. Unfortunately Dinky was not as common here in Germany as Matchbox and Corgi Toys. So I built a Hawker Harrier in 1974 from Airfix in 1/24 scale. Great model kit!
Wow. Such as beautiful model! I wish Dinky still made toys today, which were and still are far better than the competition. I owned a few Dinky cars that I played to death (only the lunar rover vehicle survived). I was so jealous of friends who owned planes!! I kept an original Dinky toy booklet #8 from 1971 when I was a kid. This shows the Harrier Jump Jet at page 18 in colors that look a bit different from this model in the video. More dark gray than blue with a light gray/greenish underbelly.
Holly heck Marty! Brother you are awesome! That model is beautiful! You are a true artist and craftsman... The level of work is second to none. Grreat job.
Outstanding effort & result, Marty. I saw a Harrier do that vertical stunt at an air show at Andrews AFB years ago - it was surreal !! Beautiful✈ restoration, yes indeed!
Don't care what you work on. You enjoy the challenge and we watch and learn. In the late 50's, Mattel (?) marketed a toy called a "Vac-U-Form". It performed the same function as you tried with the canopy. A small box with heater, sized plastic sheets and a hand operated vacuum pump. We actually made replacement taillights lenses for our '39 Chevrolet 4dr. Sedan, having to layer about 6 sheets together. It passed the MOT. Narragansett Bay
Dinky's well worth the nostalgia too. 😁 Really enjoy it when you release your inner craftsman and test out different techniques and solutions. Great resto and great vid. 👍
First rate job again Marty.I so admire your ability to work around the issues and come up with great solutions. I've still got my Harrier from my childhood,baking with the Jaguar, Royal Navy Phantom and Tornado ( or MRCA - multi role combat aircraft bas they called it then) The hours I spent playing with them ...
Hi Marty, Fantastic job you did of the Dinky Hawker Harrier ,I had one too when I was a kid so it brought some memories for me, keep up the great work.
Beautiful! This just made my COVID filled week. Makes me proud to be a Patreon supporter. By the way, Paul Restorer does great stuff with hand making everything from his own wheels, casting, and dang near everything. It's well worth checking his videos out. No affiliation here, it's just really impressive what he does.
I had the Harrier and The Jaguar, they also did a Phantom. The best bit was they also did them as bare metal kits that you put together and painted yourself. Great times.
Good effort. Sometimes as modelers things don't go quite as we would like. Nice to see your thought processes as you worked through the setbacks. Outstanding result.
Fantastic job Marty. You are so talented making up the lost or damaged parts and ending in an amazing result. The model is beautiful. Thanks for your continued video makeovers.
Marty - If you add a small amount of tin to the lead you cast to make a replacement for the missing nozzle it will be a lot harder and more durable. A wonderful make-over, keep up the good work! Nick, Gosport, UK
Great stuff! Brought back memories. I had one of these as a small child after being captivated at an air show in about 1972 and watching a harrier take off and land? I recall the defeating noise even with clamping my hands over my ears it was so noisy. Mine is likewise played to death in similar condition but with the landing mechanism jamming but intact. Out riggers long gone....I next saw a harrier - SEA version land on HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in the gulf in 1986. Interestingly the RAF harriers were mid grey and same green camouflage pattern on top and light grey underneath and red/blue roundels. Whereas prior to 1982, Naval fixed wing aircraft and Sea harriers were blue/grey upper half and white lower half, with a black radar nose cone forward and red white blue roundels. It seems dinky made something between the two. Harriers were painted sea grey in 1982 on route down south, to play with Skyhawks and Mirages.....but that's another story...
Hey Marty, the real Harrier needs those wing tip outriggers as well in order to keep them from falling over. lol. Keep up the great work. BTW you are the ONLY video provider that has music that is soothing and doesnt ruin the vids, so KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! From Florida USA
Absolutely brilliant build Marty, I am so impressed with your McGiver skills in making something from nothing, very well done. The model looked fabulous and appart from the wounded and nose less pilot all is good. Way to go, looking forward to your next videos. Thanks and be well and safe.
Marty. Don't apologise for not doing a Matchbox. Dinky's are great castings and well worth a makeover. The Harrier, along with the Vulcan bomber are my fav military jet planes and always worth while seeing at any air show.
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Those spray-booth news paper headlines never cease to amaze me.
I had this toy when I was a kid! I am 57 now and I still remember this plane. What memories.
Great video restoration Marty.
I had one of those Harriers as a kid, bought for me by my dear Mum.
I must have been 6 or 7.
Your build brought me right back - thank you!!
Thanks for your video presentation.
As a child I had one of these.
I lost the outrigger wheels, nose cone and canopy, but it still gave me a lot of enjoyment.
😎👍
Great vlog Marty. I was lucky enough during a navy day to stand on HMS Fox as a Harrier drifted over the top at about 100 feet. It stopped in the air rotated 180 degrees and bowed to the ship. The sheer power of that machine and seeing the pilot looking straight at me was just awe inspiring. So this makeover brought some amazing memories back to me too.
Boils led on that spoon and puts it back to use it for food. Your one of a kind Marty
Outstanding restoration Marty. Thank you for all that education for no extra tuition.
You are the best! Cheers, Larry, Memphis, Tennessee USA
I was fortunate enough to see a Harrier at the CNE Air Show at the end of summer in Toronto back in the 80’s.
It stopped in front of us along the lake shore and rotated and rose vertically before taking off.
Never knew they were as old as me born in ‘67.
A really lovely model of one of my favourite Aircraft. As a kid, my dad took me and my older brother to North Weald Air Show. It was only a 25-minute drive from home. As part of its display, it would hover over the VIP stand and do a bow in front of them. A Great Aircraft designed and made in England. We sold the design to the Americans and now we are buying the newer version from them. (Maybe Frogtape is green because Frogs are green.) Martin. (Thailand)
Love this makeover. My elder brother had one when we were kids and it now looks very much like the ‘before’ model here. The nose cone and outriggers never looked right. Great stuff. Thank you.
The end result is just fantastic👌🏻the colours are amazing and I take my hat off to you for working out how to make and fix the replacement parts 👍🏻
Thanks so much 😊
Still have mine. Brought it from Butlins in Bognor Regis around 48 years ago. It needs some tlc too. Thanks for this, Marty.
Looks absolutely brilliant, hats off to you for stripping off the paint when you got it wrong
I had one of these as a kid too. It was an awesome toy. I love what you've done to restore this beautiful model.
I bought 2 of these in 1971 - I was 8 - still have them. Many, many hours of fun. Oh, to go back.....
If there’s a will to restore or replace, no matter the obstacle, Marty finds a way to restore or replace! Good job, mate!
Brings back memories. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇧🇪nice restauration. And there was indeed a spring.
Hey Marty, thanks for this video. I had this exact toy when I was a kid and it was just as beat up by the time it was passed on to another kid. Man, talk about a walk down memory lane! Thanks!
Hi Marty, My name is Andy Archer from Bradford west Yorkshire England i think i have seen all your video over the last 12 months you inspire me in so many ways . I was born in 56 and my local corner shop was a family run shop and every weekend i went with my pocket money and purchased two or three matchbox cars . I was the number one customer and they always asked me to call to the shop when the sales rep was dew .as i had all the cars i had to look at the catalog to see the ones i did not have , i still have all my Matchbox cars .they have most defiantly been played with and one day i will restore them all , following your videos for each one , many thanks Marty please keep up the super work I have to say i have watched others but yours is the best and funniest please don't ever stoop , hope the family and Kevin stay well
Loved this makeover Marty...the best plastic for vacforming is the clear plastic packaging used for Easter Eggs. Plastic rectangle in a rigid frame; heat till the plastic starts to sag then pull over the form.
Marvellous. I stumbled on this as I'm going to strip the paint off a Dinky Empire flying boat. Enjoyed watching it and learnt heaps. Your finished model is brilliant. The best bit of your video took me by surprise as your Harrier lifts off with the dust swirling below it. One of the original Hawkers screamed past my school in the week of the Transatlantic Trophy race. I remember seeing film of it lifting off from a coal yard near St Pancras in London - your video reminded me of this. One day I might make the big 1/24 Airfix kit, but there's piles of smaller ones that have been in my loft far too long. Thanks for sharing your skills Marty.
Wow - challenging restoration and very nice outcome. The lead casting brought back childhood memories for me - my dad had a *real* molten metal ladle, and we used it often to cast lead. The temporary canopy looks good from here.
I love this video. Seeing you use a kitchen ladle to melt lead, reminded me of a schoolfriend. I used to go to his house, and we'd make fishing weights, using one of his mum's cast iron pans, to melt the lead in. We always washed it carefully afterwards. Used it dozens of times, not even thinking about how poisonous lead is. I expect millions of people do it every day. The underside of my Harrier was an odd 'duck egg green' colour; they varied greatly.. Nice one. Stay safe.
My pops got me this same Harrier when I was a kid living in Germany. Had the Dinky Apollo recovery Sh-3 Sea King "Old 66" too. The Sea King had a motorized rotor. Flew alot of sorties with those two! Great memories. Thanks! 👍
I had one, got very bashed up. The switch became impossible to operate after a while. Fantastic project and great memories for me too!
Marty, i just want you to know that your program has been a source of comfort and escape from the misery of this corona induced lockdown. Thank you.
Great job Marty. Unfortunately I watched a Harrier crash at an air show here in Milwaukee back in the 1970s. The pilot ejected, was hurt but he survived. Was a very surreal experience for a 10 year old kid....
Great build and I love all the experimentation you did.... So creative....
Brilliant restoration - a real trip down memory lane, I loved my toy Harrier and what an amazing aircraft. Thanks for sharing.
Well done! You showed a lot of craftsmanship on this one. Excellent work.
Nice job, had one as a kid too....spent a week working on these at RAF wittering in 1987...
This makeover brought back memories of visiting Farnborough Air show with my dad back in the 60's.
Fantastic job Marty - what a pleasure to watch and what attention to detail. Absolutely fabulous work and well worth the wait. On a side note I loved that this came out on a Saturday morning! It just makes my day when this happens. Even if you miss a Saturday I really recommend you hold off on publishing till your Saturday night to catch us weekend warriors at our best and most relaxed!
Bravo again sir.
Good Morning, Mr. Marty! This one turned into a lot of Scratch building. Good on you and Good Job! Stay safe, folks!
such a great casting showing all the unique details of the Harrier's wing design, the vortex generators, the doogtooth, the wing fences and the anhedral design! A work of art.
I knew it, I knew it, this video and makeover were AWESOME! Marty, you never need to apologise to us for making over ANY brand that you want, they all look so good when YOU are finished with em. Love your work, thank you and to You, Julie and young Kevin, stay safe, the end of this covid-19 stuff may almost be in sight.
Thank you so much AzzaFrazzaBoBazzaBanazzaFazzaFoFazza , I really appreciate your feedback! Julie and Kevin say 'Hi!' too!
My dad was one of the designers that worked on the real life aircraft.
Way cool! As far as I am concerned practical V/STOL with minimum penalties is the Holy Grail of fighter design. Is your father still around?
@@marcbrasse747 Yes he is but sadly time has caught up with his mind.
Ppl yakking about their (grand)father...jeezus...what did you do with your OWN life?
@@MrSvenovitch seriously? He's sharing his respect for the role his father played in designing a world leading aircraft. And he deserves that respect.
So far as we can tell, the only thing your Dad made was you.
His disappointment must be immeasurable.
You can get pieces of spring steel from metal banding that has been discarded from large pallets or boxes. Good luck . Great job as always Marty.
Brilliant. Some great skills on display. I used to have that Dinky Harrier.
Fabulous makeover. Not even recognizable from its original state. Bravo! I think I one of these too!
I loved the Harrier. We had one visit RAF Benson when I was there and a female officer asked if the pilot would take off and bow to the tower. The pilot took off vertically on the runway and while quite low he tipped the plane forward to the tower. The result was the removal of a layer of the runway underneath and the closing of the main runway. My favourite though was the Vuclan which went out of service while I was still in training.
I may well have been there...
Phantastic restoration ! Looks like just taken out of a toy shop !
I think you can do all restorations you like to do. Never a failure at the end. To bring back old and demolished toys is a real gift !
I'm always entertained how you restore these toys !
10 from 10 stars for this restoration!
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Greetings and best wishes!
Lovely restoration and nice insides on all the hobby tricks and failures. Just a great hobby video!
Marty you did it again. Great job of bringing the model back to life. Thank you Marty.. I'll be looking for your next episode.
Beautiful job. I like your way to find solutions for the Problems. You've given the old Harrier a new and colored life. Greetings from Germany😊👍👍👍👍
Amazingly good fab work. I'm always astonished at how you manage to restore missing/broken parts. Two big thumbs up! Very impressive. And the final result is outstanding. Very nicely done, as usual.
11 thumbs down? That's 11 guys or gals that are jealous because they can't compete with his talent! Looks great Marty, keep it up!
Brilliant job on casting the new nozzle Marty, and also working out a solution for the undercarriage mechanism. I remember making my very first Airfix model in about 1966. It was called a Hawker Siddeley P1127 which was the prototype of what became the Harrier. Great work again 👍
Super resto Marty !! You did your usual bang up job. Love those out takes at the end !! Good laugh for sure ...
Great restoration 👍!
"Jump Jet"...one of the finest military aircrafts of modern times. Unfortunately Dinky was not as common here in Germany as Matchbox and Corgi Toys. So I built a Hawker Harrier in 1974 from Airfix in 1/24 scale. Great model kit!
Nice job Marty, you know how to cherrish sentimental moments!
Wow. Such as beautiful model! I wish Dinky still made toys today, which were and still are far better than the competition. I owned a few Dinky cars that I played to death (only the lunar rover vehicle survived). I was so jealous of friends who owned planes!! I kept an original Dinky toy booklet #8 from 1971 when I was a kid. This shows the Harrier Jump Jet at page 18 in colors that look a bit different from this model in the video. More dark gray than blue with a light gray/greenish underbelly.
Loving the Bloppers at the end. Another excellent refurbishment job Marty.
Wow Marty ! You are taking on some pretty fearless restorations. Hats off to your skills. Thank for sharing .
Holly heck Marty! Brother you are awesome! That model is beautiful! You are a true artist and craftsman... The level of work is second to none. Grreat job.
I had one of those Harriers as a kid. It’s long gone now. It was great to see you restoring one. Another great video, keep up the good work. 👍
Outstanding effort & result, Marty.
I saw a Harrier do that vertical stunt at an air show at Andrews AFB years ago - it was surreal !! Beautiful✈ restoration, yes indeed!
You left no stones unturned on this project Marty, excellent restoration, looks really cool.👍
Don't care what you work on. You enjoy the challenge and we watch and learn. In the late 50's, Mattel (?) marketed a toy called a "Vac-U-Form".
It performed the same function as you tried with the canopy. A small box with heater, sized plastic sheets and a hand operated vacuum pump. We actually made replacement taillights lenses for our '39 Chevrolet 4dr. Sedan, having to layer about 6 sheets together. It passed the MOT. Narragansett Bay
Dinky's well worth the nostalgia too. 😁 Really enjoy it when you release your inner craftsman and test out different techniques and solutions. Great resto and great vid. 👍
Fantastic job Marty, amazed at the new techniques you experiment with, you are a genius!
Great to see the problem solving process. Would've made many give up but you're clearly made of stronger stuff!
Thanks 👍
First rate job again Marty.I so admire your ability to work around the issues and come up with great solutions.
I've still got my Harrier from my childhood,baking with the Jaguar, Royal Navy Phantom and Tornado ( or MRCA - multi role combat aircraft bas they called it then) The hours I spent playing with them ...
Hi Marty, Fantastic job you did of the Dinky Hawker Harrier ,I had one too when I was a kid so it brought some memories for me, keep up the great work.
They are operational in spain too!! Thank you!! Great video!!!👍👍👍👍
Awesome restoration , Marty !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is a work of Art , Sir Two thumbs way up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent job, always surprising us with your solutions to difficult problems to solve. Congratulations and greetings from Argentina.
Beautiful! This just made my COVID filled week. Makes me proud to be a Patreon supporter.
By the way, Paul Restorer does great stuff with hand making everything from his own wheels, casting, and dang near everything. It's well worth checking his videos out. No affiliation here, it's just really impressive what he does.
The Harrier Model... Looks awesome
You did a brilliant job.
I had the Harrier and The Jaguar, they also did a Phantom. The best bit was they also did them as bare metal kits that you put together and painted yourself. Great times.
You did need to do this Marty! There's nothing wrong with a change and the result is stellar! I also had one of these as a young un! Well done! 😎👍
Good effort. Sometimes as modelers things don't go quite as we would like. Nice to see your thought processes as you worked through the setbacks. Outstanding result.
Wow Marty! That was outstanding! All the custom parts you had to make. Including the canopy. You, sir, are a wizard. Thanks. See ya next time.
I love watching you draft you stickers and such, so precise and professional
That final scene is incredible. Great stuff.
What a beautifully done model! It's nice to see something different from time to time.
That's a fantastic and sympathetic restoration.
Awesome! The Harrier and the Touch Up great job!
Once an air craft fitter always an aircraft fitter what a great restoration I though you might have done a stand camo job👍✈
I'm impressed with your thumbnail, which has become a single nail. Drove me insane watching closeups of that split.
Brilliant job Marty,I sent you that model,I did one but I don’t stick to original,I did mine in snow camouflage,10/10
Fantastic job Marty. You are so talented making up the lost or damaged parts and ending in an amazing result. The model is beautiful. Thanks for your continued video makeovers.
Nice model harrier jet I want of my own. I enjoyed this video.
Marty "The bleeps were great just like my home! " Loved the Dinky for a change!
Glad you enjoyed it
It looks great, even of it's not a matchbox, it is always a pleasure to see your work!
Lovely! Great result. Always a pleasure to see you work through these -- matchbox or not. Many thanks!
It came out beautifully, Marty! Matchbox or not, doesn't matter, it's fun to watch your step-by-step videos!
i used to have that exact same harrier when i was a boy, loved it:)
Another job well done.. it needed love and tenderness and you gave it just shows that it needed.. KUDOS
Marty all of your recreations are outstanding.
Marty - If you add a small amount of tin to the lead you cast to make a replacement for the missing nozzle it will be a lot harder and more durable. A wonderful make-over, keep up the good work! Nick, Gosport, UK
Great stuff! Brought back memories. I had one of these as a small child after being captivated at an air show in about 1972 and watching a harrier take off and land? I recall the defeating noise even with clamping my hands over my ears it was so noisy. Mine is likewise played to death in similar condition but with the landing mechanism jamming but intact. Out riggers long gone....I next saw a harrier - SEA version land on HMS ILLUSTRIOUS in the gulf in 1986.
Interestingly the RAF harriers were mid grey and same green camouflage pattern on top and light grey underneath and red/blue roundels. Whereas prior to 1982, Naval fixed wing aircraft and Sea harriers were blue/grey upper half and white lower half, with a black radar nose cone forward and red white blue roundels. It seems dinky made something between the two. Harriers were painted sea grey in 1982 on route down south, to play with Skyhawks and Mirages.....but that's another story...
Another super makeover - I'm happy with that !
Beautiful!!!😊 Be sure to show the replacement canopy piece when it arrives👍🏼
Will do!
Hey Marty, the real Harrier needs those wing tip outriggers as well in order to keep them from falling over. lol. Keep up the great work. BTW you are the ONLY video provider that has music that is soothing and doesnt ruin the vids, so KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! From Florida USA
So Marty..... can you tell me where I can get some of those "Fellatio" paints you mentioned? @ 26:07 I'm not familiar with that brand.
I think you will have to suck it and see.
I know he meant Vallejo, but that was such a funny ‘slip of the tongue’ moment.
LMAO, yup I am still chuckling about that... :-)
It’s the only Vallejo I get these days.........!
That's a classic slip, out of anything he could've said. Lol
Absolutely brilliant build Marty, I am so impressed with your McGiver skills in making something from nothing, very well done. The model looked fabulous and appart from the wounded and nose less pilot all is good. Way to go, looking forward to your next videos. Thanks and be well and safe.
Marty. Don't apologise for not doing a Matchbox. Dinky's are great castings and well worth a makeover. The Harrier, along with the Vulcan bomber are my fav military jet planes and always worth while seeing at any air show.
I’m not much of a plane fan, but I do have a few favorites. The Harrier I’s definitely one! Really great work on this one Marty. Thank you.👍🏼🤘🏼😎
I had one of these as a kid when Harriers were doing their thing in the Falklands War.
Great restoration Marty. Superb finish mate.