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I love that diamond pattern - looks like the shadow of another jet, or a jet's silhouette further away than it really is. Nice!
On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister
Wow nice work there Theuns, love the diamond pattern. If there are flaws I don't see them.
Funny they screwed up the insignia though, think that's one thing they'd get right.
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
I am not happy with the build but calling it done.
BTW ,anyone doing the SAAF sceeme take note the SA flags on the fin should be like mine here, the kit shows them pointing the wrong direction.
Humbroll enamels wit Future clear dull coat.
Theuns
Cats.... yeah, it's the cats of course!!
Theuns - looking good, that diamond pattern is actually quite nice looking!
VanceCrozier Sprue-ce Goose Gamera Till the first of the year. Lol, just yanking your chain Vance, I know you're buried in Saabs right now Vance buried in SAABs - sounds a bit like the play room at McDonalds Except without the screaming and jumping around. Well, mostly without the screaming and jumping around...
Sprue-ce Goose Gamera Till the first of the year. Lol, just yanking your chain Vance, I know you're buried in Saabs right now Vance buried in SAABs - sounds a bit like the play room at McDonalds
Gamera Till the first of the year. Lol, just yanking your chain Vance, I know you're buried in Saabs right now
Till the first of the year. Lol, just yanking your chain Vance, I know you're buried in Saabs right now
Except without the screaming and jumping around.
Well, mostly without the screaming and jumping around...
She's looking good Theuns!
After reaching the point where I was not having any more fun sanding I put the basic camo on, Humbrol enamels freehand.
I still need to paint the radome a slightly lighter grey.
I had to modify the blade antennas on the spine as the SAAF Grippens are different to the kit.
Saabs, Flankers, Intruders and something French, Oh My!!!!
Gamera Theuns: I hope the fit isn't too bad since I have picked up one of those since the build started. No idea when I'll ever get around to building it though. Vance: Well, there's always room in the Japanese GB for a Shinden (wink, nudge)
Theuns: I hope the fit isn't too bad since I have picked up one of those since the build started. No idea when I'll ever get around to building it though.
Vance: Well, there's always room in the Japanese GB for a Shinden (wink, nudge)
EXACTLY what i need, another GB! (How long does that one run anyway? I'm certainly tied up until the winter...)
The little propelled saab!! great Vance :)
rtoo speed makes ugly results, too relax don't make results
Ahhh well, they can't all fall together!
Yea the engineering on this kit was not so logic to me. They could have easly split the tail in half aswell as the wing outer pannels that are solid till about the middle. Where they join the place to sand is not good.
Overall I was not impressed with the kit, but it's almost done now.
Theuns - sand & fill - wasn't the gap on the tail kinda crazy? What were they thinking there anyway?Gamera - I'm starting to think I need one of those Kawasaki Shindens too!
Great Vance you have to come in here with yet another Saab story....
Always thought this was another cool looking aircraft, I'd love to do one alongside a Kawasaki Shinden and a Curtiss Ascender. Like I don't have five zillion things already I need to build first.
Believe it or not lads, I have actually made some progress on my Grippen! There was allot of filling and sanding to be done an I am not a fan of that :-(
Hoping to get paint on by the weekend.
Alright, I really wasn't planning on this, but I ended up with time to kill at the office & the little Saab kept calling to me!The kit:I spent some time snipping parts from the sprues & cleaning up. Wings assembled, prop assembled, cockpit started, engine air intake drilled out. The wings have no locating pins, but with the tail booms slotting into place as they do, that area has to be dead-on square. A tape-only dry-fit shows this kit actually fits very well - good news considering the raised panel lines!
The seat already had pretty good shapes, I added masking tape seatbelts. Considering it's only 1/72, the belts hardware will just be painted on.
Sounds good but too rich for me. I love the Viggen but not that much. Still the Airfix kit leaves something to be desired, I've seen people asking sixty bucks US for it simply because it's the only 1/48th kit unless there's a limited run by Tarangus etc.
My kit is almost together, found some of the missing parts in my toolbox . Still I've been taking a break on her before I pull out what hair I have left.
I saw a product release note in, uhhh, "another publication that ShAll not be naMed", for a new 1/48 Viggen from Tarangus. Based on their other releases I suppose it'll be a $100 special though.
http://www.tarangus.se/all-new-viggen-model/
How about a new Viggen, Mr Trumpeter ? It should be due now that we're all building an old one :)
Those Heller Viggens certainly comand a decent price on Ebay.
Cheers
Tony
I'm just taking it one GB at a time.
lol, nope, don't need another kit. But if I was to go looking for something I'd be making a move on that B18 kit from the Czech manufacturer...
Agent appears to be looking at the B-17 floatie....
You may need another kit......
I have many books and my Lair smells of rich mahogany!!! Stay thirsty my fellow MOJOs!
I'm leaning closer and closer to wheels-up just to get it finished so I can attack my Lansen. Or Viggen. Wait, I've got a pair of Drakens to. Sheesh, maybe I'll let the cat pick which one I do next...
Wheels up! Hang it from the ceiling at work. Judging by the beverage can, what is the agent going to "Fermisize"?
In other news, work on the Barrel has begun, pics soon............
Wheeee, glad to know they're not all this way!
Old Airfix - really depends on the kit. That little Fouga Magister kit I built (granted, small parts count) has zero filler & needed very little sanding.
I have no idea what to do about the nose weight Vance, maybe your agent, um cat has some ideas?
BTW: The Viggen is sorta together. The new Airfix kits are light-years ahead of this kit. I'm trying not to remove too much of the raised detail but the fit is so bad I've had to in quite a few places. And several parts have vanished from the box so I guess I'll have to scratch-build them. I thought the four-colour paint scheme would be the hard part but it's like one of the labours of Hercules just to get the blasted thing together...
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