VanceCrozier

He just remembered his wife had asked him to pick up the kids on the way home!

Lol! Yeah that's what I love about the Viggen (and the Gripen etc) is that awesome STOL performance. I don't know how the Viggen stacks up against a F-16 or Mirage in a dogfight but no other plane has anywhere near that performance taking off, landing, and being prepped on the ground except maybe a Harrier.

I was just looking at the thrust reversers on the kit and the link you sent me Vance to figure out how to paint them.

BTW: The Lansen sounds cool Vance- go for it!

He just remembered his wife had asked him to pick up the kids on the way home!

Mother of aircraft!!  landing turning and take off in an minute!!! never seen similar things before..

PS the pilot probably forget something in the sky?

Alright, I haven't tried out the video embed option yet, why not give it a shot....

oh I get you - I thought you were planning on pre-shading once, then running multiple colours over that. Yes, you'll have your hands full. I've tried pre-shading once with out seeing much for a result, my final coats were too heavy to show through I suspect. Will definitely try it again though. Thinking I may end up doing my Lansen as nobody else has dropped in with one yet.

That's why it's so much fun Vance because I'll have to pre-shade with each colour. So with a four colour scheme I'll have to pre-shade four times- before each coat goes down.

I've done it with two and three colour camo, not hard just extra work.

Yep, you've got the right term with pre-shading. I'm just wondering how much will be visible in areas that get oversprayed multiple times.

Not sure if I'm using the right term here, just going to spray a little dark paint on the panel lines and then go over them with the regular paint, mask the area off and then move on to the second colour, rinse, repeat. Shouldn't be too difficult, just more involved than what I normally do.

Gamera

Thanks again Vance, actually I think these take care of pretty much all of my questions. I notice some dark streaking around the panel lines, this is going to be fun trying to pre-shade a four colour scheme

That's going to be difficult to pre-shade anything other than the underside gray.  You may want to just plan on post-shading the topside.

one of walkarounds i have sacked :D

Thanks again Vance, actually I think these take care of pretty much all of my questions. I notice some dark streaking around the panel lines, this is going to be fun trying to pre-shade a four colour scheme

IIRC, I think there are also some walkaround pics on the IPMS Stockholm website,

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! The instructions are waaaaayyyyyy off!!! Thanks for the link Vance that helps a lot!

Gamera

I pulled out the Viggen and started, bunch of injection pin holes that I've started filling. I may be moving a little slow since I'm working on a pile of stuff right now but the kit is started.

BTW: Anyone know what colour I should be painting the cockpit? The instructions gave the equivalent to USAF Ghost Grey. And the wheel wells were listed as NM aluminum- does that sound right?

Hey Cliff - have a peek here for walkaround pics of the Viggen....

http://data.primeportal.net/hangar/luc_colin3/saab_ajsh_37_viggen_37918/

Looks almost like olive green inside the wheel wells, but aluminum on the inside of the doors??

I pulled out the Viggen and started, bunch of injection pin holes that I've started filling. I may be moving a little slow since I'm working on a pile of stuff right now but the kit is started.

BTW: Anyone know what colour I should be painting the cockpit? The instructions gave the equivalent to USAF Ghost Grey. And the wheel wells were listed as NM aluminum- does that sound right?

taxtp

err....gives you wings ???

directly from the source could be dangerous 

Nice work guys.

I have been slacking off with my Grippen build, yes you guessed it - it's the filling and sanding that gets to me LOL!

Hoping to get ready for painting soon, if I can find the willpower....

Theuns

err....gives you wings ???

the yellow bull 

HiVance,

I'd like to change my entry to a 1/72 Hasegawa Draken, rather than a 1/48 one please. This is it.

Cheers

Tony

Well the Flygvapnet operates off of highways routinely...

VanceCrozier

looky what I found:

Black & white paint applied to an airframe that was sent to a testing unit of some sort, easier to evaluate film that way...

looky what I found:

Black & white paint applied to an airframe that was sent to a testing unit of some sort, easier to evaluate film that way...

The Navigator

Need milk?

Milkshakes even?

Need milk?

Great, now you have me thinking about Oreo cookies... :0

Nice Vance, though the black planes with the white in the middle make me think of an Oreo cookie...

wow, I wish Maestro Models would release this sheet in 1/72, I love those two black & white options!

nice pictures Vance 

Alright, I found a little time last night to clean up some of the weapons on my Gripen. This is a pair of anti-shipping missiles if I'm not mistaken:

I've got undercarriage & weapons from 3 different kits that will all need white paint. I'm planning on prepping all of these & spraying in one shot sometime on the weekend. (That's the plan anyway!)