LOL if get another viggen for the same price, surely will do :)

Looks good Bsyamato! A twin Viggen would be cool!

The kit one is wrong  but you know me, i first cut all and after i start to think about to resolve the things  my cutter are fastest than my brain..

More than a twin viggen i see a really good idea for a sci-fi modding (naturally on a new kit)

All the forum changed, wowow!

bsyamato - lol, I saw that last picture and thought for a moment that you were going to build a "twin Viggen"!!!  What are you doing to the exhaust area??

here some cut about the viggen!! the back area need some care ,engine exhaust are wrong

in this way the viggen remember to me the buck rogers fighter!

for this night is all, going to the kitchen and after will locate the bed!

Theuns: Thanks!!!!! I have no idea when I'll start on the Texan/Harvard though. You can't beat advice on detailing from actual hands on experience 

Cliff

@Gamera

If you need pix of T-6G, let me know A mate of mine is doing a ground up rebuild of one (to add to his other 5!) and I regularly work and do painting on them. :-)

I need to do some sanding on all the seams on my JAS 39, but it is way to cold for that now (that's my story an I'mm sticking to it LOL!)

Theuns

I love it it looks full of pieces and these greenhouses!! i prefere this plane to the sparviero :D 

Thanx Cliff

Sure!!!

Tommy didn't take the sprues out of the bags so I didn't open them, hope you can make things out.

Gamera

Bsyamato: Really? I built one or two Supermodel kits back twenty years ago and haven't seen them in ages. Had no idea the stuff was getting rare though. Tommy actually had three of them in his stash, I just bought this one because I liked the camo scheme.

Yes Cliff :) the supermodel is out of business from more time than the esci. The new good sparviero from italeri is based on the old supermodel old mold updated. Right yesterday finished my first supermodel :) the re-2001!!

Why don't post some sprue shot of the good alcione?

yep, contents say there will be some civilian stuff in there as well. Stopped at the local Indigo, no luck yet. I keep checking every couple of days, surely they won't be receiving 100s of them & I want to make sure I get mine. (That being said, they have about 10 special issues dealing with the Bristol Blenheim...?)

Looks like a good issue there Vance just from the cover

And oh yeah, as Big-G says you can never have enough floatie things.

Oh, something to keep your eyes open for. I've picked up their Mosquito and Harrier issues, very good stuff. Hoping it arrives on my side of the pond shortly:

http://www.aviationclassics.co.uk/news/issue-16-sabb-contents

YES! Floats!!!

Bsyamato: Really? I built one or two Supermodel kits back twenty years ago and haven't seen them in ages. Had no idea the stuff was getting rare though. Tommy actually had three of them in his stash, I just bought this one because I liked the camo scheme.

Vance: Yeah, I'll definatly build it in honour of Tommy, and I'll be building the floats version since it strikes me as the 'coolest' looking of the different aircraft although the one with skis is pretty cool too.

Gamera

Ok guys, here's what I bought out of Tommy's old stash, including the Marivox kit.

Well if you build the B17, Tommy gets a share of your badge right?  Hmmmm - a floatie version in the background?? That Cant model is interesting too, always like the 3-engined Italian bombers. I've got a Sparviero on my "wanted list"...

excellent booty Cliff how you can find there the alcione ?? it's rare even here

Ok guys, here's what I bought out of Tommy's old stash, including the Marivox kit.

Ahhhhh - progress! Good start fellows. I ended up working on the Flanker this weekend, will soon be prepping that and the Gripen for primer.

Theuns & Bsyamato: Great work guys, coming along nicely

Since Owl posted the 'Forces of Nature' GB I should be joining you guys in about two weeks (July 1st). I've decided to go ahead on the Viggen and leave the Saab B17 to later.

Theuns started?? nice work on the cockpit and decals will be made a really cute piece

i'm collecting resources for the viggen starting soon but here actual status

Edit:

founder older pictures of the saab before the cuts:

Theuns the gripen seems fit good

Here is the basic airframe joined together, lots of work needed to make it smooth :-(

Theuns

I made a little progress on my Grippen. It is not the best fittling model, with the wingroot needing some "effort" to try and stil right.

Simple kit and it's just a pitty I can't use the missles as the SAAF uses IRIS and not Sidewinders, Anyway here "inland" they rarely fly "missled up" LOL!

The decals for the SAAF is actually nice, exccept for the eagles inside the "coockycutters" that all look to their left. Half should look right. I got other decals though.

This is just a simple build, nothing special about it.

Theuns

The Navigator

Here's a review:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1997/09/stuff_eng_kit_marivox_b17.htm

 

Cool thanks!!!

Only now that Owl is kicking off her GB I'm cross-posting the Viggen too I'm caught between the two aircraft

Here's a review:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1997/09/stuff_eng_kit_marivox_b17.htm

The Navigator

Gamera-

Is that the Marivox kit? If so, I've read good things about it. 

YES! That's it, should have written down the company name before I left the house the morning. Yes! Marivox is the name, box says they're a Polish company.

Definatly nice kit, good sharp molding and piles of options.

Oh yeah, B17- sorry I'm not that familar with the aircraft so I messed up the designation.

It's this one here.

I'll try to get up a photo of the box late this weekend or early next week. Not a big fan of 1/72nd kits but this one is pretty nice esp for limited run. Comes with a choice of wheels, floats, or skis and a BIG sheet of decals for about a half-a-dozen nations that used her.

I'd like to get the kit built sometime in any case as a bit of a tribute to Tommy since he never got to build her.

Gamera

Well at our club meeting last night one of the guys brought by several boxes of models left to the club by former member Tommy Carr who passed away about a year ago. Tommy was a big Saab groupie, aways buying their cars and one box was full of Saab models. So I picked up a 1/72nd Gripen (I think the same kit as Vance''s) and a 1/72 Saab 17 dive bomber/scout by some limited run company I've never heard of before. Both look like nice kits, I'll try to get photos of the boxes up late this weekend.

Vance, if I get some progress done on some of my other stuff I might start working on the Saab 17 if it's ok with you while still holding off on the Viggen.

A B17?!?! Go for it, I can't say I've seen one kitted before. Lots of glass to mask in that one!

Well at our club meeting last night one of the guys brought by several boxes of models left to the club by former member Tommy Carr who passed away about a year ago. Tommy was a big Saab groupie, aways buying their cars and one box was full of Saab models. So I picked up a 1/72nd Gripen (I think the same kit as Vance''s) and a 1/72 Saab 17 dive bomber/scout by some limited run company I've never heard of before. Both look like nice kits, I'll try to get photos of the boxes up late this weekend.

Vance, if I get some progress done on some of my other stuff I might start working on the Saab 17 if it's ok with you while still holding off on the Viggen.