Made a start on the Draken. I've got most of the parts off the sprues. The Pavla ejection seat is being painted now.

Cheers

Tony

Hi Everyone,

I'm finally starting my Hasegawa 1/72 Draken. Hopefully it will be as nice as BSY's. The first job is to shoehorn the Pavla resin bang seat into the cockpit, it doesn't fit of course. I've shaved a bit from here and there and just squeezed it in. The only other aftermarket I plan to use is a masking set, to save some time. This kit is one of Hasegawa's combos, contains two models. I'm unsure whether to do the pretty box top aircraft or a camouflaged Finnish one. I'll work it out as I go.

Cheers

Tony

bsyamato

Slow updates  

Added two bars in the windscreen (not painted ,direclly in black sprue), added hud, not the original, anda glued the windscreen and painted frames 

At the next!

Beware the DRAKEN!!!!

Nice work there on the windscreen and HUD!

Slow updates  

Added two bars in the windscreen (not painted ,direclly in black sprue), added hud, not the original, anda glued the windscreen and painted frames 

At the next!

Classic camo on a classic interceptor!

Yeah, you have to love those B I G day-glow numbers...

Somethin similar.. with bnumbers for myopic people :)

www.x-plane.org/.../saabj35j.jpg

Right now painted the clear parts frames

Looking good bsyamato - what markings will you be using on the Draken?

Looking very nice indeed! I need to get back on the ball, Yamatos gonna pass me on my build!

Bsyamato: Looks like she's coming right together there!

Here the pictures, sorry for the delay 

Air intake detail at the bottom of vertical rudder

AB tunnel

Closed the engine air intakes

All main pieces on , after a layer of thinned grey i started to rescribe or adjust lost panel lines

At  the next :)

Actually all main surfaces are on, started to rescribe ruined panel lines, soon updates :)

Nice job Bsyamto - the Draken was one cool looking aircraft.

I have the viggen too but already collect needed references ,thanx at all Sub 

AB cone glued after a weathering

At the next!

lol, are you sure you didn't pull that book out of MY closet? I know I have it in there somewhere!!!

On a side note, I went digging through my closet looking for research material for a different project, when I came across an old book I had forgotten about: The Great Warplanes of the 1990's by Bill Yenne. It has some interesting stuff on the Viggen, and I know a few guys here are planning to build one. If anybody is interested, drop me a message!

Budd

Loving that double-delta!!

More shapes 

Exhaust and final part of Afterburner are reproduced by the kit but... not so the final conduct, then a scratchbuild of it is needed:

glued in the place (after i painted a first layer of grey)

Nose on, on the left side of the fuselage a step between halves was corrected with a plastic stripe and putty

on the other side more precise surfaces

and now wings!

At the next!! 

The Draken is finally taking shape! Good to see that cockpit work in place bsyamato!!

Dang, Yamato! Nice detail work on that cockpit!

Yep! some masking on the Viggen Cliff 

Nice piece Sup 

And me too finally some update!

Painted the cockpit and scratcbuild rudder pedals 

Some color on the seat too, notice painted warning plates.. tonight i realized that decals included this ones 

Weighted

Under pressure glued fuselage 

At the next and keep build Swedish!

Wow, looking good Budd - you'll have to post the finished pics in a separate thread, titled "single-engined B-17", and see what kind of comments you get! ;)  I'll have to check out the vids when I get away from the office, love seing these old machines in action.

Soooo the F5 special is out now?? I'd been looking for it. Too be honest it's not a plane I've had much interest in, but there is an RCAF connection, and they were used by an interesting collection of countries... just "odd enough" to catch my interest. Maybe I'm getting sucked in by the advertising for that 1/48 kit that Kinetic released!

Not sure I'm the right guy for an F5 Group Build though. :(

Why have I not thought of that?? Well, it's a little late for this bird, but next time, I shall remember that!

So here it is all put together. Next I get to do some filling and sanding on some pretty gnarly wing and float root gaps:

I got kinda bored tonigh and started playing on Youtube. Thought I would share these gems with you folks! The first vid is a modern one of the fully restored and flying Saab 17 in Sweeden. The second one is mostly historic footage of them in action. What an incredible machine! Watching these, I can just imagine seeing and hearing it in real life. Sorry, I can't seem to figure out how to embed these, just copy the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSEJe4GhwQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rKokrXWRoU

And on a completely non-Saab related note, I was killing time while my car got worked on today when I came across this:

For those who don't recognize it, it's the same magazine that did the special Saab issue about a year ago. And let me tell you, this issue is incredible! It covers in detail the origins of the F-5/T-38, various countries that have used it, special roles such as the aggresor squadrons, air demonstration teams, and even specialized versions like the F-20 and X-29! This is an incredible magazine and I believe I will be getting an electronic subscription...

Hey Vance, what do you think about hosting an F-5/T-28 GB next? :D

Budd

Have you tried IPMS Stockholm's website/blog/forum ??? They may or may not have walkarounds or pics, but they certainly have Swedish modelers who may have access to something not showing up in n English-language google search.

I got that magazine too, it really has had the best photos that I can find, and that's not saying much. They have been helpful, but I am still surprised by the almost complete lack of anything on Google.

Oh well, artistic liscense it is!

Budd, I'm not sure WHAT I have off-hand, but I can take a look in that Saab anniversary magazine that I had picked up, see if there is anything useful for the B17 in there for you. Gamera... I'm buying stock in masking tape manufacturers! Patience buddy, done right, that "lakes" camo is very impressive.

Budd: Yow, sounds like fun! 

I did get some masking done, I don't think the reference I found was entirely correct but seems close enough... 

Assembly is going slower than I anticipated due to continuing to find problems with the kit that I didn't spot before. For one thing, after fiddling with it for a while, I finally decided to simply discard the rear facing machine gun, because fitting it into the cockpit simply requires too much modification. Again having no decent reference photos, and realizing that it would be harly noticable through the closed canopy anyway, I just decided it wasn't worth the bother. I'm sure they didn't always have it onboard anyway.

Another fun one is the fact that while the weapons bay doors will at least fit snuggly where they are supposed to, the doors for the tail wheel don't even come close. The place where they go is very shallow and small, and the doors are comparatively large and bulky. I attempted to shave them down at first, but it got to the point where any more and they would have shattered in my hand. So I applied a few dabs of filler putty. I have never had much luck with filler putty, but I am much more comfortable with filling sanding sticks than I used to be, so here's hoping it works out!

Also, my regular glue ran out, and the only stuff I can find here is the non-toxic kind that takes forever to dry. It has made attaching things much more interesting.

So I keep saying this to myself, but I SHOULD be able to put it all together tomorrow...

-Budd

Soooo true!