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Yes the British green seems to have been all over the place while the restored Bentley's dark green has stuck in the mind of people. Then we have the Italian red race colour that often is stated to come from the winning Itala from the 1907 Peking to Paris race. For some reason it often has been stated as being red while the car was grey.

What is that. I never heard of a curtain so now you got me curious.

F-DCAL has some Concorde decals.

I would say that British Racing Green is short for British Racing teams use Green. 😀 I doubt that when Britain was issued green for their race colour, no shade of green was specified. I guess it is Bentley's fault that people associates the dark green to this.

Most people will not know. I knew it but I didn't notice it before it was pointed out. If you can live with it you should probably just leave it as it is. It would be sad to mess up the very nice finish that you have.

Nice to see this one here. I have built three of the IBG Swedish tanks but never finished painting them so I would like to give a small tip for building it. I found it hard to get the outer and inner wheels aligned. I used pieces of cardboard while the glue set to get it straight .

You have a nice collection of SAAB there. Only the J 21R missing for a complete Jet-set 🙂

Yes. It will probably be another military variant. The didn't even make a true passenger DC-3.

True but it doesn't make it easier to build a civilian Ju52. Even Luftwaffe used them during the war. Airfix has the chance to do it right. If they leave out the wing engines and make the whole wing corrugated they could add the engines separate both for the normal Junkers with engines pointing outwards and the straight mounted engines used in Sweden and South Africa. They would also have the wings for the single engine Ju52. Then using different fuselage parts they could do the military with cargo door. Postwar civilian were the cargo door has windows and prewar civilian and even the bomber version that I don't think has been made in 1/72 yet.

It is sad that there as no pre war civilian Ju52 kits in the 1/72 scale. There are an Italian, German and a Danish plane I would like to build but it is getting boring to remove the cargo hatch on the Italeri kit every time.

I don't think that you need to worry about the birds direction as it wasn't used on the fin in the 1930-40's. There would have been the German flag with the swastika. But the modern Lufthansa Junkers that flew until 2019 had the bird head pointing forward.

The JA37 has the same fin as the two seat Sk37 so that fin has been in the kit since the beginning. A sprue with the gun pod and sidewinders with the fuselage pylons were added to the JA37 kit.

Great.

Will look nice. I have a pair hanging under my prototype -2

I don't know but I would be surprised if that is was so. The Rb04 was already used with the Lansen that Viggen was to replace and in pictures from the official delivery of the first Viggens there are pictures of the available weapons in front of one plane and the Rb04 is present.

You are right. But those kits build in to the first three protoypes only.

Then Matchbox is the one you need to build. The AJ 37 is long out of production but it had Rb04 (and trenches for panel lines) 😀

It was a Delta 1E but with the configuration like the Gamma. Looking at pictures it seems like Gamma's was narrow bodies and Delta's was wider. The Gamma 1E seems to be just as wrong as the Italian red racing colour coming from the winning Itala in the 1907 Peking - Paris race.

Needed to add some 0,25 mm strips to get the air intake in line with the rest of the fuselage. Scribed some panel lines but will not restore them all.

https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/tunnan.html Pete is right. I have used parts from the Matchbox kit on my Austrian and Target Tug Tunnan's and in my current build in this GB.

I'm sorry to say that the Heller/Airfix kit is the wrong version for Austria. But not many persons will notice the difference. Only mad persons with an urge to use a saw (like me) will care. 😀

I don't think that it was able to carry them before the AJSH mod. but when I'm trying to find information I get conflicting results. Some say that the SH 37 could carry the Rb 04 and that after the AJSH mod the Rb 15. But looking at old pictures and sketches with the weapon loads for the SH 37, the Rb 04 isn't mentioned. Perhaps the safest thing to do is to build one from the F17 or F21 wing as they had both versions.

Thanks. You are probably right. I was wondering why it wouldn't show up. I'll follow your suggestion and try to fix this. Yes, the green Viggen cockpits are for the first two prototypes. From the third one the SAAB cockpits are grey.

I have the same kit so I'll watch this to learn more of it. Just some nitpicking: The SH 37 was not a maritime attack version. SH stands for Spaning Hav, = Reconnaissance Sea. It is mostly seen with the camera pod on the right fuselage pylon. But with the upgrade of the Viggen system in the 1990's it became AJSH 37 with the attack capability. But as theAJ, SH and their upgraded variants only differ by the markings on them as far as I can tell (some things in the cockpit may differ) there is no problems with your build. Edit There are informations that say that the SH 37 could carry the Rb04 and after the mod to AJSH the Rb15.

I think that the Typhoon and Rafale look clumsier as they are twin engine planes. I like your plane with that load.