Sam

I agree, wait for the Kitty Hawk. Or any other new tooled offer.

I built a greek viper with Have Glass. I tried out several „smoke“ paints. Some of them are slightly purple-ish, some of them grey-ish, with different grades of covering power. I will check which one I used and get back to you, if you‘re interested. There is quite a difference in appearance depending on the lighting. But it‘s the same in real life:

Did you not run into alignment problems with the wings swept back? I had to abort my build due to this and I am beginning to think it‘s due to my own stupidity…

I tried to fix up the Italeri. If you want the wings swept back stay clear from it, the pivot points seem to be wrong and will result in a MiG-23-wing. Other than that it can be done, with a lot of surgery, scribing, scratchbuilding and Resin parts. I binned my project because I glued the wings before realising the wrong alignment, salvaging the resin bits for a future build with a different kit (hello Airfix, if you read this). Backdating the Revell GR.4 seems the best option. Eduard has a great big sin set for the armament of the GR.1. - And inflight is the best way to showcase an aircraft, but that‘s my personal opinion.

You mean the new-tooled 1/48 they will release this year together with a Jaguar as surprise? 😵‍💫😜

Congratulations @Ian, extremely well done! The weathering is absolutely wonderful, in the right spots, smoothly blended but still well pronounced where it needs to be. Splendid!

🫡 👍🏽

I know it has been done before but I love the sound: BBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTT! Eduard is going to be happy to sell all this weaponry if this GB gets through 😂

Would like to show up at the merge with a NAWDC / NSAWC Viper or the Top Gun Hotrod from a Tamiya 1/48 boxing. 🌞

Looks like I got posted to this GB for my first ship tour 🫡. All the modern pointy ones are possible, however I may choose the E-2C Hawkeye with the 8-blade props.

It‘s exactly the „light“ part of the reading I am mostly interested in! Want to build Tamiya‘s Cat shot Big Fighter with all the lights on. One day, when I have the skills. Later. When my grandkids (not even born yet) will be grown-ups 😂

Congratulations @LorenSharp, this is an exceptional result! I love it 👍🏽I missed out on this build log, enjoying it right now.

I decided against the forest. The difference in scale and the forced perspective I wanted to create just do not work as intended. Anyway, regular stand as usual for the Viggen. Quite a number of things to improve on withthis build (I am not going to point them out), but I hope you like it nevertheless:

I am currently working on a southern swedish forest the Viggen will be flying over I really enjoy building trees!!!

Thanks for asking @Aigore! Yes its very alive and updates will come soon!