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Happy New Year everyone! I sat in the cockpit of one of these beauties a few months back which inspired me to pick up Special Hobby's JA-37 1:72 kit shortly afterwards at the Scale Scotland model show. I decided to model Red 12 of F16 Uppsala Wing from 1992 (Upplands flygflottilj). I think it's a great kit to put together (I don't know if it's got innaccuracies though) and I didn't have any fit issues at all. It's an OOB build. The splinter camo... Well, I thought how hard can it be to cut my own masks?? Yeah, it was utterly beyond me! After several nights of torture and still with small pieces of masking tape stuck to my hands (and likely everywhere else) I surrendered and ordered the Maestro models mask set. This masking set was for the Heller kit which has a shorter fuselage but worked reasonably well. I numbered each of the 'splinters' to make the reattachment between coats easier. I'd been beaten by the masking before - not this time Miss Viggen! It's airbrushed with MRP-005, MRP-175, MRP-177, MRP-178, MRP-179 and Tamiya XF-16. Waiting on the highway: Without the background: Cockpit from the real thing (taken in the Aeroseum near Gothenburg): Thanks for looking. Stay safe everyone and happy modelling!
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This is the brand new 1/72 Viggen from Tarangus/Special Hobby. A great kit, shapes are spot on, fit is great and details are excellent. I decided to build a JA 37DI, the ultimate Viggen, as it looked like just before retirement in the early 2000s. WIP thread here. Some grey Viggens sometimes used exhaust cones from scrapped green camouflaged ones: Most decals are from the kit, but some are from an old Flying Colors Viggen sheet. Great details OOB, landing gears are just as detaliled as if they were in 1/48. I can really recommend this kit, it is a really enjoyable build! I am already looking forward to the Special Hobby releases of the other versions.
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Saab 37 Viggen first prototype - Airfix 1/48
Bjorn posted a topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Since I am almost exactly as old as the 50-year celebrating Saab Viggen it was pretty logical to start a few Viggen builds this year. My plan is to build the first and the last Viggen, and I am currently working on a Tarangus JA 37 that will become 37449, the last Viggen. But here is the first one, the first prototype in its first configuration that flew for the first time on February 8 1967: I used the old Esci/Airfix kit which of course might sound rather stupid... But I had one in my stash, so it was cheaper to build it than to buy a new Tarangus. Many modifications had to be made. Most visible are the flat back - the typical Viggen "hump" had to be removed - and the V-shaped canards. The huge pitot tube was made by Maestro models. The wing dogtooth also had to be removed and new radar warning recievers(?) were scratchbuilt (under the wings, later they were integrated with the wing). I also had to make new panel lines and modify the fin and main wheels (both are from the Tarangus kit). I used the Tarangus cockpit, a seat from Maestro and a scratch-built instrument panel. The Viggen prototypes had a mostly green cockpit, like Draken, but unlike the rest of the Viggens where it was light grey. Scratch-built FOD covers were necessary to hide the horrible inside. Cockpit: Decals (apart from the roundels) were printed on my own printer. I painted it with Vallejo metal acrylics. Thanks for watching!