Bjorn Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) I started this build a few years ago, and progress has been extremely slow. My ambition is to build Draken number F 10-52, the last blue/green Draken in Swedish AF. Most of the airframe is really weathered, apart from the nose section and the exhaust cone which were modified and re-painted when J 35F became J 35J. Most of the modified Drakens were painted grey, but a few remained blue Airliners.net image removed Solo's great work on this individual gave me inspiration to start again, I am using Aires resin cockpit, exhaust and wheel wells, and parts of Eduard's exterior photo etch (but not all, I started with the Big Ed PE set on another Draken, but almost went mad... But first, the cockpit. Seatbelts are still missing, but the rest is finished. ...and suddenly the whole model was finished and ready for painting! I started with the extremely dirty underside: And then the upper side. In the beginning, Drakens were olive drab and dark blue. However, after a while the blue turned lighter and also a bit green. After 10-20 years the green almost turned turquise. So after priming with Tamiya aluminum, I started with some pre-shading and then a thin layer of the blue: After that, I added spots of thinned light grey and black: And after that, some salt... Almost finished... After that, I painted the olive drab in almost the same way. Edited February 9, 2015 by Greg B Copyrighted image 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 very nice! good start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Nice work! Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Bjorn, very nice to read this. What colours did you use for this turquise? And what are you going regarding undersurfaces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Bjorn, very nice to read this. What colours did you use for this turquise? And what are you going regarding undersurfaces? Thanks! I used a mix of Gunze H46 Emerald Green, H54 Navy Blue and some Tamiya light blue. For the darker areas I also mixed in some black. The under surface was extremely dirty on these Drakens, due to oil leakage and missile launching. A bit odd is that the left side actually was dirtier than the right one. So I will add a lot of more dirt after the decals, using dry pastels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 So I am waiting for next steps. I like your Draken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Thanks! Here is a link to a picture of the original aircraft how it looked like in the mid-90s. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sweden---Air/Saab-J35J-Draken/1177319/&sid=6eefc744beb1a40c823951725db25c91 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I think this is really difficult model and especially painting. Those all discolorations, fading ect. - have you got any ideas how to achieve such effects? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 I think this is really difficult model and especially painting. Those all discolorations, fading ect. - have you got any ideas how to achieve such effects? I have some ideas... But this is what makes this one so challenging! I will use a mix of airbrush, fine sanding and dry pastels. And improvisation. Next step is the air intakes. According to Hasegawa they are to be painted aluminium. However, this is wrong. They were made from glass-fibre and painted grey, first a darker primer, then a lighter with a touch of aluminium. First, I painted them light interior green: Then i hand-brushed them with lines and spots of yellow, olive green and dark green. This was sanded a little, and sealed with a coat of Johnsons, which was polished. After that, I sprayed dark grey followed by light grey with just a little aluminium: This was followed by sanding the paint until I got the worn effect with visible glass-fibre that I wanted. When I was satisfied, the front parts were painted black. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Nice. I think maybe another layer of gray colour (small stains), a little darkner, would be good. And then again some sanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 Thanks! Yes, maybe. But I will also use some dry pastels, so first I will see what the result of them will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 So you will make those intakes as ugly as real ones. I admire your job. Have you got any photos of under surfaces of this particular plane? I wonder how are you going to paint and weather it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 10, 2015 Author Share Posted February 10, 2015 So you will make those intakes as ugly as real ones. I admire your job. Have you got any photos of under surfaces of this particular plane? I wonder how are you going to paint and weather it. Thanks! No, I have not photos of the underside of this one, but one of F 10-57 which was a sister plane, just as old as 52 and painted the same way. The photo is taken about at the same time (mid-90s), so I will use it as a guide and hope that this one was just as dirty. But it was probably even dirtier since 57 was not as weathered as 52, which makes it a bit less interesting to me. I found a similar photo here: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10223186b/30/1# Another favourite is 02 with a white panel and completely re-painted fin http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/2/7/4/1812472.jpg I also considered 54, a really nice weathered one actually even better than 52, but I lacked a few decals for that one. I will try to find them and do another one, maybe in 1/72. http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/0/1/7/2265710.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Landing gears and wheels finished with PE from Eduard and a few scratch-built details. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James G Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Nice work! I feel like I didn't give my best effort when building this kit, but you are doing it full justice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Great build Bjorn, Excellent choice of subject matter and very well realised in kit form so far. I really like your attention to detail with the finish (intakes especially) and I'm keen to see how this turns out. regards, Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Just superb! Extremely nice details, beautiful landing gear. Few questions: a) What is this green colour? Could you tell me its number? Could you tell something about scratch-built parts? What did you add to kit's gear? c) Please tell me how did you make those nice looking clamps for cables/wires? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low flyer Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 That undercarriage looks amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 This looking great, nice work. Got a RF-35 on the future build pile,mine will be a green Danish bird. Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 After wash and decals: "52" and "10" are included in the box, however I find them a bit too thin. So I replaced them with digits from RBD decals. Hasegawa's Swedish roundels are too turquise, so these are from Flying Colors. Rest of the decals are from the Hasegawa sheet and from my decals spares box. Soon it is time for more fun weathering! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) Soon this bird (or dragon...) will be finished. I discovered that the white animal on the fin was not a (rather strange-shaped) bear, as I first thought. It was a wild boar - which it did NOT look like: Luckily I found out that I had the right decal, on a sheet from Euro Decals that I bought a few years ago, but had completely forgotten: (The bubbles on the numbers are caused by Micro Sol). Next step was to finish the landing gears: Mounting the angle indicator from Master was easier than I thought thanks to a tip from a fellow modeller: Some other details; like a pitot tube from Master and a ladder from Eduard: Ejection seat from Aires, now with belts, and canopy with some extra details: Next step was weathering, using dry pastels. As I pointed out before, these Drakens were extremely dirty. This is actually not over-weathering... The upper surfaces was weathered mostly with some (extremely dry) dry-brushing with black and a little aluminium. Edited March 5, 2015 by Bjorn 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Very, very nice model. And really beautifull details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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