IanHx Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 12 minutes ago, Andre B said: One Gripen with claws? Well done! Cheers / André Yep. Just couldn't bring myself to load training rounds on it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Nice!!! I found it in the gallery before I saw this, well done on completing her, and i agree she looks so much better with her claws!!! I'm a huge fan of 211Sq and have some stuff from them. One of these days I may even finish my 1/48th Best Choice (Italeri kit with full resin) models in 211Sq colours......though they are really horrible models! Thanks for joining use, was great to follow the build, I hope you enjoyed it..... and again well done on an awesome looking model! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 7 hours ago, trickyrich said: Nice!!! I found it in the gallery before I saw this, well done on completing her, and i agree she looks so much better with her claws!!! I'm a huge fan of 211Sq and have some stuff from them. One of these days I may even finish my 1/48th Best Choice (Italeri kit with full resin) models in 211Sq colours......though they are really horrible models! Thanks for joining use, was great to follow the build, I hope you enjoyed it..... and again well done on an awesome looking model! Thanks, and thank you for holding a group build with timescales long enough for me to finish something The main things I've learned from this build are that those smallest of fine-pointed Pixnor tweezers are very sharp, and to test out paint colours on something other than the model being built ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desert falcon Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Very nice and scary looking Gripen 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Nice Ian, the more I see of this kit the keener I am to visit mine sometime soon. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatol Pigwa Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 @IanHx Great Work! You are an Inspiration to me. Mind if I pick your brain over one issue though? In the instruction step 25 shows a hole to be drilled in the rear part of the fuselage. It also shows two alternate positions for this hole. Do you know what it is for and what the diffrence between those two positions is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, Marcin Kaminski said: @IanHx Great Work! You are an Inspiration to me. Mind if I pick your brain over one issue though? In the instruction step 25 shows a hole to be drilled in the rear part of the fuselage. It also shows two alternate positions for this hole. Do you know what it is for and what the diffrence between those two positions is? Thanks ! Thats a good question - not sure, probably for the aerial that goes on the underside near the rear. Didn't drill a hole, just sanded bottom of aerial flush , googled a few pictures to see if they could guide me ( inconclusive) and then went with whichever spot was easiest to attach it to ! (furthest aft, behind the wing trailing edge) I'm guessing that Czech and Swedish Gripens have this aerial in different places, but don't know which way round. If I had to guess why, I'd say it was to do with different electronics packages on the export aircraft. Edited April 20, 2020 by IanHx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 One thing I would say- if I had to build the kit again, I'd make sure I put the decals on the sides of the pylons on BEFORE attaching any stores - right fiddly to get them in place once the fuel tanks have gone on ! The one thing I did do that worked out well was applying the decals on the missiles to the obscured side before attaching missile to pylon. Much easier ! Didn't want to risk applying the decals on the visible side until after glued in place , just in case I was a little heavy handed with glue application.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 14 hours ago, Marcin Kaminski said: In the instruction step 25 shows a hole to be drilled in the rear part of the fuselage. It also shows two alternate positions for this hole. Do you know what it is for and what the diffrence between those two positions is? As Ian says, check photo's of the aircraft you're building. The hole is for the large blade aerial part B65. Revell show two different positions in the instructions and also mould a hole on the centreline level with the offste hole in the diagram. This centreline position is correct for my ETPS Gripen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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