The Swedish Barrel; Airfix (Heller) Saab S.29C Tunnan

[Luka]

Seasoned green things Britmodellers!
Because this old Heller kit was reboxed by Airfix I managed to squeeze this one into the AllthingsAirfix group build. It may have helped that the GB was hosted by a Swede though..😅 
Basically this model was built OOB, with a full rescribe and some improvements here and there.











Cheers,
Luka

Edited December 20, 2022 by Luka

[Spitfire31]

Very neat Caesar indeed! The Heller kit is basically quite nice and you have shown it from its best side.

 

The olive/blue-grey camo was applied toward the end of its photo recce career. Approaching the mid-60's, it was realised that the S 29C performance was falling dangerously behind contemporary opposition fighters. The camo helped some at low level, but in 1966 the 'Spaningstunnan' (Recce Barrel) was retired from the F 11 Wing, while soldiering on for a number of years as a target tug.

 

Nice modelling!

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

[stevehnz]

That looks super Luka, the rescribe has sure helped it & the colour scheme is a winner in my book. 👍

Steve.