SAAB AJ-37 Viggen (I'm still here)

[eddiesolo]

Wonderful Francesco, I made a 1/144 Zero my Sweet and a landing craft with figures....never again, just finished a 1/76 Tiger tank and that was hard enough. You have given life to this small model and the paintwork is just awesome mate.

Si

 

[flyjoe180]

Nice work Francesco. What's wrong with the roundels? They look like Swedish Air Force markings. That would be correct for the Viggen.

 

[Ziper_it]

Thank you Dubster/Si/Joe.

Now that is almost finished I'm finding a lot of issues (but there isn't a joke saying: "my best model? The next!").

@Joe, the roundels are not correctly centered. I applied the ones on the wing bottom and it doesn't appear so evident as in the support paper so I may go on with them. I also applied the number on the vert stabilizer and forgot it. Result: I have half number now, the other half is on my thumb

Francesco

 

[Ziper_it]

Good afternoon,

almost done with seat and IP.

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Francesco

 

[Ziper_it]

Now we have new ventral pods and landing gear.

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Still missing one of the actuators, I will glue when mounting the LG.

Thanks for looking,

Francesco

 

[Fishpot11]

Awesome job so far!

I love it!

 

[Ziper_it]

Thanks Fishpot, I hope to post more pictures soon.

Francesco

 

[tanktrack]

very nice , great work in such a small scale -my eyes could not handle it :eek:

 

[Ziper_it]

Thank you mate.

Despite all the troubles (caused by me, lol) I call this done.

I'm quite satisfied about the result,

As you can see I had some troubles:

Canopy: to get the perfect fit sanded too much and made it worse.

Decal on the tail fin: remained on my fingers, had to reprint it (together with the ones on the gear door missing).

Fuselage: just discovered looking at the pics to post, almost invisible at naked eyes, we have have white stains.

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Francesco

 

[tanktrack]

very nice build

 

[papa 695]

Great work on such a small kit Fancesco looks fantastic

 

[Polux]

Great build Francesco, the panel lines looks fantastic!

A beautiful little model

 

[flyjoe180]

Super work Francesco. A lot of detail in such a tiny model, well done.

 

[The Migrant]

Very nice result, Francesco, I like the different panel shading.

 

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Francesco

That is simply incredible almost magical the way you've reproduced something so small with so much detail. I've just read back through the thread and the tiny detail work on the ejection seat is fantastic.

Well done on a miniature marvel!

Paul

 

[Ziper_it]

Thank you mates, really appreciate your comments.

I must admit finishing is not as good as expected, too many late interventions ruined it.

Francesco