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Before the first prototype was built SAAB made a wooden mock-up of the plane. I used the Airfix kit as a base for my model.
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| It was jacked up on some pictures, so I wanted jacks for my model to. But my test model became too high, so I needed to make some adjustments to the measurements before I started building them for real. |
| I added a piece of 0,25 mm plastic car under the air intake to get it in line with the fuselage. With a "rivet tool" I make rivets following the raised panel lines. Then I sand down these raised lines and just have the recessed rivets left. |
| A little warning about the Airfix 1/72 Viggen (or a tip) As I was trying to make a drop tank for the Viggen's looking at pictures only, I could not get it right. It turned out to be very long. Finally, I figured out what is wrong. The centre pylon with the little fin is mounted 11-12 mm to far back. If I move it forward I get the right length on the tank and the pylon fin is in the right place compared to pictures. Here is a pic of the centre pylon. The one at the top is a plane that I built as a kid that has the pylon in the original position. The bottom one is the one that I'm building right now. I filled the holes for the pylon in the fuselage and moved the pylon forward 12 mm. You can see a little bit of one hole at the rear end of the pylon. I think that I should have mounted it, so it would just have covered that hole. That would bring the pylon about 11 mm forward. (7/16"). With this fixed I can get back to the problem of the drop tank. |
| The longer fuel tank is getting ready. New fins are still needed. |
| I found some old wheels that looked OK, but they turned out to be too large. 11 mm in diameter when I needed 9,5. I decided to try and file them down to the right size. One is done, and I feel it wasn't too hard to do. They are only for the mock-up 37-0 and I had always assumed that it looked like the first prototype. But as I have found out it is different enough to be built in model. |
| New air outlets were made. The originals were a bit soft in details |
| A pic of the shorter tail. |
| I added some details inside the tail. |
| Doors on forward landing gear altered so that they point outward and got new landing lights. The bulbs under the front wings removed. |
| The centre pylon is moved forward, and a new longer tank has been made. The round intakes have been made longer I finished the new wheels and a green cockpit is ready to be mounted. I wonder what I have missed. It seems that I see something new every time I study the pictures. |
| I wanted this one shinier than the rest. So, I used a can of Silver Leaf from Tamiya. On this I added some panels of two darker shades of Citadel colours. |
| A new cockpit is in place. It will be a page about the paper cockpit separately. I added a stick from a Heller Draken and a joystick to the side panel. |
| So, a plastic model of the full size wooden model is finished. |
| The markings were a bit odd. The national insignia on the nose looks a bit oversized. |
| and the ones under the wings are not at the usual positions.. |
| I used clear lenses from Resicast for the landing lights. |
| Stockholm November 14, 2013 |  |
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