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This is the fifth prototype. I have built from the Hasegawa kit. The Hasegawa Red Viggen is the same one that was in the Frog boxes. It is of the prototype Viggens in the initial stage.
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| Since it can only be built as one of the three first prototypes there isn't really any good reasons to buy it. The Red Viggen boxing cost about 25 Euros here but the kit is wrong for those decals. I bought it really cheap just for the decals without any plans to build it but I changed my mind and decided to build it anyway. Not as the red one but as prototype number four. |
| I was going to build it as prototype #4 but as it turned out it became #5. I built the "saw tooth" from plastic card with new radar warner on the wings. |
| The wheels are still to come but it is getting ready for paint. |
| The two missing pylons on the fuselage was taken from an Airfix kit. |
| I added a seat and instrument panel from Heller's kit. The Heller kit could be built as a two-seater as well as a single seater so I had some extra seats and also used an instrument panel from Heller. |
| I thought the end looked a bit bare. Just a wide and shallow hole so I added the exhaust from the Airfix Viggen. |
| Well as the 37-0 mock-up don't have an engine, just a plain pipe I decided to make something for the 37-5 prototype. Now I slipped in a piece of the old Revell F-16 engine in the Hasegawa model to make it look like it has an engine while the mock up will just have a blank tube. |
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Since this and the Airfix kits are of the prototypes No. 1-3 the only scheme for them are aluminium. First coat of paint is done. I used Mithril Silver from Citadel (Games Workshop) It was very nice to use, and I feel it has the slight grey hue that SAAB used. (Note: Sadly, Citadel has changed the formula on their paints and I don't get them to work as well in the airbrush as before.) |
| As I am going to build the -4 again in a slightly different configuration I decided to change this model to -5. It was lucky that it had a different paint scheme for a while. |
| So, the old No. 5 is done. As you see it wasn't much that needed to be changed to have a slightly different version. |
| I am looking at the possibility of building one of the camera pods that was used during the test flights. I also noticed a bilge on the nose on a picture. |
| Stockholm November 14, 2013 |  |
Updated January 25, 2015 |
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