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| Normally I don't build 1/48 planes, this would be my fourth in 45 years. I got it as a prize in a competition back in 2017 and decided to build it. Well it is 50 years since the first flight after all. |
| (Model finished 2023) |
| Awfully large but it is a good thing that it build in sections. |
| I am a little bit disappointed. There are no belts for the seat and the canard flaps that folds when the landing gear are out can't be built folded. Instead the large doors for the main landing gear can be built open while thay are closed on the real plane most of the time. |
| I tried to add instrument decals on the panel but they were rather transparent even on white base. They didn't stick well to the panel either. |
| I forgot that I had bought the Ram Air Turbine so I had to adapt the fuselage after I glued it togeth |
| A small motor tool was a good help. |
| Things are getting in place. |
| I didn't want to spend any more money on aftermaket parts for it so I added belts made of paper. |
| Now the black handle at the top of the seat is what is left to build. |
| I needed to cut away a piece of the spine to get the two fuselage parts to join. |
| The gun pod gave me problems. It wouldn't fit. It would end up to far to the rear or the air intake would be to far forward. It took me awhile to realise it was the absence of the filling between to fuselage half's that made this. I had to modify the air intake in the end. |
| Some more putty and sanding is needed before I can glue the fin in place. But it is beginning to look like a plane now. |
| The RAT was finally glued in place and painted. I've been on a prototype spree in 1/72 so I thought that I would keep it up with this one as well. |
| I have continued slowly on the build. The rudders on the canard wings were replaced with the rudders from the Airfix kit. |
| The bottom part of the intakes will be altered as well. |
| Part of the intake was cut off |
| and replaced with a piece from Airfix. It would have been a lot easier to do if I had found out that I needed to do this before I glued the intakes to the fuselage. |
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I made some bilges under the canards. Of course I just found out that the pylons under the forward fuselage has to be removed and replaced with the Airfix pylons. Another thing I noticed to late. The reason for many of the changes I do is because I am backdating it to one of the prototypes not that the kit is wrong. | ||
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| Then I noticed things below the jet exhaust that needed to be rebuilt. |
| I rebuilt the nose with parts from an Italeri Gripen. |
| The canard wings with the Airfix parts added. |
| As this is one of the prototypes it is a bit odd. A Jaktviggen with the "small" engine. |
| So it is a mix of the AJ and JA versions. |
| The new nose is in place. |
| The blob at the rear had to be replaced with a hatch but here is were it came to an halt.. |
| Now 2023, six years later I decided to finish it and get rid of it. |
| I smeared paint on it and is now trying to get the last pieces in place. |
| I run in to trouble. During the six years of sleep the "windmill" got lost so I have to do a quick fix. |
| But I have now started on the decals. |
| Finally I got this out of my work bench. |
| I don't know why I can't find any joy building 1/48. |
| I had to fight the impulse throwing it in the waste basket just to get rid of it. Well I did finish it. Now I can get rid of it. |
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The end of the story. I brought it with me to the C4-open in Malmö last weekend. This is Viggen 37-5. The fifth prototype built for the developement of the Attackviggen. Later it was rebuilt for the developement of the Fighterviggen but didn't get the longer engine. Even later it was used for test's of the JAS 39 Gripen radar and the nose was changed. This is what I tried to build. |
| What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas they say. But now it is: What happens in Malmö, stays in Malmö. |
| Stockholm December 26, 2023 |  |
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