Well Johan,how’s going your Gripen?
mmaker - To be honest with you, I haven´t started yet. I´m finishing my X-35 for the stealth GB this weekend so maybe I´ll start later this week. Any news on your Draken?
Hahahah!
Stopped too.
I make a B-58 Hustler from Italeri and yesterday started a Eurofighter!
Planned a ghost camo for Eurofighter as a Hellenic Air Force.
Well, I started a little today. I cut all the parts I´m not using from the sprues and selected AMRAAM:s and launchers and sorted the parts in different bags. I´m also studuing some reference material now.
What you think about a Swedish Eurofighter?
Any idea for camo?
I guess that if Sweden bought the Eurofighter they would paint it simular to the scheme on the Gripen. There are different schemes during development but they are all variations of gray. It sounds like a great what-if.
Here´s three different gray schemes
This is the latest with a light gray underside and radome with a smooth curved line. This is the scheme I´m going to use, along with the gray insignias.
This older shceme features a black radome and the lighter gray is on the underside only (But not on the underside of the canards).
This is a very erly Gripen with an all-over gray.
Hope this will help you, it would be great to see a Swedish Eurofighter.
Hey all -
Finally got internet hooked up in the new house (and FSM loads a LOT faster on DSL than it did on 56K!!!).
I have 2 Swedish kits in the stash - a Grippen and a Viggen, both in 1/72. I’m not QUITE ready to build yet, still more unpacking and setting up to do, but hopefully soon!
well guys if its all right i would like to join this gb to. i will do thier f-18 hornet with the markings of of the tiger meet they had on thier f-18s[:D][:D]thanks rob
Ga.modler - You are most welcome.
well guys i have all the stuf i need now for the gb. i got my decals in yesterdays mail from two bobs and i am itchying to start this swedish tiger.[:D][:D]
Sounds great!
I´ve made some progress with my Gripen, I´ll be posting pics soon.
and I’ve made a bit of progress unpacking my house - and ordered a spray booth from MicroMark (so I don’t have to paint in the garage clear on the other end of the house). Hopefully in another couple weeks I can get to work…
Ohhhhhh this group build is intruiging!! Now if only I could find a 1/48 SAAB, I’d be set!
whens the start and finish date for this gb
I started in April and runs to the end of the year, but it´s not written in stone. Start whenever you´re ready and if we all need more time then we´ll make it sot of open ended.
I’m in, I found a 1/48 Airfix Viggen online last night and ordered it right up. Should be here in a week or so!! Sorry I didn’t catch this group build in April, not sure how I missed it!!
kik36 - You are most welcome!
kolja94 - Glad to hear that you´re setteling in. Is it a bigger home?
Ga.modler - I found a pic of a F/A-18 with Swedish markings in a book. Is this the plane youre building? I´m sure I will some day…
I decided to add this PE set from eduard to my flying Gripen. I also decided to parallell-build the Gripen twin-seater, (also from italeri) straight from the box (almost)
The Eduard set.
I glued the bay doors shut for the flying single-seater.
I glued the fuselage halves together in an early stage becouse of an ugly seam in the rear cocpit wall.
The air inlets are a bit shallow, so I opened them up. This is the two-seater, but the one-seater got the same treatment. I´m going to paint the interior black so that you can´t see a wall from the outside, only darkness.
Much bigger, with a garage and 1/2 acre of land. And, most importantly, I own it. The hobby room/den is smaller (normal-ish bedroom size for here in the US) but that’s OK, there was a lot of open “wasted” space in my old one.
So here’s what I have: Revell 1?72 JAS 39 Gripen and Hasegawa 1/72 AJ-37 Viggen. Initially I was thinking just out of the box for both, but thought I’d query the group about any aftermarket goodies out there… any ideas?
well as soon as i get thrugh with my f-18d. i will sart on the swedish f-18 in tiger meet markings. also i will be doing something i have never done. i will be building 2 at one time. the other one is a canadian f-18 hornet for thier gb[:D][:D]
gilmund, yep that is the swiss f-18 i am doing but not in those markings
here is the swiss tiget meet markings that i am going to use for this gb. you gotta see all the data markings i have to put on this bird. both birds have a ton of data markings to go on.[:D][:D]