Aigore Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanx Chuck :D I should be coming back to this project during this spring at least :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Harrier/Viper Fan Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Holy smokes Batman we have a Viggen, looking amazing there, i did'nt even know there was a 1/48 kit. Gonna have to keep an eye open for one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Resurection... Time to breathe some life into a dormant project....Viggen, awaken! It´s butchering time! I have to make room for the Two Mikes belly insert... marking the plastic to be removed.. Then I brought fourth The Dremel with a cutting disc and sliced off the offending plastic! I came up with a clever idea as well, when you buy the Draken pitot tube set from Maestro you get two sets of three pitot tubes; one long for the nosecone and one long and one short for the vertical stab. Now it happens that the long one for the vertical stab is perfect for the nose pitot tube for the Viggen! Clever eh? SO I glued it on to the Pisco nosecone...looks smashing! I then painted the fan front with Alclad White Aluminium... And glued the Maestro PE IP to the Neomega IP shroud... ANd finally I glued in the fanfront and the new resin nose wheel well into one of the fuselage halfs. Next I´ll start work on the RAT my friend Juan designed...gonne look so great! When the RAT is doen I can glue in the cockpit and close the fuselage :D CHeers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mareku Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Aigor, your build is great again I love thees two Jakt Vigggen you build before. They are fantastic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Thanx Mareku :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 You´re in luck, today I have two updates for you! The first one is all about RAT.... We have RAT... I started with priming the innards in Alclad grey primer/microfiller. Then I shot my usual Alclad white aluminium... Now some detail painting...I åainted the drums with Tamyia clear yellow to get the gren yellow metallic look they seem to have according to refs (great work on the details Juan!) Juan who made this set told me that you have to add additional details yourself because of casting technique issues, he has made holes where aditional pipes should go. It´s no big deal to add these pipes, some lead wire, or in my case, thin cable will take care of this easily! Just be sure to check the refs when you´re at it. SHould look something like this: The pipes are then painted in aluminium and some details are added with clear blue and clear red, to the bottom right there´s some dials, the faces are white and there´s a black frame around each face. A bit of clear coat and then a wash to grime it up a bit... when the wash is dry I´kk flat coat it and install it into the fuselage. Now for the second update... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) Trim that body! I glued in the cockpit into one of the fuslage halfs...starting to amass quite a bit of resin here :P I drybrushed the IP coaming and added a HUD lens of a drop of Tamyia clear yellow.(doesn´t look that yellow on a black background tho ) Yup I will have to cut off the assend of the matter :P Like so... The Airframe is looking quite short right now :P I used CA-glue for glueing the cockpit and IP coaming in place then I just taped the fuselage halfs together for now. As you can see there is a slight fit issue here....My fault tho since I didn´r dry fit the fuselage halfs before I glued the wheel well in place....we´ll see how I´ll sort this :/ That´s all for today ! Cheers! Edited March 23, 2012 by Aigore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jinxter13 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 A master craftsman at work, step back, get your popcorn, grab a seat and enjoy the show. See Janne this is why guys like you rain on my parade . I love this plane, but no kit maker makes it decent enough to go at it without using a ton of AM, and you are doing a very masterful job on this build. I'm taking notes on techniques, I can use on other projects. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 Thanx for the support Clif :D Gonna need it on this endeavour :P Feels like I´m walking on a mine field... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tanis73 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Thank's for this wip of the viggen, beautiful sweddish beauty. I've the same in waiting, but in 1/72, it's too big :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 Thanx Tanis :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chukw Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Aigore! This is one fine thread to discover by chance on a Saturday morning- cheers! Beautiful work here- and glad to see you'll be posting more soon. chuk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 Aigore! This is one fine thread to discover by chance on a Saturday morning- cheers! Beautiful work here- and glad to see you'll be posting more soon. chuk Yup, I thought some hack and slash modelling would be up your alley, Chuk :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 (edited) By The Power of The Dremel!! Todays update begins with the RAT innards finding their spot...Looks nice eh? I then glued the fuselage halves together, it took some convincing....glue...tape...glue...tape and so on :P And the big gap at the wheel well? Well I used the old proven method of violence and superglue to force it to obey!...and some tweaking with a knife :D Over all this resin the new belly piece has to fit! Here we have this Two Mikes belly piece, and guess what? I don´t think MIke had the mastro resin fanfront nor the Neomega cockpit in mind when he designed this piece! All this goods has to go! SO I brought fourth the power of the Dremel again and a hot tip for you out there... if you´re considering the madness of building a vIggen with all the goodies and don´t have a power tool, don´t get the fantfront! You´d be spending etermnity sanding it by hand! Quite alot had to come out! But I got it glued in place..sure there´ll be gaps but nothing I can´t overcome with a bit of putty! Ands it does wonders for the sillouette of the Viggen! Great work Mike! Well then, I believe I have a bit of puttying ahead of me and then I´ll begin scribing the panellines! CHeers! Edited March 24, 2012 by Aigore Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KRI76 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Another super-interesting build! Are you planning to rescribe the panel lines? /Kristian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 Thanx Kristian :D There, edited the end text on the update, yup I´ll scribe the panellines and not rescribe them :P Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JesniF-16 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wow Aigore, not much styrene left on the airframe after your done with it... I can see why you delayed this project for so long, but you sure make quick work of the fuselage As usual the details look totally excellent. Good luck sanding /Jesse Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 THanx JesniF-6 :D Heh most delay´s been because I´ve waited for resin parts to be available :P Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mareku Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Aigor you are doing great Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 Thanx Mareku :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 what color are you going to paint the plane in?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 what color are you going to paint the plane in?? All AJ´s where in splinter cammo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Putty putty putty... The airframe is sanded and scribed...so far so good :D Now for the intakes... I begun with puttying the around the fanfront and then sanded it smooth.... Then a coat of White aluminium.... OK I´m almost ready to install the air intakes now, just gonna fiddle a bit more here...there´s a bar crossing the notch in the intake lip, made it from some 0.4mm piano wire. The Two mIkes intakes are in place..... we have some gaps here :P First some plasticars strips to deal with the level differense and the bigger gaps... Then a thick slab of putty on that! I guess there´ll be more sanding tomorrow...... Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Troll Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I T ' S . . . . A L I V E . . . ! :-O Jorgen "Troll" Toll Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 I T ' S . . . . A L I V E . . . ! :-O Jorgen "Troll" Toll Yup, just had to put a few amps through it and it had risen again :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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