Tiger27 Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Been working on this all day today and she's done. The SAAB Viggen is an awsome plane and finally a decent kit is avaleble. Tarangus has as far as I'm concerned done a good job on this kit. It's not a shake and bake kit, not by a long shot. So I'd never recomend it for a modeller without some experiance. So what have I done with this one. I got a PE cocpit upgrade for this and I'd highly recomend it to everyone that conciders doing a Tarangus Viggen. It takes the kit to a whole new level As I got the Di - upgrade I had to ad some features and details. I've scratchbuilt 4 antennaes and the RWR, not the most challangeing scratch building I ever done. and also some minor upgrades in the cocpit. Also the cannard flaps has to be repositioned in the down position for a jet that's parked. I used Gunze for the main colors and varius from Tamiya, Vallejo , Citadel/games workshop for the rest. After spending a cupple of hours looking at Viggens from the last days of service I found that , 1: they where not armed to often, and 2: they looked filthy. with that in mind I had to go to a weathering extreme for a 48'th scale modern jet. Plenty of dirt and also miscolored panels. Weathering was done by airbrush effects and washes from MiG. Some decal details from the TwoBobs sceet was also used for this build. I modelled this as a jet from F17 at Roenneby AB in southern sweden. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy Snap Captain Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 (edited) Dude....NICE! I've just ordered one of these bad boys. Beautiful work mate. Love the dirty birds. Looks stunning! Edited April 10, 2015 by Crazy Snap Captain Quote Link to post Share on other sites
82Whitey51 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Nice work! I want to build one of these...but I'm going to have to do it in that splinter scheme. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Turned out really nice, fantastic even :D Really like the differently colored panels. Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiger27 Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Thanks dude :) I wanted to brake up the monotone grey and thus this is a nice way to to just that. And it's also quite common to se jets, espessially well worn jets , with some variations in the panels Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Nice looking machine indeed. Great job on the finish, not overboard on the weathering either. Me likey ! regards, Don. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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