Subject: Re: Gallery Article - Saab Viggen
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:02:05 -0800

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From: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:47 AM
Subject: Gallery Article - Saab Viggen

> Steve
>
> Another one for the pending tray!
>
> Saab AJ37 Viggen
>
> This is an old Esci 1:48 kit of the Saab Viggen that I purchased second
hand
> from a model shop in South London.  It resided in the pending stack until
in
> a spurt of enthusiasm I decided I needed a splinter camouflaged Viggen in
my
> collection.  On opening the box to check out the parts I discovered that
> there were two right hand side fuselage sprues and no left hand side!!
>
> What to do? - cannot take it back and no chance of getting replacement
parts
> from the manufacturer.  In a major lapse of sanity I decided upon the
> following:
>
> * Slice up one half of the fuselage with a razor saw into 4mm wide
> sections and re-assemble them in reverse using plenty of liquid cement,
> filler and wet-n-dry paper.
>
> I duly garrotted the fuselage and reassembled it on the intact right hand
> moulding.  The resultant object was worthy of display in the Tate Modern
> [Art Museum] but after much sanding and filling (and vice versa) it
> resembled the undulating curves of the Viggen.  The cockpit area required
a
> bit of care and attention, however some plastic card stock and more filler
> resolved this area of construction.  The remaining kit parts were all
> present and correct and were assembled as per the instructions.
>
> The splinter paint scheme was brush applied with extensive use of Tamiya
> masking tape but after the fuselage saga this operation was quite
> therapeutic.
>
> The kit decals were applied with extra details added as shown in a 3-view
> illustration of the aircraft published in the Encyclopaedia of Military
> Aircraft (Aerospace Publications).
>
> A satisfying end result but not something that I would wish to repeat - I
> now check the contents before buying second hand!
>
>
>  <<Viggen.zip>>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Darius Aibara
> TPS Consult
>
> Tel:  020 8256 4090
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>
> www.tpsconsult.co.uk
>
>
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