1/72 SAAB Viggen
prototype 37-4 |
Gallery Article by Björn
Bäcklund
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June 6 2014
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Sweden
National Day
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This is
the fourth prototype. The first prototype had the wings rebuilt to incorporate
the "saw tooth" but this was the first one to have it as built. It is
the Frog SAAB 37 Viggen in a Hasegawa reboxing. Since it can only be built as
one of the three first prototypes there isn't really any good reasons to buy it.
The Red Viggen boxing cost about 25 Euros here but the kit is wrong for those
decals. I bought it really cheap just for the decals without any plans to build
it but I changed my mind and decided to build it anyway. Not as the red one but
as prototype number four. Instead of throwing it away I built it as prototype
#4. I built the "saw tooth" from plastic card with new radar warners
on the wings.
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The two missing pylons on the fuselage was taken from an Airfix kit. I added a seat and instrument panel from Heller's kit. The Heller kit could be built as a two seater as well as an single seater so I had some extra seats and also used an instrument panel from Heller. I thought the end looked a bit bare. Just a wide and shallow hole so I added the exhaust from the Airfix Viggen Well as the 37-0 mockup don't have an engine, just an plain pipe I decided to make something for the 37-4 prototype. Now I slipped in a piece of the old Revell F-16 engine in the Hasegawa model to make it look like it has an engine while the mock up will just have an blank tube.