Saab JAS-39 C Gripen
As by the construction of Ju 88 of Dragon, or by the construction of the Mosquito wings with separate wingtips of Tamiya, one must deviate from the construction manual to avoid unnecessary repairs. Also with the Gripen one should stick together body halv
As one can see, I have already cut out behind the cockpit the cover of the pressuration/air-conditioning unit.
I can recommend the cockpit of Aires very much. The details are not only fine but also perfectly faithful. The seat belts are added as photoetched parts. On heating up the photoetched parts, the seatbelts can be brought very well in form.
I can recommend the cockpit of Aires very much. The details are not only fine but also perfectly faithful. The seat belts are added as photoetched parts. On heating up the photoetched parts, the seatbelts can be brought very well in form.
I can recommend the cockpit of Aires very much. The details are not only fine but also perfectly faithful. The seat belts are added as photoetched parts. On heating up the photoetched parts, the seatbelts can be brought very well in form.
The avionic bays of Aires which should be accommodated later behind the fuselage nose. I like the bright colours with those the modern airplanes nowadays are painted.
Please, do not surprise. . . .but I never work really strictly after construction manuals. Mostly I build complete sub-groups sometime occasionally. According to mood. . . as well as with the weapons. The Maverick missiles are from Eduard. Actually, alrea
Before fuselage halves are clued together, must be still built the inflight refueling pipe, front wheelbay and airbrakes bays..
In the meantime, fuselage halves have been glued, and the pressuration/air-conditioning unit have been built up after photos from plastic sheet. One finds high-class photos in the second book of my abovementioned book list.
In the meantime, fuselage halves have been glued, and the pressuration/air-conditioning unit have been built up after photos from plastic sheet. One finds high-class photos in the second book of my abovementioned book list.
In the meantime, fuselage halves have been glued, and the pressuration/air-conditioning unit have been built up after photos from plastic sheet. One finds high-class photos in the second book of my abovementioned book list.
Funny enough the Strut scissors at the Main landing gear are absent in the kit. Thus, then that one must build himself.
The small Stencil Decals on ready painted landing gears come from airscale.
The airinlet FOD`s are made out of "Aves Apoxie Sculpt".
The missing rivets in the rear were complemented with Rivet Detail Decals of "Micro Mark", available in three different scales.
There is on the left and on the right below the Canards, in each case a small air nozzle, don`t know which purpose they have. Here still unpainted.
Comments
12 17 April 2016, 11:03
Christian BruerHoly Moly what a promising start. The cockpit details look excellent as well the weapons. Top work Dirk 👍
17 April 2016, 11:20
Holger KranichYeah, Dirk is back! 🙂
And what a promising start! The seat harness looks absolute awesome!
18 April 2016, 08:28
Dirk HeyerMany thx for all your compliments.
I`ve added the second batch of WIP pictures. As above- mentioned in my introduction, the Kittyhawk Gripen is one of the best quarterscale kits of this aircraft type available, in my submission. Details, accuracy are far better as his obsolete counterpart. All you need is some experience and time for reflexion, but it is not a beginner model I must admit.....
I cannot understand the adulation of that old and pathetic Italeri kit I could read in some Review chats!!
It is a lot of work and patience necessary to achieve approximately the same surface quality as for the Kittyhawk kit, I don`t mention all the missing details. My brave friend Andreas Greim have built the old Italeri kit several years ago, and it is in all terms the best result I`ve ever seen of finished Italeri Gripen models in Quarterscale. He told me, talking about his finished model: "If I had had the choice I would rather have built the Kittyhawk model"
footnote: He ordinarily shrinks back from nothing........his statement says a lot 🙂
I have inserted the link to his model.
modellversium.de/gal..s-39-gripen-mpm.html
bye for now
Dirk
26 April 2016, 13:05
Mats BengtssonLooks very good so far Dirk 👍 It'll be very interesting to follow the progress of this build.
26 April 2016, 18:08
Dirk HeyerThx Bill.
Meanwhile the Gripen is finished. Sadly I didn`t take further picture of my WIP, so I´ll close this thread and show the pictures of the finished Gripen now.
The Gripen I`ve built is finished as s/n 39210 "500 Fh", tail number 210 in the typical swedish airforce colours. I used JPS Colors CN003 N.10 for lower surface and CN010 N.9 for upper surfaces. All inner areas like the undercarriage or the airbrakes are painted with Aero Master 1085 Overall Grey.
No. 210 is a so called PRI airframe for the C/D series, it is intended to be flown more frequently than average airframes in order to gain expierience from long term effects on airframe, systems and components prior to the rest of the fleet reaching the same number of flight hours. 39210 was flown well above 20 hours per month, this is (of course) unusually high.
During this time the aircraft had also undergone frequent service and repairs, and two 200 Fh overhaul.
Nine month after it had entered with F17 wing 1000 flight hours was exceeded on June 20, 2005.
(Source: Two Bobs, Colorful Gripens, 48-145)
6 May 2016, 17:20
Christian RistitsThis is spectacular, another masterpiece, the fotography as well!!!
7 May 2016, 12:59
Roland SachsenhoferJust wonderful, masterly built- and a real joy to look at! A masterpiece!
7 May 2016, 13:07
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It has been written a lot about Kittyhawks Gripen kit. Unfortunately, also of a lot of negative by which a wrong picture originates from this, actually, nice kit. It is a kit of the new generation, with the quite normal positive and negative points like all other new kits also. In the construction report I will mention the really relevant small mistakes I discovered.
I have used the following books as references:
Saab Gripen, Author: Gerard Keijsper
JAS-39 Gripen Swedish Multirole Fighter, Author: Slavomir Goldemund
Saab JAS 39 Gripen colours & markings, Author: Michal Ovčáčík, Karel Susa
How with most kits for different versions are intended, should one not work strictly after constructriction manual. As by the construction of Ju 88 of Dragon, or by the construction of the Mosquito wings with separate wingtips of Tamiya, one must deviate from the construction manual to avoid unnecessary repairs.
Also with the Gripen one should stick together the fuselage halves separately.
