Saab JAS-39 C Gripen
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Christian BruerHoly Moly what a promising start. The cockpit details look excellent as well the weapons. Top work Dirk 👍
Holger KranichYeah, Dirk is back! 🙂
And what a promising start! The seat harness looks absolute awesome!
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
Mats BengtssonLooks very good so far Dirk 👍 It'll be very interesting to follow the progress of this build.
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)
Christian RistitsThis is spectacular, another masterpiece, the fotography as well!!!
Roland SachsenhoferJust wonderful, masterly built- and a real joy to look at! A masterpiece!
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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.
