Augie Ooo nice Clifford very good start

Anthony Flanagan Well done on the cockpit! Looking forward to seeing how the rest goes.

Clifford Keesler Thank you very much Augie and Anthony.

Stephan Ryll Very nice cockpit Clifford

Slavo Hazucha Luckily the canopy panels seem to be large enough to keep all this eye-candy visible once put together... Are you going for open or closed? Thumbs up also for handling 2 different kits with steady progress at the sam time

Clifford Keesler Thank you very much Stephan and Slavo. I will be going for the pen canopy, with crew figures aboard.

Tim Heimer Looking good Clifford, keep it up!

Michael Hickey Nice pit.

Clifford Keesler Paint finally done. Will apply the clear coat tomorrow, after paint has cured overnight.

Slavo Hazucha Very nice NMF panelwork Clifford - Visible, but not overshot in tone or complexity - this is going to be one fine bird when all comes together!

Nathan Dempsey Holy cow Clifford! I'm gone for a day or so and you've got a lovely silvery bird replacing the black one.

Clifford Keesler Thank you Slavo and Nathan, your encouragement means a lot. I had to go up and paint the wing fences yellow. I forgot them. LOL.

Kerry Cox Clifford. Excuse my ignorance, but did you mention in one of your posts on 'Voodoo' what paints you were using. ? As the silver look really smooth and blemish free.

Clifford Keesler I used Vallejo's acrylic Metalizer paints. Aluminum, White Aluminum, Dura Aluminum and Tamiya Titatiaum. Plus Model Master Buffing burnt metal and buffing exhausht. Thank you for the compaliment. I bought Alclad's for it but chickened out. LOL.

Kerry Cox Clifford. Thank you for that info mate.
I am always wondering how others are getting such good results with the paints I have used and very rarely get as good a result like yours.
Alclad IS an acquired taste really.
The buffing metalizers are my staple fare when it comes to that true metal finish.
Cheers.

Michael Hickey She's starting to look good now Cliffy.

Clifford Keesler This one will have some external stores on it, if I can figure out what it carried. The kit only comes with 4 drop tanks.

Stephan Ryll Another gem left you bench Clifford
Great work

Nathan Dempsey Well done Clifford. Makes me want a Viggen for sure

Maciej Bellos Simply beautiful! Well done Clifford!

James C Fabulous result Clifford. Nicely done mate.

Clifford Keesler Thank you very much Konrad, Slavo, Hans, Derek, Stephan, Nathan, Maciej and James. Your comments are greatly appericated. It was a fun build. I will most surely will be doing another one. @Hans, almost all of the reference photos I looked at had the numbers on the wings in the grey scheme. I agree with Derek, I think they were for a training exercise. Most aircraft have the number in red on the tail though.

Mats Bengtsson Nice looking Viggen Clifford

The high visibility Dayglo identification codes were, as some have mentioned, used to enhance the flight safety during peacetime training. I think "Flygvapnet" (Air Force) started to use these Dayglo codes in the mid-late eighties.

Clifford Keesler Thank you Mats.

Hans Robben I am not debating the numbers being on the wings in the grey scheme, I think they should be (dayglo) orange. The only red numbers I have seen on Viggens were the tail numbers on the splinter scheme. But I doesn't matter as long as you are happy with the result.