Rainer Hoffmann Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 G'day Gents & Ladies, long time no hear, but here I am with a small update. It looks like an awful lot of work, actually. Great job as usual, Rainer! Thanks for your kind words. Actually it has taken much too long to do this gun pack. It turned out to be quite a complex subassembly. Only just seen this....and w o w. Thanks a lot, Radders! Always appreciated. Well, after I found some new (at least new to me) photographic evidence about the gun pack, I had to reshape the air scoop in front of the pack quite a bit. It's now ok, but still not correct. But I'm disinclined to completely redo the air scoop... Anyway, I finally primed the gun pack. It is still missing some details, especially the gun muzzle, but I will only add those after I have installed the pack on the fuselage (that, however, will have to wait many moons...). Here are some pics: And of course I couldn't resist to put the external tank temporarily in place on the centerline pylon: I'll put the gun pack aside for a while and start something else. I should do the intakes, but I'm afraid they will be a PITA, so I'll probably do something else first. I'm inclined to tackle the thrust reverser section next. We'll see. Thank you for your continued interest in this rather long term project. Cheers Rainer HerculesPA_2, Hardcore, Derek B and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Oh man, this is modelling on another level, just amazing! Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girlscanplay2 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Keep up the great work Rainer!! Looking great!! Teresa :-) Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 (edited) Stellar work ! Hubert Edited February 12, 2015 by MostlyRacers Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 GREAT WORK, RAINER!! Sincerely, Mark Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Jaw dropping stuff, really incredible scratch building. One of my all time favourite aircraft Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripaman Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Hi Rainer, very nice workmanship, look forward to your next installment. Regards Richard Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Great to see another update, Rainer! Stunning as usual! Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoffer Lindelav Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Thanks for the update on this, it´s always nice to see. I´m starting to have fantasies about doing a splinter camo on a 1/24 Viggen... But a 1/32 Viggen would do just as well. /Stoffe Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) Thanks a lot, ladies and gentlemen, for your kind words and your continued interest in this rather slowly progessing project. It really helps me a lot to carry on! I've put the gun pack aside for the moment and started researching the thrust reverser section of the Viggen in more detail. This section is going to be quite a challenge for me and I'm not yet sure how I'll proceed. But here are some sketches of the thrust reverser. And while drawing these, I again had to admire the ingenuity of those swedish designers. The reverser is a marvellous piece of engineering. Ok, here are my "production" drawings. The developed views (is that a correct technical term?) of the inner faces of the reverser and of one of the reverser petals are at the bottom. I'll start with that part and then I'll try to figure out how to do the outer "hull" of that section. It will be tricky, that much is obvious. But I'm sure it will be a lot of fun. Thanks for looking Rainer Edited February 26, 2015 by Rainer Hoffmann Christoffer Lindelav, Lee White and Greg W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 This is so impressive all round Rainer, not only can you make stuff out of styrene that looks like a professional aftermarket resin addition, but also your technical drawings are very very good too. What program do you use to make them? Cheers, Craig Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Amazing work and speed doesn't matter ... Keep 'em coming Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 This is so impressive all round Rainer, not only can you make stuff out of styrene that looks like a professional aftermarket resin addition, but also your technical drawings are very very good too. What program do you use to make them? Cheers, Craig Craig, I did these drawings in Adobe Illustrator, so they are not strictly "technical drawings". But some of the illustration tools are quite helpful even for this sort of drawings. At the moment I'm trying to get to grips with CorelCAD, but I don't seem to fully understand some of the CAD concepts yet despite the fact that I do have some experience in 3D modelling (Cinema 4D). speed doesn't matter ... Peter Ah, wasn't that "size doesn't matter"? Cheers Rainer Greg W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Rainer Absolutely Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal_Belford Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) Rainer GEEEEZ......amazing stuff....im impressed....im no a jet fan...but hell i know when i see skillfull work going on....and this is one.... Yep you got my attention. Also i guess you know swedish language, if not. Bränsle=Fuel but yes i know that you know that,,,,but for them others that dont know and follow this thread..just a notice. swedish is weird language lol... keep them posts coming...ive got my evening novels to read from now even smal ones if you can.....this is really exiting and im very curious to see next post. /Mal Edited February 26, 2015 by Mal_Belford Rainer Hoffmann and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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