Paramedic Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 I´ll do more if neededJust not very engineer´d so you need to specify where and how maybe.. Rainer Hoffmann, MARU5137 and Derek B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, Paramedic said: I´ll do more if neededJust not very engineer´d so you need to specify where and how maybe.. Thanks for the offer, I certainly have a lot of questions. Cheers Rainer Derek B and MARU5137 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aigore Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Sacred feces!!! That build thread is pure Viggen porn! Outstanding workmanship and true modelling! I have to go pick up my jaw....dropped it somewhere. Rainer Hoffmann, MARU5137 and Derek B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted November 2, 2021 Author Share Posted November 2, 2021 12 hours ago, Aigore said: Sacred feces!!! That build thread is pure Viggen porn! Outstanding workmanship and true modelling! I have to go pick up my jaw....dropped it somewhere. Thanks a lot! I am honored when a Viggen expert like you says that. Cheers Rainer Aigore, Derek B and MARU5137 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aigore Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 Too bad there wasn't any splinter scheme Di's well, besides the prototype Derek B, Rainer Hoffmann and MARU5137 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted November 3, 2021 Author Share Posted November 3, 2021 (edited) Dear fellow modellers, here is a small update. Before skinning the top of the wing i want to install the MLG well side walls and some of the details. The idea is, that I can install all the bits and pieces from below and above as long as the upper skin panel, that covers the well is not yet in place. So I started building the MLG well. The pics show the part that goes into the fuselage and that will be all but invisible because the main gear door on the fuselage opens only during retraction/extension of the main gear (and for maintenance, obviously). I'll still do some of the details, just to hone my skills and to see what I can do and, probably most important, what I cannot do. If the wells turn out ok I'll be happy enough, if they don't I won't care as nobody will ever see them. Except you guys, of course Here are the pics: It's a combination of aluminium sheet, brass nuts and washers and styrene, whatever seemed best for the task at hand. The stiffeners are not glued yet, because I want to paint them seperately (they are light grey while the rest is olive green). After painting it looks like this: I painted the parts with MRP-217 (325M Olive Green) and MRP-220 (032M Grey). Next up is some light weathering and matt coating and then the plumbing and wiring can begin. Thanks for looking! Cheers Rainer Edited November 5, 2021 by Rainer Hoffmann Typo corrected Christoffer Lindelav, Greg W, LSP_Kevin and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 This is modelling porn it's as simple as that If this is what the bits you can't see look like, I can't imagine what those bits you can will look like.. I bow in front of you Rainer, simply magnificent Peter MARU5137, Rainer Hoffmann, Starfighter and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aigore Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Yet again I'm struck with awe! Such lovely lovely details! Rainer Hoffmann and MARU5137 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Good Lord Rainier!!!! First I have seen of this. And a project long in the making!! Following! MARU5137 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Thanks a lot, gents. 18 hours ago, airscale said: This is modelling porn it's as simple as that If this is what the bits you can't see look like, I can't imagine what those bits you can will look like.. I bow in front of you Rainer, simply magnificent Peter Peter, I'm afraid the visible bits won't look any better ... 17 hours ago, Aigore said: Yet again I'm struck with awe! Such lovely lovely details! Thanks again! 17 hours ago, JayW said: Good Lord Rainier!!!! First I have seen of this. And a project long in the making!! Following! Yes, more than 8 years now and the roll-out date has been postponed again ... Cheers Rainer brahman104, JayW, MARU5137 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel111 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Incredible! Did you pick those parts off of the real deal in the museum? Cheers, Marcel MARU5137 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 10 hours ago, Marcel111 said: Incredible! Did you pick those parts off of the real deal in the museum? Cheers, Marcel Ha ha! The problem actually is, that the pics I work from are from a museum bird. And I don't have many pics of JA wheel wells. Unfortunately it seems, that the MLG wells of the different Viggen sub types differ quite a bit. So there is a lot of artistic license involved. Cheers Rainer MARU5137 and Marcel111 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Nice fit. Sincerely, Mark Rainer Hoffmann and MARU5137 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 Dear fellow modellers, the second update in one month! This must be a first in this thread Looking at pictures of the right MLG well of a Jaktviggen you could get the idea that the guys at Saab had a couple of meters of pipes and tubes lying around that they just put in some unoccupied space in the MLG well. It looks messy (sixties style ... ). So does my rendition of the MLG well. And, what's more, unlike Jetmads I got the spacing of the stiffeners completely wrong. Sigh. Too late, I won't change anything. As I said in my previous post, nothing of this part of the MLG well will be visible once the main gear door is installed. And that's a good thing. Anyway, here are some pics: I'll install some more pipes and then I will proceed to the parts of the MLG well, that will be visible. As allways, thanks for looking. Cheers Rainer Grunticus, MARU5137, scvrobeson and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoffer Lindelav Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 I am glad you're making more frequent updates, guess you're inspired by the Jetmads builds going on in this forum? Keep up the good work, I'm watching. /Stoffe MARU5137 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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