new 1/72 Viggen

[iambrb]

Rut-Row-Raggie......me-thinks in March I will be buying this

http://www.hasegawausa.com/product-pages/hsgs2232.html

My question is, this is listed as 'Natural Metal.' That is odd, I would want to paint mine in thier incredible splinter camo. Would it be right to do so on this model?

see how kewl the camo looks in comparison to the natural?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSVHxT-ziM

 

[RichB]

The AJ-37 began its career in 1970 in natural metal. The splinter scheme began to appear in 1974-75 with most AJ-37's in splinter by 1980.

The JA-37 was in splinter from its introduction in 1979 until the introduction of the grey scheme in 1984.

Cheers,
Rich

 

[ij001]

I would guess that the NMF version is being released first to tie-in with the European airshow season. The Swedish 'Historic' flight operate a Viggen, Draken, Tunnan and take part in many shows over the summer. Hopefully there'll be follow-up SK, JA, AJ versions in due course.

Will I buy one ?, possibly if the price isn't prohibitive...

Ian.

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[Bagge]

With the bare metal version you have youre work cut out for you in painting it!

http://www.jn-photo.se/Browse-my-images/By-Type/SAAB/SAAB-AJ37-Viggen/

Will search a little more and see if i find something more, but for what i understand, is the first ones bare metal and then painted in camo and then the JA version repainted in grey because it was normaly operating on a higher alltitude and didn't need the green camo.

Greetings Mats

 

[helios]

That's one kit I would love to see re-tooled. Current Hasegawa tooling dates back to '68.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/1026495-hasegawa-02232-saab-aj-37-viggen