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Kyle DeHart
Built this one mostly on an out of state work trip. Finally remembered to get it out and finish it up.

Neil
Thanks Villiers de Vos

Treehugger
Btw, there are two tiny thingies at both end of the big wings. These are nav lights of sorts. Red on the left side, and blue on the right side, according to some paint chart I've seen recently.

Neil
Hi Treehugger ? kind of you to offer advice... Excellent build help indeed. Thanks for the tip ?

Neil
Thanks Petr 👍

Gary Victory
Looking good Neil.

Neil
Thanks very much Gary, kind of you to comment 🙂 👍

Neil
Thanks for commenting Flight Line Media 👍

James C
Looking good and following 👍

Neil
Cheers James 🙂

Neil
Thanks Roland 👍🙂

Jos Jansen
Oh wow...missed this one...following mate!

Andrew Horton
Wow! I look forward to seeing this build completed.

Mirko Römer
You can never have enough Viggens... 👍

Neil
Thanks Jos 👍 🙂 and Flight Line Media 👍

Neil
I agree Mirko! 💯👍

Konrad -
Awesome Neil!!

Neil
Hi Konrad 🙂 thanks very much 👍

Robert Podkoński
Viggen in yellow and blue!!! I love it! Watching with pleasure, Neil.

Neil
Excellent! Welcome aboard Robert 👍🙂

Neil
Hi all 🙂 I've finally got around to taking 'reveal' pictures for many of my previous build albums. I shall be updating each and including a few build notes in the description too - especially on the bits I messed up!

Here is my version of that 'Blu Petter' kit for the Airfix Saab Viggen completed in 2021. Excuses alert! It wasn't the best fitting kit, being an earlier Airfix effort.

Thanks to all who showed interest and liked, it's greatly appreciated 👍

Robert Podkoński
Looks perfect, Neil. Congrats!

Neil
Thanks Robert. you're too kind mate 🙂 👍

Christian
Hey Neil, really nice Viggen!

Neil
Cheers Christian! 😁

Jennifer Franklin
Very nice Neil, looks amazing.

James C
Congrats mate, that's a stunning finish 👍

Neil
Thanks Jennifer!

Spanjaard
very nice result in this old kit, love it.

Neil
Thanks James C 👍 and to those who've liked!

Neil
Thanks very much indeed for saying that Spanjaard, appreciate it 🙏🙂

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Wow! Great looking Viggen. Vibrant Blue and yellow

Neil
Thanks very much Robin! 🙂

gorby
WOW! Amazing result Neil.

Neil
Thanks very much Gorby. Much appreciated 👍

Gary Victory
Really nice finish Neil. That blue really pops..👍. Great work Sir.

Daniel
Quite an eye catcher, very nice work 👍

CaptGPF
Loved the coloring and restrained weathering. Very well done!

Neil
Hi Gary, Daniel and CaptGPF, thanks very much mates. Really appreciate you talented bunch commenting. I too love the kit colour scheme on this one and with hindsight; and an acceptance of some kit flaws, in my opinion it builds up into a pretty decent kit for an older Airfix one 👍 Thanks also to all those who've liked my efforts here too 🙂

Maciej Bellos
Watching!

Robert Podkoński
Me 2!

Guy Rump
Watching too! 👍

S B
Thank you, gentlemen! 👍

Robert
realy nice

Felix
1975! Gorgeous! I need to build a kit together with my wife, too. Great idea 🙂

Dave Burgess
This an absolutely TERRIBLE kit! It looks like a Chinese (Mister Craft?) knock-off of the Tamiya kit, complete with diagrams that look like they've been copied from the Tamiya instructions. Unfortunately, they didn't copy the parts! The kit quality was horrible, very little detail, and what detail was there looked like it was scribed in with a chisel. Landing gear struts molded into the L.G. doors, a laughable ejection seat that looks NOTHING like the depiction in the instructions, and really crappy soft plastic with a really rough surface. Still, I got it for the livery (Starblazers) and decided to do it anyway. That is, until I started decaling and found the decals SO fragile, that they shattered as soon as I laid them down and tried to position them. The four wing panel decals each had several cracks running through them even before I started to cut them off the sheet. I'm going to try to find a better Starblazers decal sheet, but quite frankly, it's not worth wasting it on this kit. Mister Craft's F-84G has been consigned to the waste basket. I won't be purchasing any more kits from this Chinese P.o.S. manufacturer! I'll get another Tamiya kit instead!

Erik De Smet
Yes, indeed a terrible kit. The kit seems to be a copy of the very old FROG kit, and the molds are still used and re-issued by several POLISH brands , including Mistercraft, Big Model etc. with equally poor decals. The Tamiya kit is by far the best, but is sold out almost everywhere. The Academy/Italeri is also good but hard to find, The heller kit is obsolete too. Have a look at my album : Thunderjet comparative build : Thunderjet comparative build | Album by opadesmet (1:72)

Colin
I feel your pain. Out of the two Mister Craft kits that I have tried (a Harrier and a SU-20), both had horrible mismatch between the instructions and the parts that were actually included. The Harrier kit even had the wrong amount of pieces advertised on the box (over 30 pieces less than advertised). You really get what you pay for with this brand.