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Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 15th, 2017, 6:08 pm
by Spaceowl
This is going to be where I park the pictures of any builds I'm doing, starting with this rather fetching Heller Saab J-29 Tunnan, the 'Flying Barrel' which will be in UN colours from the Katanga War in the early sixties. Recently I bought the DP Caspar decal set on this strange and largely forgotten war after reading Andrew Hudson's
Congo Unravelled, and I'm going to start working my way through it starting with this classic French plastic.
So far I'm at this point:
and it was almost trouble free. This stopped at the point of getting the nose on, as you can see a fair amount of filling, sanding and rescribing was involved, but I suppose without that sort of thing we're not really modellers.
Wings are going on tonight; watch this space.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 16th, 2017, 2:06 am
by Clashcityrocker
Nice start.
Nigel
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 16th, 2017, 5:36 pm
by Stamford
I did this one a few years back. It´s a cool little plane!
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 16th, 2017, 9:55 pm
by celt
Well tidy start.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 17th, 2017, 10:54 am
by Spaceowl
A little more progress:
Hardly any filler needed on the wings, which is quite impressive on plastic from 1979. Either it's trying to lull me into a false sense of security or it really is a good kit.
Onto the tricky bit now; masking and painting.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 17th, 2017, 6:52 pm
by billyb_imp
I rather like the look of that Saab
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 18th, 2017, 11:20 pm
by Gregers
That's starting to look sweet. I like the Tunnan. One of those aircraft that sort of looks ugly but sort of doesn't.
All the best.
Greg
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 18th, 2017, 11:34 pm
by Old_Tonto
That is a fat little fecker. Seems appropriate.
Welcome back.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 19th, 2017, 7:22 am
by iggie
Gregers wrote:That's starting to look sweet. I like the Tunnan. One of those aircraft that sort of looks ugly but sort of doesn't.
All the best.
Greg
To me there's no 'sort of'; it's ugly......
But a good looking build none the less
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 19th, 2017, 11:57 pm
by Spaceowl
Old_Tonto wrote:That is a fat little fecker. Seems appropriate.
Welcome back.
Cheers Ian. I love you too, mate.
So, further progress:
Until someone who specialises in the Swedish AF tells me otherwise, this is the scheme that the Swedish UN complement wore in Congo. Although they arrived in theatre in NMF (another project for another day), some were overpainted from local paint stocks to which the sand coloured 'worms' were added later. Pretty, eh?
Watch for more updates soon.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 20th, 2017, 11:59 pm
by Spaceowl
All wormed up!
Time for varnishing.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 21st, 2017, 5:32 am
by Clashcityrocker
Very nice.
Nigel
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 21st, 2017, 7:18 am
by iggie
Interesting scheme
I've always thought it looks like a guppy!
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 22nd, 2017, 11:59 am
by Stuart
Very cool - I'm currently building the 1/48 Hobbyboss kit of this aircraft - I was thinking of doing the same scheme.
Re: Spaceowl's Roost
Posted: July 22nd, 2017, 2:46 pm
by Spaceowl
Sir T wrote:Very cool - I'm currently building the 1/48 Hobbyboss kit of this aircraft - I was thinking of doing the same scheme.
It would probably work better in 1/48th - my airbrush won't go fine enough to manage the worms so I had to brush paint. On the original they were just random lines sprayed over the camo with a full size airbrush.