SaaB JJ-37Z Viviggen (finished page 2)

[Tophe]

After truncation, this is close to completion:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5004_jj37z.jpg

[Tophe]

Today: not fun but little raw work (yesterday I added putty also on the tailplane and today I sanded it): 

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5008_jj37z.jpg

[Tophe]

Starting/continuing to paint parts separately:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5014_jj37z.jpg

[Tophe]

Going on slowly:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5015_jj37z.jpg

[Tophe]

Yesterday drying, close to completion:

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5016_jj37z.jpg

[Tophe]

The JJ-37Z Viviggen is finished!:


= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5022_jj37z.jpg
+ http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5023_jj37z.jpg

(Once: there were two copies of Saab AJ-37 Viggen monoplanes, before improvement)

[Tophe]

As usual, I must explain why my model is so imperfect: it is very very small!

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5028_jj37z.jpg
Sorry PR19_Kit, maybe this is the Viggen with the smallest span in the world... (far less than the palm of my hand)
Unless some Viggen has ever been produced at 1/200 or 1/350 scale.

[Pellson]

Its a magnificent piece of art 

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot!

[Tophe]

Usually, when a model was completed, I presented a 4 angles view (front left and right, rear left and right), but here I omitted the rear at first, why?
Uh, this was not beautiful, not simple turbojets but some unducted devices... And it was secret, I show you anyway now, courageously

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5032_jj37z.jpg

[Tophe]

The JJ-37Z two-seater was not ordered, the main general arguing "when I said 'I want a double delta' this was not simply meaning biplane delta, no, and I refuse asymmetry". So the JJJ-37ZZ three-seater (below) was built, and... 2,000 copies were ordered, no? Am I dreaming?

= link http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/IMG_5022_jj37z-mir.jpg

[zenrat]

Good job Tophe.

[kerick]

Wow, I never even in my wildest dreams would have thought of this!! Marvelous!
Also, I think the three seat version looks like something from Star Wars.

[Pellson]

These aren't just models, they're pieces of art! 

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot, you all!
I am happy this model receives positive comments, as this may be my last plastic model ever (before hospital then cemetery, maybe).
I appreciate the word « this is art » in its common meaning "this is beautiful and useless", thanks yes that was the goal, imperfectly done (my way).
Philosophically, I disagree about the concept of art (or "objective beauty", a million miles over the respectable "I like it"), and I have written a book about that, in French sorry but including an English translation, or if you want to see simply the illustrations (Mustang aircraft derivatives), it is available for free at  http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/BeauAero.pdf .