A-51 Svenska flygvapnet Sjörövaren

[Gondor]

 Looking around my model room earlier this week I decided to peek inside one of the older Airfix Buccaneer kits I have in the "To Hand" stash. Bad move as the box contained a new engine front and intakes for the kit. So after a little hacking I decided that erhaps this would be something to follow through with. I had to drop a message to the GB moderators as the cockpit bathtup had been removed from the upper half of the fuselage but that was all the work carried out. Thankfully, or maybe not, the amount of work was deamed minimal and allowed to enter! This is now another build with a deadline 

So the work so far



The upper upper fuselage is the one for this entry along with the cockpit tub while the lower upper fuselage is for my 45 Squadron entry which apart from the seats will be mostly OOB.



This is the replacement intake section. I have checked scalemates which had no record of it so I have no idea who made it as there are no instructions or packageing left for it.

Gondor

[perttime]

Interesting...

On the name: I hope Pellson doesn't have to correct me, but the Swedish fighter names always seem to use the definite form, like The Buccaneer. So this would be Sjörövaren, with an n stuck at the end ... like Gripen, Viggen, Draken, Lansen and Tunnan.

[kerick]

Looks interesting! Carry on!

[Gondor]

Interesting...

On the name: I hope Pellson doesn't have to correct me, but the Swedish fighter names always seem to use the definite form, like The Buccaneer. So this would be Sjörövaren, with an n stuck at the end ... like Gripen, Viggen, Draken, Lansen and Tunnan.

Not doubting you, however this is not a Fighter but an Attack aircraft.

Gondor

[buzzbomb]

If this is going into a  splinter scheme.. I am so looking forward to this. Something I have had on my back burner build for a some time but never got around to it

[Pellson]

Interesting...

On the name: I hope Pellson doesn't have to correct me, but the Swedish fighter names always seem to use the definite form, like The Buccaneer. So this would be Sjörövaren, with an n stuck at the end ... like Gripen, Viggen, Draken, Lansen and Tunnan.

Not doubting you, however this is not a Fighter but an Attack aircraft.

Gondor

Pertti's got a point. All Swedish fighter aircraft, whether fighter-interceptors or fighter-bombers have been named in definite form. The Lansen (the lance) and Viggen (the thunderbolt) both started off as attack aircraft, then evolving into other functions, f.i.

Re Sjörövare(n), you could also use the Swedish direct translation for Buccaneer, being Buckanjär(en), both the English and Swedish words being derived from the same French origin.

Regardless of above - I'm much looking forward to follow this build!

[Gondor]

OK, I have hopefully changed the name to a more correct word. I did originally think of doing the aircraft in Feilds and Meadows, but with my recent problems with masking pulling off paint and decals as well as haveing to do at least three colours it's not going to be that, nor plain green.

Gondor

[The Wooksta!]

What tape are you using for masking?  Since I switched to Tamiya and Kabuki tape, I've had very few issues with either paint creep or paint lifting.

[Wardukw]

This is gonna be one well worth watching 👀 👌
As for masking ...Tamiya works for me very nicely and you've seen what I can do with it .
I was lucky to be given a large 35mm wide roll of masking tape and identical to Tamiyas tape.
That's worth hunting down Al ..it's gonna be used for my Ukrainian Harrier.

[NARSES2]

Yup I'm a Tamiya man when it comes to tape 

[PR19_Kit]

I didn't know anyone else made any, tape that actually works anyway..................

[Pellson]

OK, I have hopefully changed the name to a more correct word. I did originally think of doing the aircraft in Feilds and Meadows, but with my recent problems with masking pulling off paint and decals as well as haveing to do at least three colours it's not going to be that, nor plain green.

This is fine! On the other hand - it always was. 
Re camo - the field-and-meadows is a proper PITB, so I'm with you. May I suggest the venerable "Draken" scheme consisting of Humbrol 77/Humbrol 116 over Humbrol 175, or equivalent? After all, that scheme lived from the mid 60's all the way into the 90's, and even later on some Sk60/SAAB 105's.

[Gondor]

OK, I have hopefully changed the name to a more correct word. I did originally think of doing the aircraft in Feilds and Meadows, but with my recent problems with masking pulling off paint and decals as well as haveing to do at least three colours it's not going to be that, nor plain green.

This is fine! On the other hand - it always was. 
Re camo - the field-and-meadows is a proper PITB, so I'm with you. May I suggest the venerable "Draken" scheme consisting of Humbrol 77/Humbrol 116 over Humbrol 175, or equivalent? After all, that scheme lived from the mid 60's all the way into the 90's, and even later on some Sk60/SAAB 105's.

Thank you Pellson, mostly for the Humbrol paint numbers as I was thinking of this or close to it. Field and Meadows if good for land attack but this will be anti-shipping which needs a different colour scheme.

Gondor

[Pellson]

OK, I have hopefully changed the name to a more correct word. I did originally think of doing the aircraft in Feilds and Meadows, but with my recent problems with masking pulling off paint and decals as well as haveing to do at least three colours it's not going to be that, nor plain green.

This is fine! On the other hand - it always was. 
Re camo - the field-and-meadows is a proper PITB, so I'm with you. May I suggest the venerable "Draken" scheme consisting of Humbrol 77/Humbrol 116 over Humbrol 175, or equivalent? After all, that scheme lived from the mid 60's all the way into the 90's, and even later on some Sk60/SAAB 105's.

Thank you Pellson, mostly for the Humbrol paint numbers as I was thinking of this or close to it. Field and Meadows if good for land attack but this will be anti-shipping which needs a different colour scheme.

Gondor

A two-colour scheme was tested on the Lansens, only using Hu77 over Hu175. A bit boring, but almost RW.

[Gondor]

Managed to get the motor tool out for a bit of etectric mayhem on the Bucc, the new intakes now fit comfortably

Viewed from the top



and from the underside



The unside of the upper fuselage, around the cockpit got cut back a bit too



There was excess plastic due to the way that Airfix had moulded the cockput as part of the upper fuselage so it had to be cut back a bit. More may go later.

The sides of the fuselage had to be modified a bit so that the new intakes fitted as can be seen here



I will probably work on detailing the cockpit interior seeing that I have the old Airwaves etch brass set.

Gondor