The Saab Channel at iModeler (3 articles)

The Saab Channel at iModeler

Items tagged with Saab
3 articles
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Airfix 1/72, 1971 kit, scratch – SAAB Viggen

by Manuel Magrinho on November 19, 2018
in Aviation — 11 Comments

[21Nov2018] Build update: As the 1971 decals weren't tip-top shape, I had to make my own. The tail ones were missing and I put them yesterday. Now she seems like the depicted prototype. Hi, Another vintage kit (1971)... The plane depicted h[...]

Saab J-21R

by Dmitry Stropalov on January 31, 2015
in Aviation — 11 Comments

One of the planes from the First Jets Era. J-21R was a jet-powered version of a J-21 propeller plane, designed in Sweden by Saab during WWII. A short-run kit in 1/72 scale by Special Hobby. It also has some resin and photo-etched parts. Kit pa[...]

Saab Viggen with “Splinter” camouflage

by Robert Bausch on November 26, 2013
in Aviation — 20 Comments

Many years ago I fell in love with Saab, both aircraft and cars. In September 1974 I flew from Beale AFB to Farnborough in England, in the C-141 support aircraft, as an Air Force artist covering the Lockheed SR-71 record breaking flight from New[...]