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The latest IPMS Israel meeting saw Niky Levy's fabulously built 1/48 AJ-37 Viggen showcased for the visitors. Niky built the model using Special Hobby SH48148 kit and the photographs which do the magic of teleporting us all to sunny Israel came via our mate Yoav Efrati. Our huge thanks to both these gentlemen.

   We really cannot thank enough all those modellers who have gone the extra mile in the effort to support our new facebook page which we had to set up when we lost the original one.  One of them is also Martin Benko, an excellent modeller and a member of KPM Prosek Panthers model club. Here we are thrilled to share with you one of his latest builds, Special Hobby's 1/48 AJ-37 Viggen (SH48148). Not just has Martin implemented some CMK detail sets, he employed his skills and added several improvements of his own. He kindly sent us photos of some other projects too, so stay tuned for more soon. Thank you Martin for the images and support.      We really cannot thank enough all those modellers who have gone the extra mile in the effort to support our new facebook page which we had to set up when we lost the original one.  One of them is also Martin Benko, an excellent modeller and a member of KPM Prosek Panthers mode...

Available on good hobby shop shelves next month, these three Special Hobby new kits will sport the boxarts shown here now. The 1/48 scale Viggen kit contains a new sprue and an improved instruction booklet, hence the title Updated Edition on its box.

The 1/48 Viggen kit produced by Special Hobby in cooperation with Swedish Tarangus is no doubt very nice kit. Special Hobby offers the AJ-37 version in two different releases, one with standard camouflage schemes – model SH8148 , the other as a red anniversary Viggen SH48188 . The fighter version JA-37 has been produced for the Swedish partner. One of the very few things that the modeller might hold against our kit is somewhat incorrect shape of the canard foreplanes. To improve that, we have decided to produce a pair of correction resin sets. Yes, there will be two of them as the is a teeny difference between earlier JA-37, Sk-37 and SF-37 aircraft and more modern version of the JA-37, the former use canard foreplanes with only a single vortex generator on each, the latter have been fitted with doubled vortex generators on each of the foreplane. The flaps have been modelled as separate parts enabling the modeller to portray them in a down position correct for the Viggen on the gr...