Clement
That's a very interesting project, best of luck!

Cuajete
Hi Thomas, Very nice project. I'm sorry to see the resin conversion for the two-seat version turned out to be a disaster. Can't the ventral hump behind the cockpit be salvaged by trimming it to try to fit it onto the Hasegawa part?

Maybe you can build this two-seater in the future:
Saab TF-35 Draken (Skale Wings SS-72001, 1:72)

Very nice cockpit 👍
Following!

Robert Podkoński
Watching, of course!

Thomas Kolb Auteur
Cuajete, yes, I tried to salvage the "hump" and for a while it seemed to be working. However the two-seater also has a different, shorter tail part, but the resin molding is terrible and it doesn't fit to the fuselage at all. Hm, that Skale Wings TF-35 looks very interesting, I would be very tempted to try to splice it together with the Hasegawa kit to build a Swedish SK 35! I will see if I can get hold of it from somewhere! Thanks for the tip!

Cuajete
You're welcome, Thomas.
Wow, I didn't realize the glue is different. I bought the TF-35 here, but it seems to be out of stock now:
modelsua.com/saab-ft..-scale-wings-ss72001

I have a friend who knows the shop owner. I can ask if he'll restock it.

J35J
Sorry to see that the conversion kit had a really poor fit, or more to the point no fit at all…
I know that Top Gun models did a Sk 35 C conversion kit with quite nice resin parts. But even that one has it flaws.
Taking a seat, always great inspiration watching your builds👍🏻

Thomas Kolb Auteur
Thank you mates, feel free to stick around!

Robert Podkoński
I am happy that I have the same kit in my stash 😉 I have the impression that it is a very modeller-friendly kit.

Thomas Kolb Auteur
Robert, yes, it is actually a very nice and easy kit to build. It only takes a couple of hours to get most of it together (minus the painting), and still make you feel good about yourself. I would say it is one of the most relaxing builds I have done in a long while - no traps or pitfalls whatsoever.

Cuajete
Fantastic quick progress, Thomas 👍

Thomas, Skale Wings may no longer be available. I'm sorry. You'll have to get this kit through other means. Perhaps other stores that still have it available, or perhaps on the secondhand market.

Łukasz Gliński
Should I write: finally? 😄 We've been waiting for this me thinks

Thomas Kolb Auteur
Cuajete, thanks a lot for looking into this! Łukasz, haha, yep, it's about time.

Łukasz Gliński
Only now I saw the resin part of the story. Maybe you could cut out the hump after all? Even for another, future kit?

Patrick Hagelstein
Ow! I love this plane! I'll be tagging along again! 👍

Thomas Kolb Auteur
I am still trying to make up my mind - standard green-blue camo or grey livery with large red dayglo numbers? They both look awesome!

J35J
Some thought on your question🙂
A sun faded green-blue Foxtrot or even a green-blue Juliet with the mix of fresh paint in front of the fuselage until approx the ventral hump and then the old sun faded paint for the rest of the plane. When upgraded from F to J version this part was repainted.

In addition to create further interest you can also paint the gun cover panel in white or day-glow orange, often used in various exercises on squadron or wing level.

Patrick Hagelstein
J35J, that sounds like a very interesting color scheme. I can imagine a faded/freshly painted aircraft in my mind already.

Thomas Kolb Auteur
Hm, interesting, I am however thinking that it might look like I am rubbish at painting... which is actually not far from the truth.

Patrick Hagelstein
😄

J35J
You are very modest regarding your painting skills😄

Łukasz Gliński
Thomas, that was the scalemates' joke of the month (at least) 😄

Robert Podkoński
I agree with Łukasz! 😄

Thomas Kolb Auteur
Dear friends, you are too kind .... Blue-green camo it shall be, just kind of reasonably sun-bleached, nothing too fancy. I am still experimenting with the MRP range, so I will need to be a bit careful not to mess up.

S M
Following late! Shame to see the C-conversion set is wrong-sized. Was it one-time bad luck or could it apply to all sets? One reason could be mold and resin shrinking that is normally very small but with that large and long part the shrinking became significant factor.

Juergen Klinglhuber
me too,----👀