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I saw that. If I could afford that I could probably also afford paying someone to cnc it for me. :P

Very nice! Unfortunately the printer i used was a large Inkjet plotter so this wont be possible for me. The results look fantastic! :-)

Well, i'm gonna be honest and say that wallpaper paste was not the best choice due to two basic reasons: The paper absorbs the fluid and deforms (causes big bubbles on the drawing), they go away somewhaty during drying but not completely. (ill get a photo the next time im at my dads garage). The paper pretty much comes loose from the vibrations of the saw, so you need to be very carefull while cutting. In other words it works, but i wouldn't recomend it. Of course it might adhere a lot better to the smooth MDF that it does the coarse plywood. I also tried using this and that worked fantastic, but the problem there was that i needed an entire can for each sheet of plywood so it got expensive fast. If you can afford it i would go with the Spray Mount, the drawing can be readjusted for 12 hours before it sets and when it has set you can peel it of like a sticker after sawing without any noticable recidue (a quick sanding and it's perfectly clean) and it doesn't come loose during sawing like the wallpaper pase did. :-) Edit: If you take a look at the photos in my first and second posts you can see the difference. The 6mm sheet in my first post is attached with Spray Mount, and the second sheet i used wall paper paste on (more bubbles)

I'll try using a level as a guide next week! :-) Right now I'm using drills like the one in the link below to cut holes for starting the cuts and it's been working pretty good. I also have a drill attachment for cutting perfect circles up to 70mm in diameter. I drill halfway until the point makes a small hole on the bottom side and then I drill the opposite direction to avoid splinters. :-) for the jigsaw I got some good blades made to cut straight and very clean cuts and they are fantastic. :-) http://m.clasohlson.com/se/Centrumborrsats/30-7214

That's a classic Viggen crowd pleaser! :D

Looks like you were blessed with fantastic display weather! :-)

Not much to show this weekend, except that I got a new significantly better jigsaw! Getting straight cuts is so much easier when you don't have to fight the tools. :-)

This is true for most Swedish military equipment to this day. :-) The J 29 Tunnan for example was designed so that most of the daily maintenance could be done by a conscripted teenager using nothing else but a philips head screwdriver.

I'm not sure but i think it's a lot of visual designation with the Viggen despite the radar. It's a radar from the 1960s after all. My guess is it's more of a helping tool to find targets than an automated system to lock targets. :P

It does yes, LNS has developed their own A-G radar for the AJS 37.

Dont forget teasers for teaser trailers and teaser trailers for trailers. ;-)

Just to sooth your minds when it comes to fantastic SAAB combat aircraft, heres a video of SAAB unveiling the gripen NG (E/F). ;-) https://saabevent.screen9.tv/media/u0iPj_oSVyWv8auSRizXQw/gripen-live-stream

Made some slow progress today. I'm having some trouble with my (old) jigsaw, it doesn't cut perfectly straight since the base plate apparently can't be completely fastened so if i apply pressure to the saw it sometimes tilts slightly to the sides. Im gonna have to live with it tough since i can't really afford a new one! :P All 18mm parts have been cut and i began work on the first 12mm board.

So, i finally decided to give this a go, and after having a look around i decided that i would try and make myself the Jedis home cockpit. I bought the needed plywood this week and i will be assembling this over the next few months, it's going to take a while since i have nowhere near the space needed to cut the parts, paint it etc at home so im going to be spending a few days a months occupying my poor dads garage. :music_whistling: To make life easier for myself i had the cutting patterns printed at scale 1:1, my plan is to attach these directly to the plywood using wallpaper paste, and then using a jigsaw to cut along the lines. :P I ran into a small issue today since my cutting patters were printed to fit a standard 1220x2440mm piece of plywood, but apparely 4 of the 5 plywood sheets i bought was only 1200x2400mm for some reason, so im going to have to rearange the parts to make everything fit, although i suspect i might need one extra sheet of plywood in the end anyways. :doh: Today i spent most of the day glueing paper to plywood. :P

You need the 6 and 18mm sheets aswell, the reason they're not in there is that they dont need to be changed since they only take up a small part of each sheet, so you can use the cutting patterns for 6 and 18mm from the other file regardless of the size of your plywood sheet. (this one) Did you ever find that sketchup file? I see there has been one uploaded in this thread before but the link appears to be dead. :-/

Nah the CNC thing was more or less just out of curiosity, i'll probably be cutting it by hand. I found someone that will print the cutting diagrams for me for $50, so thats the way ill go. Material cost isn't really going to be a problem. :-)

It's the last part im afraid of, because my DIY prowess is MIA. :lol: I also just checked the price on birch plywood in my region and well, the wife is not going to be happy! :D

I did so too, they build furniture as their living so youd think this was their specialty, i got an instant reply that the CNC machines they had can't do this kind of work, and that i need to find someone with a "nesting CNC", whatever that means! :book:

I'll probably go this route myself since my local print shop wanted about $350 to print all five pages at full size, a bit steep if you ask me. For that price i might aswell find someone that can CNC cut it for me. :noexpression:

Adobe reader can print larger posters on multiple pages using a function called poster print. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-posters-banners-acrobat-reader.html These are ther files you print: http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=82429&d=1369468434

The plans require 6mm, 12mm and 18mm sheets of plywood, most of it is 12mm but some parts need to be 18mm for stability and the 6mm parts are as i have been able to understand mostly cosmetic details. The different versions of the plans are linked below, the first ones are for manually printing out plans and building it using hand tools, and the other ones are for CNC routers. Hand cutting: CNC: The material you need is listed in this post

I'm sure it is, it's the pre-season inspection before they refuel the aircraft and test run the engine. :-)

SwAFHF just posted some photos from ongoing maintenance of their AJS-37. :-)

I guess an email is on it's way to LNS now? :lol:

"miggen" is the Swedish way of saying "the Mig". I guess this is what he's trying to say. :P