Well, it's Swedish, I didn't
have anything Swedish in the collection and I liked it,
so I built it.
Not a bad little kit. The canopy had some nasty flaws
in it so I crammed it full of Milliput and used it to
plunge-mould a new one from acetate.
The only other problem was the fit of the wings to the
fuselage. The trailing edges hung down about 1/8"
below the root on the fuselage. I used a razor saw to
make cuts in the lower wing half at the root from the
trailing edge to about the middle. This was glued to the
fuselage first, then the upper wing halves were glued
to the bottom wing half. The saw cuts allowed me to bend
the trailing edges so they would mate with the wing roots
on the fuselage. The cuts were later filled with Milliput.
The wheels in the kit were
awful, so some leftover Hasegawa P-51 wheels were cut
in half to reduce the thickness and thin sections of plastic
tube were glued to the hubs. They look pretty darn close
to the pictures I have of this aircraft.
The panel lines were re-scribed as they were a bit indistinct
in places. Pitot and gun blast tubes are from stainless
steel tubing, and the vanes in the wing intakes are from
.005" sheet.
The decals were very strange. They went on nicely, but
the national insignia looked far too dark on the sheet.
When applied over the dark olive paint however, they actually
got considerably lighter!
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