This is the first non German WWII kit that I have decided to built. After attending the once-a-year Peruvian Air Force Show, couple of years ago I went to the local hobbyshop and bought the only kit of this bird available on my scale, the  Academy kit, for a very reasonable price.

After opening the box I was really disappointed to find that the fitting of the fuselage is a nightmare, the seats quality is ridiculous, and some other details were so worse that I a not even going to mention. Anyway, besides all that, with the pictures I have I started to make some changes.

The seats supplied are really awful, they look like a waiting room coach. I replaced them with a couple of resin seats made by a friend for his Su-25 Peruvian Air Force (Dony Alva, take a look at the gallery), with minor adjustments they fit perfectly. Surprisingly, the instrument panel level of detail was almost good so I decide to leave it like that.

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Other modifications included adding anti-static devices made with a very thin nylon fishing thread, dropping the flaps, adding a new antenna to the right tail and also once again thanks to my friend Dony, a couple of underwing fuel tanks were added.

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Other modifications included adding anti-static devices made with a very thin nylon fishing thread, dropping the flaps, adding a new antenna to the right tail and also once again thanks to my friend Dony, a couple of underwing fuel tanks were added.

Mirko

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