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And done. Quick and easy, which suited me very much after Vasa. Kept the MicroSol away after what it did to my J35, which then meant the panel lining didn't quite agree with the roundels. Canopy could have been a lot better too, for some reason the paint there just went haywire around the final varnish coat, plenty of scratches and things looking almost like supoerglue fogging despite me not super-gluing it showing up out of nowhere, and then the latex liquid mask ripped things up quite badly when I peeled it off. Some quick hand painting and floor polish later it looked, well, like this. Which is a lot better than it did before it, even if there may not be much else good to say about it. I'm kinda happy with the shading not being complete junk though.
As for the subject (for those who missed it way back), it's a little what if. Sweden was looking far and wide for fighters around the start of WW2, probably considering just about every modern fighter plane around to some degree. The A6M did appeal to them, I'm guessing the long range was a major part there, but seeing no reasonable way of having them delivered that path was abandoned. I've never heard anything about what the Japanese thought about it, so they probably never even got as far as asking them about it.
But here instead all the stuff required for license production has been snuck across Russia by dog sled, so here we see a Swedish built one. Originally planned to be designated J9, a disappointed stare form the king quickly saw it re-labelled as the J0. And since this alternate world is on track for the war continuing into 1946, the greater attention given to Norway has Stockholm worry more about someone deciding to bomb the Kirunavaara and Malmberget mines, so J21 Kallax got their fighter squadrons in 1944 instead of of 1961.
