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Right, I have some time off where I should be doing useful shit, and as far as I can tell the nearest destroyer has spent the last two work days sitting on its arse in Moscow, so off to the stash we go. Options there are Marivox Saab 17 and their Saab 105, the former may be quicker due to no camo, so let's go with that and make ourselves a B17, partially because it's more fun to bomb shit, partially because of the cool wheel covers/air brakes. (The aircraft was also used for recon, maritime patrol and target towing.)
So looking at the kit...
+Includes three engine options, wheels, skis, floats and target winches. I have a feeling this kit covers every possible configuration that ever flew.
+Decals appear to cover fifteen different aircraft (six in the manual, nine spread around the box), from the Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Austrian and Imperial Ethiopian Air Forces.
+It isn't a vacuform kit last produced in the late seventies, which is what your other options for a Saab 17 appear to be.
+The control stick doesn't have a small anvil attached to the top.
Surface detail is much improved, to a decent if unremarkable level, from the J22, but a bit soft and shallow. So while we lack the PE from the J22 kit, overall detail level is probably better anyway.
-"Some" flash.
-I guess the canopy is right on if you want to do an early winter morning diorama. (Third party replacement available and about to be obtained).
-Rear MG ain't a pretty sight.
-I'm gonna go right ahead and say there will be some issues with the fit before I clip the first bit off of the sprues. Marivox has a reputation.
