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In my opinion one of the most iconic Finnish Air Force fighters of WWII was the Brewster-239. Finland ordered 44 of them from the US and they saw action against the red army from the summer 1942 onwards. The pilots liked the Brewster very much and they achieved an incredible number of 460 victories with that fighter type. The nickname the pilots gave to the stubby BW was "Pylly Waltteri" or "Bum Walter"😆 One of the highest scoring aces of Finland during the whole war was major Eino Luukkanen. He scored a total of 56 victories. In his personal mount, the BW-393 he had a special way to mark the victories. He stuck a beer bottle label to the tail for each kill 😂 The Brewsters of his flight were painted in blue with white numbers. I built the 1/48 scale model of his plane from a very challenging Classic Airframes kit. The fit of the parts was poor and especially the clear parts of the cockpit caused a lot of trouble. After a long fight I managed to get them somehow in place. Building the kit was practically endless sanding and puttying. However, despite the difficulties I'm pretty satisfied with how the model turned out. Major Luukkanen with his BW-393 and 17 beer bottle labels to mark his victories
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