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This year, Tarangus released their fourth kit, the Saab Safir, and for the first time we could build a model of this classic Swedish trainer in 1/48. I built mine as a four-seater from F 11 wing, about 1977. Maestro Models' forthcoming decals for those camouflaged Safirs are not released yet, so I had to find decals in my spare decals box. The model is small, but sometimes a bit tricky to build. The main problem is the canopy. The fit is pretty bad, and lots of sanding and mofdifications were necessary. The other problems are mostly due to poor instructions that leaves you with a few un-answered questions, especially the correct position of the nose gear wheel well (that first should be mounted to the cockpit part) and the engine (that first should be mounted to one of the body halves, the problem is to find an exact fit with the nose part). The fit of the wing is also a little difficult. But apart from this, this is a great little kit. The overall shapes are very good, the fit, except for what I have already mentioned, is good and the cockpit has lots of nice details. The panel lines are fine and crisp and decals (although I did not use them) are well printed. Don't forget to put lots of nose weight, otherwise this is a true tail sitter! I replaced the position lights with clear ones, added new pitot tubes and seatbelts, the rest is OOB. I used Gunze colours, and the day-glow panels were painted too. I considered using decals, but decided to paint them. A nice little kit that represents a classic Swedish aircraft. The factory designation was "Saab 91". "Saab 92" was a car... :-)
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I´ve Googled all I can and I think I found every bit of web based info there is about the SAAB 91 Safir that was used by Nihon university for STOL research. Some of the most interesting sites out there are in Japanese and the Google translate is more confusing and amusing than really helpful so now I turn to Britmodeller and Hyperscale. Is there anybody out there with detailed info and hopefully high resolution pictures of this machine? the end result might be a 1 /48 scale conversion Thanks! /L
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Here's the current state of play, had a guess on the interior colour, and added some masking tape belts just for interest. Thanks for looking Hi, hope I am not too late? Here's my entry to my first GB on Britmodeller, wish me luck!:
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