SPECIAL HOBBY 1/72 Seversky J9 - Build report.

Construction of the Seversky J9 is moving forward. All parts are painted and only assembly of wheels, weapons, etc.. Remains. I'm a little unhappy with camouflage, I feel that the dark green color needs to be a little more dominant, I might paint on another coat of dark green.

The kit is relatively easy to build, the only difficult part is fitting the wing to the fuselage. Generally, all parts fit a little tight so sandpaper and small drills are good to have on hand. The instructions say that you should paint the parts B22 and B7 black, but if you do the instrument film will not be visible, it is better to paint these parts white where instruments film should sit.

If you choose to paint scheme A then you should use part A13. I used the recommended colors except the yellow-green that I mixed Tamiya XF4 with XF3 until the mix was more yellow than green.

Seversky P-35 update

The arrival of the excellent book” Swedish Fighter Colours” trigged some last minute changes to my model.  At page 100 there is an excellent colour picture of Blue Erik at F8 wing and my first reaction was that it was the same as the kit version A, but a closer look reviled lots of differences, In fact it’s a another individual.

  The most obvious is the lack of the blue ring around the engine cowling and black & white marking on the wing bottom. Minor differences is the smaller size national insignia on the upper side of the wing, lacking of white bottom on the letter E, a blue spinner and the longer air intake on the engine cowling. All this needed to be corrected.  Now it´s just waiting for a light wash and a satin finish.

The kit is highly recommended.


Pictures of the finished model is here:

http://hogges-modellbygge.blogspot.se/2013/01/special-hobby-seversky-p-35-j-9-finished.html