Finnish Racer Finnished…..eeerrr no, I mean Finished
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Let me tell you a story, not my usual 14,000 word epic, I've taken pity on you so I'll keep this brief.
I won this kit as a prize, which gave me a tiny problem as I'd recently become allergic to swastikas.…..what to do, what to do… Unusually for me, the answer was to take it seriously.
Looking around for an alternative scheme I found one in Finnish racing colours. It just happened to be the most complicated scheme I found. What a surprise. No decals exist in 1/72 as far as I know and even if there were, I'm too tight to buy them so all the markings are done with home-made, hand-cut masks.
Utti ai base had a mid-summer festival open day on June 23rd 1950. It held an air show, at which participated a total of twelve 109's (Mersus). It ended in an American Reno style air race around poles with four specially marked planes. MT-508 was plane B and at the controls was luutnantti Arvo Arima. I think only one photo exists so details are sketchy. I've included the photo on the base. It's believed that the aircraft had special markings on the left side only – thankfully. It was painful enough doing just one side.
I didn't do any weathering because as a racer it would proba…..who am I trying kid. I didn't do any weathering because I couldn't be arsed.
