Morane Saulnier M.S.406C.1 "MS-317" – the French/ Finnish fighter

Morane Saulnier MS.406 – the French all-metal single-engine low-wing fighter with a classic tail. The first flight of the prototype took place on July 8, 1935, serial production began in 1938. The combination of a good engine (“Hispano Suiza” 12Y31, developing 860 h. p.) and good aerodynamics resulted in a successful fighter, capable of reaching speeds of over 450 km/h. The serial version was called the MS-406C1. The aircraft proved to be in demand on the international market: Poland, Lituania, China, Turkey and Yugoslavia, among others, expressed interest in it. After the capitulation of France in June 1940, Germany sold MS406s to Croatia (48 aircraft) and Finland (37 aircraft). The MS406 fought mainly in the French campaign, and later served in the Vichy Air Force and the Free French Forces. The Lituanian Air Force rejected these already produced fighters (which had already been painted with Lituanian Air Force markings) due to the long delay and the aircraft not meeting the requirements and terms of the contract.

A medium-complexity, well-designed and richly detailed model of a WWII fighter for modelers of any experience. Only for beginners or less experienced modelers, we recommend working under the supervision of a more experienced colleague, not rushing, to do the cockpit interior equipment, the extended landing gear, and the transparent windows as a test: if You succeed - GREAT!!! - we make a full model, if not, You will have to be content with a model with the retracted landing gear and opaque cockpit windows. The model perfectly recreates the cockpit equipment, landing gear, its niches, control surfaces, that can be assembled together with the wing surfaces or separate, excellent exterior detailing, rare camouflage and a rather rare country, to which the plane belonged - Finland. There are no color stocks. The textual instruction in Polish and English are small and explain only the most difficult moments of assembling the model, the graphical ones are large, detailed, informative and easy to read. From the publication You can make a model of the "White 2" fighter of the 1/LLv 28 group (Finland), based at Solomanni airfield, in October 1941. By the way, in the modeling and aviation press, You can find "Lihuanian" "Morans" painting schemes and easily make a model of a "Lituanian" fighter. using a computer repainting programs, although these aircraft never reached Lituania.