Some words of
history. The Stampe Vertongen SV-4 is a belgian production airplane. In the late
40's the Belgian government acquired, in 4 different batches, 65 of these
machines for initial pilot training. The first three batches were initially
delivered in an aluminium color with yellow training bands around wings and
fuselage, the last 8 adopting the overall orange color so familiar to this
plane. Ultimately all of them were re painted orange. The very last machines
were used by the Belgian Air Force as glider tugs until 1975. A very last one
flew until March 1978 for airshow presentations. Many of them survive to this
day with most of them still in flying condition.
The kit now : This
is the beautiful model from Azur Ffrom in 1/72nd scale. That's a short run kit
that builds up very nicely with some attention.
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I built
this kit during a 24h challenge. Objective is to complete the model in less than
24h work in total. It took me 2 weeks to build and I managed to finish it in
about 23h30. As it's a biplane, most of the work was done in the wings assembly
and rigging plus the control cables running along the fuselage. Dashboard panels
were detailed with Mike Grant instruments.