The IAF air fleet during the War of Independence was a haphazard, odd mix of aircraft, manufactured in various countries. The critical shortage of aircraft and the difficulty in procuring them meant that the fledgling Jewish state was willing to buy any plane available, at any cost, while foregoing any in-depth planning or serious scrutiny of its true needs and operational possibilities. A particularly strange component of the IAF was the Avia S-199 fighter, a Czech version of the Messerschmitt 109, which had been one of the mainstays of the German Luftwaffe in World War 2.
You can read the story of this airplane at: http://www.iaf.org.il
The Kit:
Beside the cover sheet, the kit provides one page of
written assembly instructions, 5 pages of exploded views, one page with a description
of the airplane's history in English, five pages holding the parts of the model, 3 are in color, one is to be glued on a 0.5 mm card, (comes with the kit) and one of gluing strips.
You can build it with either the external fuel tank or the bomb, with a detailed cockpit or an opaque canopy.
A transparent sheet with the parts printed on it also included.
