Hi guys ..I picked up Haswgawas Kawanishi Type 97 Mavis today and am hot-to-trot to build it ...does anyone have any info on it?

The Mavis is pretty much a product of it's time (early 70s, I think). The shape is good, but interior detail is non-existent and it may be a little lacking externally as well. I think with some scratchbuilt (or some variety of aftermarket, I don't think there's anything specifically made for it) internal details you'd have a really nice model.
I've got one in the stash, but I've never put it together.

I have a built--er, OK, then semi unassembled--Mavis. I can put up some pix if you want. H8K Emily, too--unbuilt.

It is festooned with rivets like the real thing, but they are oversized. The fabric detail is pretty impressive. The struts are fairly too-scale. The open cowls offer a good view of the engines, which look pretty good within.

The big cockpit greenhouse offers plenty of opportunity to detail. So do the gun positions, but they are obscured with a great deal of framing.

Don is correct, it is a model of its era. But I think it looks pretty good.

thanks guys I do agree that the kit is a child of its times, and that with proper internal detailing it will be a stunner , the question is what is the proper internal detailing? I looked in the AeroDetails book on the Emily and can see what I should do in general terms,yet I was hoping for specifics. My freind laughed when I told him I needed a cockpit photo.."whos gonna look in there?" he says ....I will ..
Steve Hustad did a great Mavis and he must have gotten his cockpit info from somewhere..