The 1:72 scale viking oarsmen from british manufacturer EMHAR also wont fit, I guess.
Concerning the crude details I can tell you that the model was issued first
in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The original manufacturer was MERIT
from Great Britain, who pirate copied the AURORA viking ship. Its indeed a copy,
not from the same mould. There are slight differences ike the engravings of the
dragon head, and others too. MERIT also copied the 1:220 scale Cutty Sark, Chinese junk
and the pirate ship "Black Falcon". CS and BF are available from SMER too,
like other kits from old MERIT tools, which were sold to the italian manufacturer
ARTIPLAST in the late 1960s and then suddenly reappeared at SMER in the 1980s.
Only the Chinese Junk (also AURORA copy) has not been reissued yet.
I wonder whether the tool was lost or damaged ?
In my collection I have both, Aurora originals, Merit copies and actual Smer kits.
So I found out that the MERIT / SMER models were not pantographed from
AURORAs models. Cutty Sark shows slight differences in width of the hull for example.
HTH woxel 59