s00ntir Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I will not repeat the historical or technical description of this beautiful aircraft. I will just focus on the build. This now out of pruduction PCM kit is of really good quality - as for a short run. Glossy hard plastic with recessed panel lines, very good resin parts, photo-etched fret plus decals. First of all - the kit is not difficult. As with any short run, of course, you need to clean the parts carefully and check the fit several times before gluing parts together. The wings trailing edges are quite thick and require some sanding. The propeller spinner also needed adjustments - the holes for the propeller blades were far too large. The shape of it should also be improved - but I decided to accept it. The entire model was riveted - thousands of "rivets" - especially on the wings. In fact, it turned out to be much easier than I thought - although for a few days "I saw rivets everywhere" ;-). A certain challenge was to make negative rivets on the wings and positive rivets on the fuselage. The solution is ridiculously simple - traces of riveting on the wings should be treated with very fine sandpaper and "painted" gently with Tamiya extra thin cement to clean them. Rivets on the fuselage - well... I just left them as they were after using Rosie the Riveter. I assumed that airbrushing them with Mr. Surfacer 1500 will give a good final result. And it worked. A very simple and efficient method. For the first time, I used black basing - I think the method is great. Uniform camouflage is always difficult - but here I managed to build subtle differences in shades, colors and depth. The model was painted entirely with MRP paints with partial use of Montex masks. Weathering was kept to minimum - those birds served just for several weeks. Entirely out of the box build with quite good - from my point of view - result. By the way - it was very hard to take good pictures - due to almost glossy finish, poor light and my very modest skills. MikeA, Fanes, John Stambaugh and 24 others 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Nicely done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelboy Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Babbitts Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Well done! Great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpgsbody55 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 A nice model, and well built too. Great to see another unusual Italian bird represented here. Cheers, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Lovely! Something you really don't see very often. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeA Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Beautiful work! The riveting turned out really well - not too overpowering on a shapely airframe. Mike Christa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Wow. Love this effort. Thanks for sharing this with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Article is posted! Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 That is a fine looking specimen of the breed! Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s00ntir Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 3 hours ago, LSP_Ray said: Article is posted! Well done! Thank you :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Superb build and an iteresting and little seen paint scheme of this aircraft. Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Great to see someone else building these kits, they deserve to be built, hope you enjoyed the build as much as I did, which it sounds like you did. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PEYSSON Gilles Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 A very beautiful Re 2005 Gilles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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