First, no one is happier to see you posting again than myself, I missed you! Just a note on GERD, allot of that has to do with diet, be careful what you're eating - isolate food that triggers it and remove it from your diet. Glad your surgery went well and that you're feeling better and yes indeed, ...

No chance to bring a model to work for me Giallo Mimetico looks good.

Welcome to Stormo. Serie VII machines were built between April - July 1942, the guns were added after RA pilots began encountering American bombers but it was pretty clear what was needed were canons. Some earlier serie planes could be fitted with the wings guns also. The rifle caliber 7.7mm wing gu...

The riveting tool is amazing, very clean.

Beautiful job in the cockpit.

The Yahu PE set is nice.

Who is that handsome looking guy in the photo

Richard, a couple of ways to do this: 1) Skymodels 48-015 has the decals you need for 11-378 together with generic MMs (27) in white, black and yellow. Its an older sheet but its still good. The profile in the instructions is 1-378 but the decals for 11-378 are there (48, 49). Everything you need is...

Welcome to Stormo and I look forward to this build, Bogdan just finished the same kit. Enjoy the forum.

The plate says the following: Ammortizzatore Tipo 79-0020 no 31274 Manutenzione Tenere l’asta del pistone Pulita ed ingrassata Altezza normale misurata Dalla base del cilindro all’indico Sul’asta del piston XXX / XXX m/p In caso di altezza anormale seguire le istruzioni della regolazione Livello de...

Let us know what you think about the book, I don't recognize the author's names. I read two of Marco Mattioli's books from Osprey, 53o Stormo and S.79 Torpedo bombers, both are excellent reads and contain history, tables, day to day operations, pilot accounts etc - very much history oriented with pr...

Both of us being academics, we tend to reference everything under the sun which serves as a reminder of how hard it is to contribute original ideas to the current body of knowledge on any given topic. I do hope that when I reference certain books people don't feel obligated to buy the reference, its...

We used Volume 2 for 48011 "Cuore, Patria, Volo, 2o Gruppo Caccia ANR 1943-1945, Storie Vissute di Piloti e Aerei", its pretty good. Some fine details in the book lined up with what we found for the G.55 (e.g., vert stabilizer of the G.55 prototype and all the different production tails - much more ...

The G.55 was a big plane. Look forward to this build.

Looks great.