Kits including interior detailing parts I'll paint & glue in, number of models I'd fabricated parts for including seat straps, painted/cut/glued-in Magic Mending Tape works OK, pleasing results mostly. I've even made a few models with interior detail that can't be seen at all though gave up on that ...

Vincent Fiore wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:01 am

Richard, thank you very much for your rapid response to my inquiry. If you have a chance could you send me the address to the sight you mentioned in your answer to my request?

Vincent

Wikipedia: Reggiane Re.2005

I just started building my 1/32 scale Re 2005 By Pacific Coast models. As I have several models in different scales. and there are very few color schemes available I would like something different. I have decided to paint it as the prototype. The information I need is, did it fly with its armament ...

Richard, I just completed building the Fiat G 12. What I did for the wing reinforcing was. I used two-part epoxy. First I glued the wing to the fuselage half, then drilled through the fuselage into the wing and then inserted pre-cut finish nails with epoxy. This makes alinement much easier and elim...

Good job Richard. I'll need the following when you can: Here's what's included in the ZIP files I'd just sent you: Re.2001 - Bomba a Ossigeno Liquido (more photos) Ro.58 (photos) AVIA FL.3 (photos) FC.12 (photos) CR.25 (photos) SM.86 G & W (photos) FC.20 (photos) Ca.331 (photos) They're everything ...

https://i.postimg.cc/vZPjTmCz/Eti-G12.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Ghmx2jRW/g12-c3.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/0jdXs5p7/g12-c1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gjYq3VZ6/g12-c2.jpg This 1/72 scale resin kit is slightly smaller than a Boeing B-17 , challenge to build as well. The one-piece main wing castings absolu...

The FIAT G.50 Freccia (Arrow) designed by Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903-1987) was the first Italian low-wing monoplane fighter with enclosed cockpit & retractable landing gear, the majority built with open cockpits in response to strident pilot objections regarding the alleged poorly designed enclosed co...

The Fiat G.55 Centauro (Centaur) designed by Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903-1987) arguably was the best World War II Italian fighter flown by the Regia Aeronautica Italia (RAI) & Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR). During its short wartime operational service primarily with the ANR this powerful, ro...

The FIAT CR.42B (Biposto lit. Two-Seater) was the basic training version of the CR.42 Biplane extensively modified with an elongated two-seat fuselage, empty weight increasing just 40 kg (88.2 lbs) by eliminating lower main landing gear spats & tailwheel fairings well as other weight savings measure...

The FIAT CR.42 DB was a failed attempt to "revitalize" the obsolete biplane design ala installing an early production Daimler-Benz DB 601A 1,010hp V-12 inline engine, the sole prototype MM.469 built in March 1941 flying for the first time at the hands of FIAT's Valentino Cuz shortly thereafter. Duri...

In Spring 1943 Aeronautica Macchi C.202 M.M.91974 was fitted with a pair of gondola-mounted Mauser M.G. 151 20 mm cannons each with 200 rounds as the Esperimento Cannoni (Experimental Cannon - EC) variant to increase the type's firepower in combat against cannon-armed Allied aircraft. First flying o...

The Aeronautica Macchi C.205 Veltro (Greyhound) along with the Reggiane Re.2005 & Fiat G.55 was one of three mid-WWII Italian Serie 5 fighters built around the 1,475hp FIAT RA.1050 R.C.58 Tifone (Typhoon) licensed built version of the Daimler-Benz DB.605 inverted V-12 engine. The Veltro was the best...

The Aeronautica Macchi C.205 Veltro (Greyhound) along with the Reggiane Re.2005 & Fiat G.55 was one of three mid-WWII Italian Serie 5 fighters built around the 1,475hp FIAT RA.1050 R.C.58 Tifone (Typhoon) licensed built version of the Daimler-Benz DB.605 inverted V-12 engine the sole C.205V prototyp...

The Aeronautica Macchi C.204 ("C.202 Isotta Fraschini" originally) powered by a 900hp Isotta Fraschini Asso XI L.121 upright V-12 engine was designed during autumn 1940 as an indigenous Italian-built alternative to the difficult to produce well as expensive 1,175hp Alfa Romeo RA.1000 R.C.41-I Monson...

Following WWII Aeronautica Macchi and FIAT resumed production of their Daimler-Benz DB 605 -powered C.205V and G.55 fighters for the Aeronautica Militare Italiana , Egypt and Levantine state air forces (G.55s only for the latter), whilst DB 605 engine stocks were being used up FIAT commenced buildin...