...All my 1990s & Early 2000s Italian aircraft art renderings as saved on a Korean website some years ago:

Great job on both aircraft. ...They were delights to build thanks to excellent castings. If the mentioned powerplants were available before Italy entered WWII the Saetta certainly would had been competative against the Hawker Hurricane MK I & Spitfire Mk I with de Havilland or Rotol constant speed ...

Very cool. Is this your drawing? Towards the end the RA did begin to buy into the heavy fighter concept. ...Rendered 1999, have two others both Reggiane 2007s still up on the Internet. This one & Re 2007s buried deep in web on a Korean website where I'd discovered near all of my posted art thought ...

Aeronautica Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera Vs. North American P-82B https://i.postimg.cc/JzFLrhfD/dioram37.jpg Twins Tango - A Regia Aeronautica Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera Rudely Dispatches A U.S.A.A.F. North American P-82B Somewhere Over The Algerian/Tunisian Border, August 28, 1945 A not too ridiculous c...

https://i.postimg.cc/DwT8h2GP/KPL-P32-LF-Models-P32-I-II.png The Piaggio P.32 designed in 1934 first flew in 1936 at the hands of Giovanni Pegna powered by 825 hp Isotta Fraschini Asso XI R.C. 12-cylinder V-inline liquid-cooled engines. Modern for its day it later was redesignated by Piaggio as the...

https://i.postimg.cc/Gm5bJJKg/Untitled.png The Aeronautica Macchi (Aermacchi) C.201 & later C.200bis & prototypes were both marginal performance improvements over the 1937-vintage C.200 Saetta (Arrow, Dart, Lightning depending on spoken vernacular) radial engine-powered interceptor fighter just one...

https://i.postimg.cc/wxX06dJW/s79.png Internationally renound as a land-based maritime torpedo bomber during WWII the 1936-vintage Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia Savoia-Marchetti S.79 (SM.79 alternatively) Sparviero (Sparrowhawk) began operational life as a record-breaking civilian transport the I...

MORE reasons y'all given why I'd LOVED modeling four-gun FROG Macchi C.202 "what-ifs" (presumably) with Breda-SAFATs years back. Am beg'n y'all allowing me to post just one build photo somewhere here on STORMO, don't wanna get y'all ticked off my doing that recognizing its a serious history website...

..Knew this was coming near decade ago, i.e. seven years before it really did: Testors Discontinues Popular Lines of Model Paint.

...Liked the Breda-SAFAT, name alone is unforgetable for reason's I won't go into here (chuckles). Me thinks the weapon slower-firing than USA Browning M2 though still had good punch, here's War Thunder Wiki particulars regarding it: Breda-SAFAT (12.7 mm) . My favorite Italian "what-if" remains a f...

Pilots didn't ask for heavier guns until US B-17/B.24s appeared - the B-24s were especially hard to shot down. It wasn't that the C.202 couldn't take down a B.24, it could, it was the heavy escorts that were the problem and it usually took two or three passes to take down a B-24, what was needed wa...

https://i.postimg.cc/V6JXg7GX/uk-usac200.png First flown on Christmas Eve 1937 at Lonate Pozzolo, Varese Italy by Aeronautica Macchi’s chief test pilot Giuseppe Bure the FIAT A.74 radial engine-powered C.200 Saetta (Arrow, Dart, Lightning depending on spoken vernacular) was Italy’s second modern al...

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 g...

Too cool, I love it! Thought it be simpler write-up, absolutely flabbergasted finding that His Air Dec "Italian Aces" publication & decal up years ago on eBay! Dear GOD if I'd had it for my 1960s FROG builds, but maybe not! Was decades away having necessary craft skills building them, c.1980 earlie...