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Morning All,
Check out Andrea Francavilla beautiful diorama over at Hyperscale.com.
Regards,
Gregory Jouette

Good morning Gregory, do you have the link to the article ?

Vince

Vince,
Sorry about that lack of link thing.For some reason I couldn't move the link over to Stormo.But the article is located in the forum section under "Plastic Pics".Take a look and see what you think.Andrea did a beautiful job on his diorama IMHO.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

Maybe a cut and paste job will work from here?
www.network54.com/forum/47751/message/1238407882/MC202

The link work fine and it's certainly a very nice done diorama.
I suppose it would be too cruel to point out to the modeller that he neglected to fill in the C.205 panel detail on the upper wing, even though the instructions tell you to do so. Maybe he does not know the C.202 that well.

Hey Webmaster,

Your web page security has defeated using right-click to open up a web page. You may want to rethink that security thing.

Paul




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Paul,
Just left click the link. It will take you right to the article.Enjoy my friend.
Regards,
Gregory Jouette

Yes, thank you, I am perfectly aware that left-clicking on a link will take you there. My point is that the web page security devices that are meant to prevent unfair copying and pasting of material, it also defeats the right-click function that many computer users use to open pages in a new tab or window. The right-click function dates back to the 1970s, and Microsoft embraced this function years before Mac ever did. (Not being a Mac owner for over a decade I am unaware if Mac computers even have right-click to this day). The end result of this is the law of unintended consequences. You do something that you think is good (Obama) and you wind up screwing up something else (America).

I get a problem when trying to post on the Hyperscale forum. It says I need to enable cookies in the browser 'preferences' and when I do check, I find that cookies ARE enabled. Can't figure that one out and, to this day, I still haven't managed to post on the HS forum.

Never used a PC (ever) so I'm not familiar with the left/right click mouse protocol. The latest Mac mouse has a tiny track ball in the center for scrolling up or down with and the whole body of the mouse is used to 'click' with.

I'm happy to arrive on this forum, and thanks to Gregory for his compliments about my diorama.
I really don't know if is beautiful like has been described anyway I would like show you with the a little description of its assembly... and sorry for my english in advance.

The assembly of this model has been little difficult.
The first has been put the cockpit inside the fuselage, is too large. So you must reduce the thickness of both side (lateral plate and fuselage). When your hairs are full of the resin dust is ok
After that, I prefer assembled the resin one by one in the fuselage without follow the instructions. In same time I've adjusted some particular of the cockpit like below
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_0769.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_0768.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_0772.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_0773.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 0781_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

So i become to assembly on the semi-fuselage

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1664_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1665_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

Also the seat position is wrong, if you put like to instructions the pilot place is under the antenna, for this reason you must shift the internal floor of 1-1.5mm and so you can close the fuselage

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1670.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1669_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1668.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

Other big problem was the canopy. There are a lot of pictures where the canopy is always closed, apart before pilot go on, but with a little lateral window shifted in open position

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... o_1942.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

But I discover that, probably, PCM think only to canopy open. Is too high if you close it.
After adjusting, the next step has been open the lateral windows

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1633_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1634_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1635_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 1636_1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1676.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1677.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

I added also the slides for windows, and this is the final result

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1709.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1710.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1711.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

Also for the weels was a trouble because were too large for the forks, so I separated for rebuild by a insert of plasticard and a pin in the leg

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 7_0838.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... 7_0837.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

Finaly my suggestion is to get a lot of putty, also the bicomponent(I use milliput, you know?) for close a lot of gaps between wings and fuselage and the bottom of engine plate (in this case I used a insert of plasticard because the gap was of few millimeters)

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1707.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_1708.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

And so... it is the final result

Sicily, spring 1943 : Attack planning

<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... rtina1.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2629.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2630.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2631.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2632.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2633.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2634.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2637.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2638.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2639.jpg" alt="[linked image]">
<img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff31 ... G_2641.jpg" alt="[linked image]">

So, I think that many troubles arrived from my wrong approach and my little exsperience of modeller, anyway I'm happy about the fighter of lieutenant Mazzoleni in Sicily in the begin of '43.

Ciao, Andrea.

Andrea,

Wow what nice work. The interior is fantastic. And the detail on the revised canopy is inspiring to all of us looking to make our modeling better. Thanks for showing us the way. And I must comment on the painting of the figures. That detail is awesome as well. The work on the pilot near the left wing is particularly noteworthy. No you are not boring us, I think you make us all green with envy after seeing your spectacular work. Thanks a million!

Paul



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Welcome Andrea. Thank you for your wonderful post. Your build looks terrific! Look forward to seeing more of your work.

Andrea,
Welcome aboard,and I second Vince hope to see more of your works posted soon.By the way not to worry about your English,it far far better than my Italian.
Regards,
Gregory Jouette

Hy Andrea, How do you do ? as usual a great and beautiful work !
I hope to see others your news
Ciao
Gabriele

Hi Gabriele, all ok? I hope.
Thanks for your compliments but, unfortunatly my sotry on Stormo is already finish.
See you soon, ciao.