1/48 Fiat G.50 I Serie, Flying Machines

Luftwoller · Post by **Luftwoller** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:00 am

Lubos, great looking work so far. Do you paint the panel lines with thin cement?
Fantastic colour picture of the CR, thx for posting.
...Guy

Lubos Pavel · Post by **Lubos Pavel** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:22 pm

Luftwoller wrote:Lubos, great looking work so far. Do you paint the panel lines with thin cement?
Fantastic colour picture of the CR, thx for posting.
...Guy

Yes I do. Aftrer rescribing of the panel lines I always use Tamiya Extra Thin cement

Lubos

Aeroal · Post by **Aeroal** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:03 am

Hello everyone,

The cockpit of Salvadori's CR42 preserved in the Battle of Britain Hall at RAFM Hendon is in grigio azzuro chiaro, although I don't know if it has been repainted. The externals certainly have been repainted in an awful representation of the machine's original colour scheme which is inaccurate in both colour and layout. The mottles are all hard edge masked!!! This is a shame as detailed photographs of the camouflage scheme of this particular machine are readily available.

Regards,

Aeroal.

Chris Busbridge · Post by **Chris Busbridge** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:20 pm

A few years ago, I sent an email to the RAF Hendon museum to find out if anything could be done about the amateurish scheme on their Cr.42. In their reply, they had a fairly good reason for not being able to do much about it! The large doors that allowed aircraft to be installed in that part of the museum were removed to make way for the new larger display hall. Basically, it's trapped! It will cost far too much money to extract the aircraft from the depths of the museum where it currently resides, which includes removing a section of load bearing wall. They are also afraid of inflicting any damage from such a move, despite the aircraft being thought to be quite sound.

Hopefully, there will be a better scheme applied to a Cr.42 currently undergoing a painfully slow restoration to flying condition at the IWM Duxford. I think the intention is to display it with the Gladiator.

Aeroal · Post by **Aeroal** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:13 am

To see the CR42 and the Gladiator pitted against one another in a comparative fly-off would be utterly fascinating. I wouldn't care to venture which one would be the winner. It would also be the first time these two lovely machines have appeared in the skies together, albeit under much happier circumstances than during the 'Great Unpleasantness', since probably 1940-41. I look forward to this event, whenever it may be, with considerable anticipation.

Aeroal.

1/48 Fiat G.50 I Serie, Flying Machines

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