Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Regia Aeronautica Italiana

Look upon my air force and despair.  Especially if it's on your side in a game.  From humble beginnings, my 1/144 scale RAI has managed to expand to fifteen models.  But I can stop anytime....
The humble beginnings.  Air support for my much maligned Italian troops began about 14 years ago with this disreputable looking trio.  The Fiat G.50 (left) was converted from a Minicraft 'Zero', the SM.79 began life as a Mitsubishi 'Betty' and the MC.205 used to be a Minicraft Ki.61 'Frank'.
'Proper' aircraft at last - a trio of Fiat biplanes built and painted by Wg Cdr Luddite.  The green specimen at the back is a CR-32, the others are CR.42s.
The Wg Cdr also dealt with these Sweet Kits Macchi Mc.200s.
Macchi Mc.205s - a pair of F-Toys (pre-painted) examples sneer at my earlier effort.
An Eduard plastic kit of a Ju-87 - also by the Wg Cdr.
The most recent addition - a die-cast SM.79.  A proper bomber at last!
The whole lot cowering in their box.
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12 comments:

  1. Don M21 March 2012 at 22:55

    Viva Italia! Well they look pretty
    at least...)

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  2. Paul22 March 2012 at 05:43

    Huzzah! The air trembles with the onslaught of hard Italiano Steel!

    Your conversion effort are resplendent and it was worth the wait to see the Frank/Macchi.

    Why do I feel like some pizza to eat?

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  3. AlFront22 March 2012 at 11:01

    These are first class. And don't depreciate your early efforts - they fooled me!

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  4. Tim Gow22 March 2012 at 12:25

    Don M
    Looking pretty is their core activity!

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  5. Tim Gow22 March 2012 at 12:26

    Paul
    The air is the only thing trembling when this lot appear. Glad you like the dodgy conversions. Pizza eh? Now I'm hungry.

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  6. Tim Gow22 March 2012 at 12:27

    AIFront
    I am very emotionally attached to the early conversions!

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  7. Peter Douglas22 March 2012 at 14:30

    They do look purdy!

    PD

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  8. Tim Gow22 March 2012 at 21:53

    Peter Douglas
    Working on the 'if you don't have enough guns then at least look good' principle?

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  9. Tim Gow22 March 2012 at 21:54

    West1871
    Some of my favourite 1930s aircraft are Italian. Shame they had to put up with them in the 1940s too...

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  10. Chris Kemp22 March 2012 at 22:06

    Actually, your earlier efforts are nicer than the F-toys (by my definition of 'nice'). I had spotted the possibilities of the zero conversion, but not the Frank, brilliant!

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  11. Tim Gow23 March 2012 at 08:01

    Chris Kemp
    Praise indeed from a master bodger!

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  12. Chris Kemp7 November 2018 at 23:02

    Hmmm - I should have done my homework more thoroughly, I had forgotten how many toys you had! :-)

    Regards, Chris

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