1/48 Macchi 202 Folgore - Mediterranean Theatre of Operations

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Yes Andy, the seatbelts are molded in place on the seat. A black oil wash really helps to make the details pop and to hide imperfections in the paint job as well.

Agreed. Nice job.

 

[JKim]

Great work on the cockpit!

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[al49]

Very nice job so far.
In my files I found three pictures of your bird (the original one) and a fourth of 154th Gruppo, here they are:

Worth of notice is that they have camouflages of different pattern.
Alberto

 

[rochie]

Looks great

 

[al49]

Checking in my books I also found this page showing a 396 Squadriglia bird with typical smoke ring camouflage and a three views plate with the one you are planning to build with a typical Siai-Ambrosini camouflage.

I hope they can be of some help.
Alberto

 

[chris brown]

Thanks for those pics Alberto, they will definitely help when it comes time for the camo.

 

[destrozas]

great stuff alberto

 

[al49]

You welcome!
Now you have just to decide if you prefer the smoke rings or the other camou.
About smoke rings, if you are interested, they are also available in decal form form Tauro, see here:

list. taur.dec.access.

Cheers
Alberto

 

[chris brown]

No smoke rings for me. I picked Jusi in particular so I wouldn't have to try and paint them. I think I stand a better chance with the solid blotches.

 

[Rogi]

Looking great the Hasegawa kits are excellent (I have the 205 myself ) excellent work so far

 

[Wurger]

Yep.. nice stuff here.

Hawever the Photobucket site shows us again how it is great. Chris if you would be so kind, please re-upload these pictures here into our server. Thanks to that we can see them but not the very interesting message of the sh!t photobucket site.

 

[javlin]

looking good their Chris

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Chris.

 

[Catch22]

Great start Chris.

 

[Wayne Little]

Looking forward to this one getting done!

 

[chris brown]

Me too Wayne!

 

[chris brown]

A quick update here. I got the cockpit glued up and the fuselage halves glued together. Everything highlighted in black in the next couple of pics needs to be scraped off, filled in or plugged to back date this to a series IV plane. That's if I'm reading the drawings I found correctly. If anybody has any better info, feel free to share. Not shown in the pics is the ends of the elevators need to be re-scibed to remove the counter balance that was added to later series machines.

Thats all for now. Thanks for looking.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Catch22]

Cool!