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Very nice result! I hope to shiw here mine as well... Cheers J-W

Very nice! Which paints have you used? Especially I like the shade of brown...

Sorted - I have found this Walk-Around pile of photos https://ipms.nl/walkarounds/walkaround-vliegtuigen-props/savoia-marchetti-s55#&gid=1&pid=21

I have doubts how the control cables to ailerons and elevator goes on SM 55. To elevator they goes along the boom on the inbourd side, but how or where they cross the surface and goes inside the cabin? I suspect but I am not sure that to ailerons they goes also on an external side of wings, so on surface, like in many early airplanes however I cannot find any picture where it cross the surface... Any help please...

OK, I think I 've got your point. So the intake should; be is some way shifted upward or squeezed upward. Cheers J-W

here is D9 intake or https://media.defense.gov/2015/Jul/28/2001264690/2000/2000/0/150727-F-IO108-006.JPG The intake is I think oval not circle. What else is a problem? Regards J-W

Hi I added MGs, driving elements of control surfaces (I do not know the proper name even in Polish, otherwise I will use the google translator to fine proper term in English...) and applied first layer of Mat varnish (Vallejo) Only torpedo left to attach and corrections of painting... BTW - the Romanian torpedo is the Italian one - do they have a special color for warhead? The hull-wing fairings in Sm 66 looks better, I think: Howewver some small correction must be done. So it goes slowly, but goes Regards J-W

Sorry, I overlooked this question,... WhatI can tell is just about the damaged rudder - indeed it looks like a damaged horn balance of rudder. Cloudio, I cannot confirm, but from the huge difference in darkness I will vote for 71/02/65. Regards J-W

Some Caproni 310 have similar fairings https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VP8AAOSwan5c5qMa/s-l1600.jpg Some other does not have it https://www.airhistory.net/photos/0622063.jpg

Such holed fairings were common in early 1930s US machines like Boeing P12 and P26, early 247, Ford Trimotor, Nortrop Gamma....all with ring, not NACA cowling. I agree that with cowling it is not common...The aim must be related to optimal cooling

PZL 37 having also Pegasus engines has also fairing, of another kind a bit, though

Adrian, many thanks! I am still not 100% happy with how it turned out but certainly I can live with it ... Regards J-W

Gracie! Cheers J-W

I started work on MGs at SM 55A With SM 66 I am wrestling with float-wing connection... BTW - I think I will go to black regarding the bottoms of floats/hulls... The machine when was civil had intense blue (I think). But the color looks rather dark... To be cont. Cheers J-W

Below is a documentation of the acting of hydrogen peroxide: before after about 10 days bath: Cheers J-W

Very sad, some books he wrote, just to recall https://www.empik.com/szukaj/produkt?author=belcarz+bartłomiej https://lubimyczytac.pl/autor/39411/bartlomiej-belcarz

p.s. In a set of photos from "AVG, China" there are two photos of such Condor, this is the better of them https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-curtiss-bt-32-condor-71291941.html?imageid=1C3C1A7B-6675-49B5-99A2-B7D2E7D1B0AB&p=238864&pn=5&searchId=4b105c458d2891768e6be852099b3727&searchtype=9 What are the possible colors? Regards J-W

I am iteresting how the five machines captured by Japanese soldiers on Hong-Kong looked like right before this happened. Are they any idea? The second problem is with the China one. Some sources said, that it was lost very fast in 1934, some that it was for some time in use... Moreover some said it was the only one, some that few machines. Where is true? Regards J-W

Hi I sanded the coarse Milliput filler on the transition between the hulls and wing and aply some fine Tamiya putty I started also work on the fins I cut out from a 1 mm thick plastic sheet the fins and gave them final shape holding them together The re is a third rudder visible as well. Glued I am not sure if the rudders are not of to small chord. I will check it tomorrow Regards J-W

What a technique! Impresive. Regards J-W

There was also a Honduras Curtiss Condor lost in 1942 https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-curtiss-ct-32-condor-ii-near-la-masica-5-killed

I think it is older, you may see on right there is a footnote "May 1967". there is also a second page with profiles there is also such set with the same profiles (but smaller selection of them, sorry for small resolution, this is what I have found in Net) Describes as from Air Enthusiast March-June 1978 - so from the mentioned article. Regards J-W .

Some time ago, besides mentioned above I provoked also a second thread on Curtiss Condor And I also found, that there was at least one more older Regards J-W

I glued fuselages/hulls/floats with the wing in SM 66 build: Some Milliput added to fill the gaps I glued booms with tailplane To be continued Regards J-W

I did not known that it is "head" in Engllish... There is a famous story about the vist of a Soviet ambassador in Warsaw in some early communist time. He was visiting some old building (palace) and suddenly asked "where is a toilet here?". The host was trying to be very kind (or ironnic- who knows?) and answered: "for you, excellence? - it can be everywhere! "... Regards J-W