JWM Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) Hi, I slowed down posting content of my shelves, because I started to made some sctrach conversions, which I posting on WIP forum. And one have to work also... Today I will try to present something very special for me. This is one of only few models in my collection, which are scrach conversion made out of epoxy resin, in which I used copies of main model parts done by myself. This was the first attempt. One I alredy posted - it was Airspeed Envoy, which I prepared making copies of key parts (like wings) of Airspeed Oxford from Pavla. The model presents Caproni Ca 309 Ghibli, This was so called "colonial" airplane - designed for transport but also for some small battles like estinguishing revolts... Its precursor was Caproni Ca 308 - a small passanger aircraft. The next was Caproni 310 - bomber followed by series of further developments Ca311-314. The main source of copied parts was then Caproni 311 by Italeri. Ca 309 has similar dimentions but much tight fuselage and dfferent, smaller engines as well as fixed u/c nay many other changies. Clear parts are some glued from separate windows (as I shown in Percival Gull post in WIP) and nose glass was home made by means of pressing it by purposely made mould. There is a small story behind this my conversion. In one show of models in Krakow's Museum of Aviation I shown Kaproni-Bulgaria KB 11 Fazan - made completly out of scratch (I posted her in September in RFI). And one collegue, who was in Jury of this contest told me - "Fazan is a vey intersting model. But there was another Bulgarian Caproni (or rather Kaproni - Bulgarian branch was written by "K" , since they use cyrilics) - this was a licence version of Ca 309. It would be something if you can do this for next contest". So I tried. But instead of rather dull Bulgarian dark green/light blue camo I made it in original Italian markings. And it became one of a laureate next year (but not the first prize)... The markings are from 104 Squadron, 1 Gr. A.P.C. (whatever it menas), North Africa 1940-41, Reggia Aeronautica. Painting by brush (dry brush to imitate spraying). Decals by ESCI from different sets of Italian airplanes. Please enjoy it and comments welcomed! Regards Jerzy-Wojtek Edited July 23, 2017 by JWM Switch to Flickr 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I find the Ca309 more attractive than its larger brethren, it's nice to see one. I Gr APC: I can get most of it. Gr = Gruppo (I guess you know that bit) A will be Autonomo = independent The C will be Coloniale = Colonial. I might guess that the P stands for Patrol, whatever the Italian is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Thank you Graham for this hint! Cheers J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascal JMW Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Fantastic ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch K Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Beautiful piece of work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcanicity Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Very nice! I've learnt a new aeroplane type thanks to this! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Congratulation Jerzy Wonderful job on the paintwork, and always nice to see an aircraft I haven't seen before. Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Monday Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Modelling in its purest form. A great build of a very attractive aeroplane. BM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darby Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Very nice scratch job and named after a local wind as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Looks AMAZING in those colorful camoflage markings.. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 Thank you very much for positive feedback. Appreciated Cheers Jerzy-Wojtek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Very interesting to see a precursor to the Ca.313, which I have a special realitionship to. A prime example of skilful, inventive and inspired modelling! Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 Thank you Joachim I have also a "soft spot" on this Caproni series. I have four of them : 309, 310,311 and 313...I intending to post them all, but I need some time (doing photos etc...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaudioN Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 If I remember correctly, A.P.C. means "Aviazione Presidio Coloniale", that roughly translates into Colonial Forces Aviation. By the way, Gr. stands for "Gruppo", as Graham already said, and Sq. for "Squadriglia". An RAF Squadron is typically bigger than a Squadriglia. In numerical terms, Regia Aeronautica units were closer to the German structure, with Squadriglia strength similar to a Staffel and Gruppo to the German Gruppe. Nice model, congratulations for your skill! Claudio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 Thank you Claudio for explanation and comment Cheers Jerzy-Wojtek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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