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Hi, Some vacu forms for today from my shelvs. And fighters, not secondliners. First is S.A.I. Ambrosini 207. She is in markings of 74 Escadrilla, 3 Stormo, 23 Gruppo, Regia Aeronautica, Cerveteri, Italy, July 1943. Markings are taken from a profile by Richard Ward, from a book "50 Fighters 1939-45", Aircam No. S17, Osprey Ltd, via Wing Palette. I am writing this full reference here, since no other sources about use of this type in 74 Escadrilla are know to me. S.A.I. 207 - This was a fighter - an example of concept of "light fighter": - like Caudron 714 or Miles M 20. All those concepts became not sucessfull, indeed. S.A.I 207, like others, saw also very limited use. One can read more about this type here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosini_SAI.207 Now there is a nice kit of Ambrosini 207 in RS in 1/72 scale. However - I did this model many years before RS released it... it was in 1996. As basis I used a vacu model by Modelland - but this was model of next Ambrosini design - S.A.I. 403 Dardo. Dardo was just a single prototype. I basicly exclude prototypes from my collection, just to have some limits of my interest to models of military airplanes from 1935-45. With prototypes I will have to end up with 1000 models in stash... Here is this vacu form kit: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/72-ambrosini-sai-403-dardo-vacu-153029318 S.A.I. 403 was develpment of S.A.I 207 - its differs with wing, tail, front of fuselage... . Only. The conversion was a scratch work. One can compare plans for both S.A.I Ambrosini (207 and 403) and read more about this interesting and rather forgotten family of Italian fighters here: http://www.aviastar.org/air/italy/ambrosini_s-403.php http://www.aviastar.org/air/italy/ambrosini_s-207.php Comments welcomed Best regards Jerzy-Wojtek- 10 replies
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