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Another model of the MC72, this time from the horrid Delta 2 kit. A build from 2016, after I had made the scratchbuild model of it, and before I built the SBS wonderful kit: It was 1973. Delta 2, the Italian kit manufacturer was perpetrating the kit of the Macchi M.C. 72. How that atrocity escaped the full force of the law, it's a mystery in the history of kit manufacturing. In my long modeling life I came across some pretty nasty kits, but this one is up there at the top. Or at the bottom, depending how do you look at it. What I mean, this is a disgrace of a kit. Not even "la mamma" will love it. So much so that I scratchbuilt one some time ago- But no good deed goes unpunished, so how did I come across this nasty little kit? You guessed! It was sent by Zonke, the Evil Genius from Volkania (actually Sönke Schulz, from Marzipanland). He did it again, trying to torture me with horrible kits, many times half-built...sigh. Below is how this kit arrived from him: he had joined several parts, the fuselage for example, with no interior (making it for me even more complicated to install one), he assembled the floats and covered them with putty (the least those despicable parts deserved, by the way), and half-sanded these things. Well, thanks again, Z, once more you had made it more difficult. And I love to sand what you have left un-sanded! did I tell you? The prop axle was missing. There is a decal sheet that (surprisingly) seems usable, and a piece of clear plastic sheet stapled to the instructions to fashion the windscreen, I am told by Mr. Psarras, the kit expert in residence. This abomination of kit was concocted AT THE SAME TIME, THE SAME YEAR, that the Airfix Sopwith Pup I built in parallel; please compare: The engineering of this Delta 2 awful kit is incomprehensible. Once more we have to persuade a wildly crooked thing into a fair model, kissing the sleeping beauty back to life (sleeping beauty is having a really bad nightmare in this case).- 10 replies
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