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Hispano Aviación Ha220D "Super Saeta"


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Hi all.....I'd like to show you my latest finished kit. It's the Scratchaeronautics' 1/48 resin kit of the nimble spanish jet. An original design from Willy Messerschmitt while working for the spanish company La Hispano Aviación de Sevilla, S.A., rhe original two seater, trainer design led way to an improved, co-in single seater, called "Super Saeta". The rear seat was removed and an auxiliary fuel tank was added, improving the range of the plane. Other modifications were the adition of two undernose gun pods, containing 20mm Hispano guns, and up to four underwing pods, able to carry a varied load of rockets or jettisonable napalm tanks.

Their swan song was during the early to mid seventies, carrying out armed patrol missions over the Western Spanish Sahara against moroccan supported insurgents and moroccan army alike.

From 1975 onwards, after the Spanish withdrawal from those territories, the spanish Ejército del Aire carried on armed patrols and escort missions over the Canary Islands' territorial waters, protecting spanish fishing and merchant vessels from the moroccan and Frente Polisario insurgents attacks.

 

The kit was built OOB, with the only exception of some belts made from lead foil. It was painted with Humbrol enamels and slightly weathered with pastel chalks.

I hope you'll like it. As usual, any comment will be welcome.

Best wishes....

 

45779432031_164e8a553a_z.jpgIMGP0008 by Arturo Navarro, en Flickr

 

44866348225_ca6b5f9162_z.jpgIMGP0010 by Arturo Navarro, en Flickr

 

45779421081_821173e7c0_z.jpgIMGP0012 by Arturo Navarro, en Flickr

 

31907942818_2a452d2b19_z.jpgIMGP0011 by Arturo Navarro, en Flickr

 

43962053660_5025f515a8_z.jpgIMGP0014 by Arturo Navarro, en Flickr

 

 

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That colour scheme was known as "lagarto" (lizard) in Spanish air force....It was a standard camouflage used in most of the planes (except fighters) up untill the late 80s to mid 90s...

 

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Excellent model of a prototype that I didn't know even existed!

 

Those dark, soft shades over every panel joint – what are they supposed to imitate? I know they seem to be in vogue among some modellers, but to me they look more like routine imitation of a mannerism than a portrayal of actual weathering effects of the environment on a flying machine. 😉

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

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20 hours ago, Spitfire31 said:

to me they look more like routine imitation of a mannerism than a portrayal of actual weathering effects of the environment on a flying machine. 😉

You're right. Scale model building is nothing else than that....all the models I've seen follow certain "fashions", some of them seemed like toys, others looked absolutely over weathered, others seem simply plain....but it's up to anyones' taste building the models the way they most like. I don't build two models the same way, and try to avoid certain trends....maybe I'm too lazy to do so..or probably not so skilled as I'd wish.

In fact, what you see aren't dark shades over the panel lines (another free interpretation, panels lines shouldn't be visible in any scale model), I lightened the colour on the center panel areas, trying to represent a faded hue. I always give a first coat of dark grey primer, and then start with the final camouflage colours. Overdone effect...???? Probably, but I'm quite happy with the result...☺️

By the way, I've rarely seen a true protrayal of actual weathering effects....whenever a modeller marks a rivet, a panel line, etc...he's just mimicking something, with a grade of succes that runs from "toy like" to "just rescued from the bottom of a pond" .....

 

Cheers...

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23 hours ago, Artie said:

todos los modelos que he visto siguen ciertas "modas", algunos de ellos parecían juguetes, otros parecían absolutamente exagerados, otros parecían simples ...



I agree with you, absolutely.

And if I have to choose between this magnificent representation of an airplane to a piece of plastic, or resin that for the case is the same ..., packed with paint without the slightest aspect of a real object reduced in size, I'm sure I'll choose your way of making models.

Congratulations.

Regards

 

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