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1/72 Sword Fiat G.55 "Gigi Tre Osei"


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Dear fellow Britmodellers,

this is my 1/72 Sword Fiat G.55 of 2. Gruppo, 1. Squadriglia, flown by Ten. Drago at Cascina Vaga airfield, in May 1944.

Built for the "Italian design special display" at the upcoming IPMS GoModelling show (March 9-10, 2019).

I added photo-etch seatbelts from MPM and resin upgrades from AP Modely.

Painted with Gunze/Mr.Hobby acrylics, representing the so-called "experimental splinter scheme".

All photographs by Wolfgang Rabel.

 

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The round squadron batch on the nose has wrong color, it is too light.

It should actually be dark green.

 

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Thank you very much for your interest in this topic.

Best greetings from Vienna!

 

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3 minutes ago, VG 33 said:

Very nice Roman. This one is also on my to do list. Last year at ModelBrno there were double kit Sword boxes.😉

Patrick

 

Indeed, Patrick - this is build #2 from the box.

This was #1 (finished in summer 2017):

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Hi My Friend Roman!!!

Finally after sorting a lot of trouble can reach the place to watch this last gem you have created...

Congratulations for this last masterpiece you have done!!! I was watching Black 6 with its nice grey camouflage, this one is a great build, but think that even though you said the Gigi tre Osei badge is lighter than would be,  really the very best of both and for me, the better of the two is Black 7!!! I like the aircraft a huge lot and think that building this one for sure would choose the very attractive and wonderful cammo  you chose!!!

 

Also, liked a huge lot the soft weathering you have used in this build, specially the way this effect looks in the very clear colors, without a doubt when have the pleasure to try my hand in a build of this aircraft yours will be the mandatory reference to try to get a  nice model.

 

Thank you very much for sharing!!!

 

Cheers,

 

Luis Alfonso  

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