fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 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). 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John R Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 So why did you do it when you had a perfectly satisfactory scratchbuilt one? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 26, 2019 Author Share Posted March 26, 2019 16 minutes ago, John R said: So why did you do it when you had a perfectly satisfactory scratchbuilt one? I dared myself to face the horror of the Delta 2 kit... ...that my dear friend the Ebil Genius Sönke sent me , while stroking his cat and laughing cryptically so: Mwahahahah! I fear no kit. But I despise many. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John R Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 I share your feelings as I once managed to wrestle a Delta 2 Campini Caproni to the ground. I had to lash the fuselage halves to a metal bar and soak them in hot water remove the warps. Just after finishing it I found that Valom had issued one. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 10 hours ago, John R said: I share your feelings as I once managed to wrestle a Delta 2 Campini Caproni to the ground. I had to lash the fuselage halves to a metal bar and soak them in hot water remove the warps. Just after finishing it I found that Valom had issued one. John Well, John, I have one of those in the stash, and may be you didn't do that bad after all, since the Valom kit is not exactly a paradigm of accuracy, nor a fit marvel, but granted: no rivets 😉 Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John R Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Did you see my builds of both versions? Each awful in its own way. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 1 hour ago, John R said: Did you see my builds of both versions? Each awful in its own way. John I saw them just now, John, you are a brave soul, but heck, you have now two of them! And they are fair builds with lots of appeal. Cheers to that! Meanwhile, Delta 2 kits will still be used by the Forces of Kaos to drive modellers nuts. They should be declared weapons of mass disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Ugly duckling into graceful swan: only this one did not grow naturally, it was forced to change. Once again your skill and patience shows through in a wonderful colourful model. P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Gruntfuttock Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 That is a remarkable effort from such an awful kit Mr Moa. I spent a lot of time and considerable expense finding the Delta2 kit and then discovering how crude it was. Sold it on at great loss and then spent another fortune getting the sublime SBS resin kit. Best not let 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' know any of that! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 58 minutes ago, Horatio Gruntfuttock said: That is a remarkable effort from such an awful kit Mr Moa. I spent a lot of time and considerable expense finding the Delta2 kit and then discovering how crude it was. Sold it on at great loss and then spent another fortune getting the sublime SBS resin kit. Best not let 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' know any of that! Such is the nature of tempestuous love: things seem possible and even desirable, then disillusion settles in. And money is lost. But you have found, finally, like me, true love: the SBS kit (I posted mine here somewhere). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Gruntfuttock Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Moa said: Such is the nature of tempestuous love: things seem possible and even desirable, then disillusion settles in. And money is lost. But you have found, finally, like me, true love: the SBS kit (I posted mine here somewhere). Is it really that weird? Oh dear! Some people build models, I just have this compulsion to touch aircraft - Im up to around 100 different types now - even keep a record of them, and try to build models of the ones I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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