Savoia Marchetti SM 55 X, Spanish Civil War, by Delta 2 in 1/72

[JWM]

Hi,

The third my model build within Flying Boats and Floatplanes GB II, the Savoia SM 55 X. Kit by Delta 2 (Italy). Scheme for Italian machine which was shortly used during Spanish Civil War, based in Mallorca, 1937.

The construction thread is here:

Here she is:

 

 

 

This increased my SCW set to 41  :

 

Comments welcome

Regards

Jerzy Wojtek

 

I wish All - Have a Merry Christmas!

 

 

Edited December 21, 2019 by JWM
mispelling corrections

[alt-92]

That is some collection of Spanish Civil War aircraft... 
Those machine gun pits on the outboard wings must have been a bit awkward to sit in during patrols!

[Cariado]

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! They don't build them like they used to. That's a great model of a really nice plane.

[rossm]

I like that a lot!

[Toryu]

Fantastic model! I’m very attached to such strange flying machines, and water aircraft, and the thirties, and the Spanish Civil War period. Great collection.

 

On 21/12/2019 at 12:19, alt-92 said:

Those machine gun pits on the outboard wings must have been a bit awkward to sit in during patrols!

They could crawl through the wing into the fuselage.
 

 

[Vinnie]

Nicely done, JW. I haven't seen one of these before. 

[RMCS]

Wow 

[John Masters]

Great build and a superb collection!

[RicardoD]

Hard to believe this thing really flew  Nice model and a great collection.

[invidia]

Fantastic looking model. 

[Courageous]

Great work there Jerzy with the SM 55X and your ever growing SCW collection looks great too.

 

Stuart

[Roberto]

Lovely build, and that collection is just stunnig. Bravo.

[Buzby061]

Lovely job on an incredible looking aircraft.

 

Pete

[IanC]

What a fabulous model, and collection Jerzy.

 

Merry Christmas to you too.

[JWM]

Thank you very much for comments.  Currently there is Dora Wings kit of early variant of SM-55, much more available then this Delta-2 short run (and much nicer to work with, I supouse). The SM 55A is announced also by Dora, and this variant was still in service in Romania during WWII - I am considering to do the second SM-55 with Romanian crosses this time...