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Romeo Ro 1 , Regia Aeronautica, 1935-36 War in Abyssinia, LF 1/72


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Hi,

One of the most important airplane of twenties and early thirties of XX Century was Fokker CV. It was a true workhorse comparable with Potez XXV, Fairey III  family, Breguet XIX or Hawker Hart family... Italy was producing Fokker CVE under name IMAM/Romeo Ro-1. They almost did not survived in Regia Aeronautica till the outbreak of WW2, however took important part in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War (SIAW) which started in 1935. The Czech small short run company made a series of kits of Fokker CVD and CVE (with diffrent engines, undercarriages, decals etc). It is a remake of a wider in some aspects range of resin kits by they sister company Kora.  Interesting modification of Ro -1 compared to original CVE was additional third seat behind the gunner position. It was done in almost all colonial used Ro-1s. The model presents machine from SIAW, namely from Squadriglia Somala in 1936, based on that  photo:

 

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Here she is:

 

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The model was build within AFRICA GB, the WIP thread is here (joined with thread on Fiat CR 20 bis):

 

 

Comments welcome

Regards

Jerzy-Wojtek

 

P.S. this is mine No 8/2021 :) 

 

 

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  • JWM changed the title to Romeo Ro 1 , Regia Aeronautica, 1935-36 War in Abyssinia, LF 1/72
18 minutes ago, Fin said:

What kit is this? The one by LF Models?

Thank your.

Yes. This is LF injected kit, I ordered in shop  that box (which includes decals for war in Abyssinia)

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 but I received another box with "continental" Italy interwar decals only. Therefore I did the scheme based only on a photo...

 

17 minutes ago, John Masters said:

First rate!  Love those 'Between the Wars' aircraft.

Thank you! Indeed, they are nice. I included to my range of interest wars right before WW2 like those in Abyssinia, Spanish in China, to have more chances to do some of those nice biplanes...BTW - those wars were really the preludia to WW2, for example in Abyssinia it went very smoothly into war with Britain in Africa horn (1940-41)

 

Regards

J-W

 

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