s00ntir Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I will not repeat the historical or technical description of this beautiful aircraft. I will just focus on the build. This now out of pruduction PCM kit is of really good quality - as for a short run. Glossy hard plastic with recessed panel lines, very good resin parts, photo-etched fret plus decals. First of all - the kit is not difficult. As with any short run, of course, you need to clean the parts carefully and check the fit several times before gluing parts together. The wings trailing edges are quite thick and require some sanding. The propeller spinner also needed adjustments - the holes for the propeller blades were far too large. The shape of it should also be improved - but I decided to accept it. The entire model was riveted - thousands of "rivets" - especially on the wings. In fact, it turned out to be much easier than I thought - although for a few days "I saw rivets everywhere" ;-). A certain challenge was to make negative rivets on the wings and positive rivets on the fuselage. The solution is ridiculously simple - traces of riveting on the wings should be treated with very fine sandpaper and "painted" gently with Tamiya extra thin cement to clean them. Rivets on the fuselage - well... I just left them as they were after using Rosie the Riveter. I assumed that airbrushing them with Mr. Surfacer 1500 will give a good final result. And it worked. A very simple and efficient method. For the first time, I used black basing - I think the method is great. Uniform camouflage is always difficult - but here I managed to build subtle differences in shades, colors and depth. The model was painted entirely with MRP paints with partial use of Montex masks. Weathering was kept to minimum - those birds served just for several weeks. Entirely out of the box build with quite good - from my point of view - result. By the way - it was very hard to take good pictures - due to almost glossy finish, poor light and my very modest skills. 23 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Very good representation of my favorite from the Serie"5". Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddahbill Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Very well done! Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armorrich Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 That's a real beauty!!! Not sure which side i like better...the top or the bottom!!! I love the stenciling and light dust effect but the underside is just great looking also. Extremely well done. Cheers...Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in a shed Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Such a good looking aircraft and what a model! Fabulous. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s00ntir Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 8 hours ago, Armorrich said: That's a real beauty!!! Not sure which side i like better...the top or the bottom!!! I love the stenciling and light dust effect but the underside is just great looking also. Extremely well done. Cheers...Rich Oh, thank you Sir! Light dust effect was done using "Light dust" by Ammo Mig 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s00ntir Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 9 hours ago, Zigomar said: Very good representation of my favorite from the Serie"5". Cheers. Thank you! I really do appreciate you oppinion. Happy modelling - especially "Italian" 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiampieroSilvestri Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Beautiful Reggiane Re2005! Saluti Giampiero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 1 hour ago, GiampieroSilvestri said: Beautiful Reggiane Re2005! Saluti Giampiero +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeusa Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 This is a great looking finished kit. The painting is so well done. Just a real beaut. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rom1 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 great job on that beautiful fighter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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