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That's Amore (Italian GB) Jan 1-June 30 2012

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Posted by Nathan T on Friday, December 30, 2011 9:22 PM

DoogsATX

Alright. I'll be doing the Fiat G.55. It's currently soaking in the sink. Tigerman, I hope you don't mind if I make a small start on it - I'd rather try to bust into it while I still have the bit between my teeth. Otherwise I might get distracted by something shiny!

As for schemes...oh god yes this one:

http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy86/doogsatx/Aircraft/PCM%20Fiat%20G55%20Centauro/2156ebe0.jpg

Doogs thats awesome! What are you planning on doing for colors? I'm having a tough time hunting down colors for my Macchi and crossing the Italian names to FS numbers and Gunze paints.

 

 

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Posted by DoogsATX on Friday, December 30, 2011 9:27 PM

Nathan T

 

 DoogsATX:

 

Alright. I'll be doing the Fiat G.55. It's currently soaking in the sink. Tigerman, I hope you don't mind if I make a small start on it - I'd rather try to bust into it while I still have the bit between my teeth. Otherwise I might get distracted by something shiny!

As for schemes...oh god yes this one:

http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy86/doogsatx/Aircraft/PCM%20Fiat%20G55%20Centauro/2156ebe0.jpg

 

 

Doogs thats awesome! What are you planning on doing for colors? I'm having a tough time hunting down colors for my Macchi and crossing the Italian names to FS numbers and Gunze paints.

Model Master has a line of paints for the Regio Aeronautica. Only four...but they happen to be the exact four I need (save the yellow, which I can improvise).

http://www.testors.com/category/136453/WWII_Italian_Colors

Unless I can work out some equivalencies in Gunze, I'll probably go that route.

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by DoogsATX on Friday, December 30, 2011 9:31 PM

There's also always White Ensign...though I've had a rough time getting them to spray well. Big coats...like Russian 4BO green on a T-34? That's easy. But I can't get the stuff as silky as I can Tamiya, Gunze or even MM. Though...their color accuracy cannot be beat.

https://www.whiteensignmodels.com/c/WWII+Regia+Aeronautica+Colours/252/1/

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, December 30, 2011 9:40 PM

well I have kits in all catagories: Modern, WWI, and WWII, land sea and air, but since it seems like you have a dearth of land subjects I am leaning towards this one... something up my alley Wink 4WD firepower

 

 

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Posted by tigerman on Friday, December 30, 2011 9:55 PM

Thank goodness, something armor related. Wink

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 Eric 

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, December 30, 2011 9:59 PM

The Italian version of "Rat Patrol"... and from what I have read they were pretty good tooWink if I can ever get my hands on the Sahariana with the 20mm Breda I will snatch it up too...

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by tigerman on Friday, December 30, 2011 10:46 PM

Getting a little jazzed. My beautiful RB model AM barrel should be here in a couple of days. Huge, huge improvement over the kit one.

I'm going to wash my sprues. The one drawback to my build, 48 wheels with rubber. Dead

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 Eric 

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Posted by bondoman on Friday, December 30, 2011 11:07 PM

Too quick for me.

 

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Posted by tigerman on Friday, December 30, 2011 11:56 PM

A little inspiration for the GB:

Sophia 

Gina

 

That's Amore!

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 Eric 

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Posted by Italian Starfighter on Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:40 AM

Take a look....................Ciao Enrico.

 


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v381/tigerman12/ThatsAmoreGBBadge.jpg

 

 

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Posted by DoogsATX on Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:53 AM

Italian Starfighter

Take a look....................Ciao Enrico.

 

http://www.pdani.it/public/KIKKO/Colori%20Regia%20.jpg

Excellent Enrico! 

One of the PCM kits has a paint chart that lists MM as well if anyone needs.

Quick question - is verde anticorrosione the interior cockpit green? The Fiat G.55 manual calls for interior green, and in pics I've found, it looks similarish to US interior green, but slightly yellower and lighter.

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by DoogsATX on Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:58 AM

Couldn't resist some mild cleanup and test-fitting last night.

Overall, not bad at all for a limited run kit. The fuselage fit is very good, with no crazy gaps or steps. Though the stabilizer join is going to be, well, tricky:

The other fun part's going to be the wings. Five parts. Uppers, lowers, and a center section. The gear bays join to a wing spar that will allegedly lend some support to the proceedings, but I may add some strip styrene along the bottom join for some internal strengthening.

Here's a view of how fun that area's going to be!

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by tigerman on Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:42 AM

I must admit that the look of those inline Italian fighters have really caught my eye over the past year. I don't know much about them, so i should bone up on their stats.

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 Eric 

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Posted by Italian Starfighter on Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:59 AM

@DoogAtX:Yes The verde anticorrosione is cockpit green and your consideration on shades are right.The right one is 34227

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v381/tigerman12/ThatsAmoreGBBadge.jpg

 

 

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Posted by jgeratic on Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:38 AM

Regarding Italian paint colours, there is the site STORMO and if you go to their paint section, they list different paint brands (including Model Master) and only the appropriate Italian shades.  Unlike the WEM site, those paints are listed along with the corresponding FS number.

regards,

Jack

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Posted by VanceCrozier on Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:59 AM

hmmmmm, I'll be lurking for sure - possibly entering the fray at a later time. Not sure what I have in the stash that could qualify...

DoogsATX - nice choice, that is the kit I would have thrown my vote at if I'd seen your post earlier. Love that scheme as well. Yes

On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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Posted by Nathan T on Saturday, December 31, 2011 4:16 PM

Italian Starfighter thanks! that helps alot but i'm still missing a few, like verde minemetco 2 and 3. I might post questions later when i have my research at hand.

Doogs, yes WEM has some great color accuracy but like you said, they airbrush and dry weird, I only use gunze for base colors because they are flawless in every way. That fiat is huge! especially compared to my 1 48 Saetta, thats gotta be the smallest 1 48 i've ever built. And man, I thought german camo was interesting. Tigerman this is going to be a sweet group build!

 

 

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Posted by jgeratic on Saturday, December 31, 2011 5:35 PM

verde minemetco 2   = FS34092

verde minemetco 3   = FS34102

Both these paint colours are available in the following brands: Floquil, Gunze Sangyo, Humbrol, Life Color and Testors.

regards,

Jack

 

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Posted by Italian Starfighter on Saturday, December 31, 2011 5:40 PM

Hi modeller,good year....this is a colour chart of a recently new italian brand : Puravest Toffano.They are acrylic,very good ....I don't know if are sold in yours country.......You can try on the net.I suggest to buy their proper thinner......Their italian colour are in my opinion among the best.......

 



img]http://www.pdani.it/public/KIKKO/Toffano%20paints1.jpg[/img]

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Posted by tigerman on Saturday, December 31, 2011 7:43 PM

Nathan T

Italian Starfighter thanks! that helps alot but i'm still missing a few, like verde minemetco 2 and 3. I might post questions later when i have my research at hand.

Doogs, yes WEM has some great color accuracy but like you said, they airbrush and dry weird, I only use gunze for base colors because they are flawless in every way. That fiat is huge! especially compared to my 1 48 Saetta, thats gotta be the smallest 1 48 i've ever built. And man, I thought german camo was interesting. Tigerman this is going to be a sweet group build!

I think so Nathan. I often think that Italian subjects get overlooked. During my Blitzkrieg in the West GB, myself and a whole group of modelers built their first French armor. We learned a lot! I have a new respect for their vehicles. 

This should be very informative and fun. Besides, I like those cool logos on the wings. Yes that should be incorporated with the Italian flag in the badge. Hopefully someone has some designer talent.

   http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

 Eric 

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Posted by bsyamato on Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:04 PM

tigerman

This should be very informative and fun. Besides, I like those cool logos on the wings. Yes that should be incorporated with the Italian flag in the badge. Hopefully someone has some designer talent.

please don't but the wings signs on the italian flags, origin of these signs are really honorable ("fascio imperiale" weapon sign from old Roman Emperor) but politics that had ideas to use this sign was absolutely not honorable .... (IMHO) .

This logo is just two stylized Roman emperor weapon age ,one inverted respect the other one. The weapon was formed by a beam of birch rods that sustain an axe.

USA used this sign too

 please think another idea for the badge.

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Posted by tigerman on Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:09 PM

Okay. I had no idea of the origin. I just thought they looked cool.

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 Eric 

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Posted by DoogsATX on Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:47 PM

bsyamato

 

 tigerman:

 

This should be very informative and fun. Besides, I like those cool logos on the wings. Yes that should be incorporated with the Italian flag in the badge. Hopefully someone has some designer talent.

 

 

please don't but the wings signs on the italian flags, origin of these signs are really honorable ("fascio imperiale" weapon sign from old Roman Emperor) but politics that had ideas to use this sign was absolutely not honorable .... (IMHO) .

This logo is just two stylized Roman emperor weapon age ,one inverted respect the other one. The weapon was formed by a beam of birch rods that sustain an axe.

USA used this sign too

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Mercury_dime_reverse.jpg

 please think another idea for the badge.

Sorry to barge in here, but I'm a student of Roman history, and there's more to the fasces than spelled out here. I figure since this is the Italian GB, a few of y'all might be interested in some deeper history around the bundle of sticks.

The fasces actually date to the earliest history of Rome - a lot of classicists believe they're originally of Etruscan origin. They were carried by the lictors who preceded first the kings, then the magistrates of the Republic. They carried a twofold symbolism. The bundle of birch rods represented the authority of corporal punishment. The axe - capital punishment (as in...beheading). During the Republic, magisterial lictors did not carry the axe within the border of Rome itself, as the power over life and death rested with the people and the assemblies. Save when a dictator was appointed to oversee some emergency.

The fasces are easily one of the most recognizable symbols of Roman power, matched only by the eagle. The early and middle Roman Republic had massive influence over the founders of the United States, as can be evidenced in everything from early architecture to the structure of government (heck...the Senate) to Washington's returning his sword in obvious imitation of Cincinnatus. The fasces were essentially shorthand for republicanism.

When Mussolini rose to power, he too appropriated the fasces for his own ends, along with dreams and rhetoric of refounding the Roman Empire. Not entirely unlike the way many modern politicians in the US appropriate the flag or the founding fathers. A difference of degree, certainly, but not really of kind.

Anyway, that appropriation of the fasces is where the term fascism originated.

On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:55 PM

if the fasces areout, I think Sophia is a great idea...Idea

Stick out tongueWink

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by tigerman on Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:29 PM

stikpusher

if the fasces areout, I think Sophia is a great idea...Idea

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJLtJPe8Mr4/Tk5oTUtHQZI/AAAAAAAATQo/0n5GvJ74xmA/s400/Sophia-Loren-Photograph-C10048317.jpg

Stick out tongueWink

Yes

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 Eric 

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Posted by jgeratic on Sunday, January 1, 2012 5:02 AM

Been working steady nights for a number of years now. That and combined with it being new years didn't feel sleepy.  So took the above image of Sophia and came up with this.  Suggestions are welcome, or if anyone wants to copy it and work on it further, by all means you're welcome to it.

regards,

Jack

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, January 1, 2012 5:22 AM

Well that certainly looks better than John Cleese speaking Italian in A Fish Called Wanda... Wink

And no man can argue with Sophia...Stick out tongue

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by bsyamato on Sunday, January 1, 2012 6:22 AM

don't worry about Tigerman Wink 

Thanx Doogs for the complete explain Yes i try just to do a resume, was not able to write a better explanation in english Embarrassed ( also i write at 4:00 am after new year celebrations Dead )

btw the Sophia badge is more delightful , good work jgeratic1 Yes and the pictures looks better than fasces Stik Stick out tongue

Coming to the Veltro, i brought it in Rome during a brief visit about 3 years ago.

box art and markings (kit includes 3 option markings ,all 3 the "v" version )

The Veltro as you can see is close to mc-202 looking, is an improving of the folgore: better weapons , better engine and others improvements here and there and contends with G-55 and RE-2005 the  title of WW2 best italian fighter 

sprues and pieces (i cut some unwished sprue to save space)

Molds are not old and finally shows recessed panels ,not in picture but clear parts are good and with open canopy option!!

wings engineering tell me cut some flaps Stick out tongue the wells will be removed as the real one shows no caps in this zone 


need to make some research but general shapes seems correct.

test fitting

Academy razorback dimension comparison.

Planned mods are ip improvements (kit includes decals Dead ) well detailing and some flying surface cutted.

at the next Toast




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Posted by tigerman on Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:48 PM

jgeratic1

Been working steady nights for a number of years now. That and combined with it being new years didn't feel sleepy.  So took the above image of Sophia and came up with this.  Suggestions are welcome, or if anyone wants to copy it and work on it further, by all means you're welcome to it.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL165/1109940/23986293/400320212.jpg

regards,

Jack

I must say it's quite eye-catching. I like it. What's more Italian then the Tri-colors and Sophia Loren? Thank you for the designing it Jack. If anyone has some critiques please feel free to air them and we could tweak it.

Don'tknow if I'll get started today or not. I might glue the hull together. Most of the work will go into the roadwheels.

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 Eric 

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Posted by bsyamato on Sunday, January 1, 2012 5:11 PM

to me the badge is enough attractive tigerman Cool Jack only a thing if you have again the working files, a refine on thce sophia contours to eliminate the white line around, flag image is really good and the written pop up clear Yes 

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