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FIAT CR.42DB Record-Setter Italian Kits Wings IKW7205 Resin + Italeri FIAT CR.42 Injected Kit Conversion 2019







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Reggiane 2001 Isotta Fraschini Delta M.M.9920 2019
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1970s Issue Italaerei Reggiane Re.2001 Injected + Italian Kits Wings IKW-7220 Resin Delta Engine Conversion







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Special Hobby FIAT G.55B Biposto Post-WWII Trainer 2019
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SEM Model IMAM Ro.63 STOL Recce & Transport Resin 2018
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Beautiful work! I didn't know anyone made a Ro. 58 - I look forward to seeing more pictures!

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Great stuff  :smiley:

I remember that Italerei Reggiane Re.2001 kit well from days gone by. But the Delta-powered variant was always a favorite since seeing a photo of it in William Green's War Planes Vol.2!
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Possible Future Posting...
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Great stuff  :smiley:

I remember that Italerei Reggiane Re.2001 kit well from days gone by. But the Delta-powered variant was always a favorite since seeing a photo of it in William Green's War Planes Vol.2!

Aeronautica Macchi C.204, 900hp Isotta Fraschini Asso XI L.121 V-12 Inline, SEM Model 72810 Resin + Hasegawa C.202 Donor Parts 2019


DO wonder why Reggiane didn't use same engine for the 2001?

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Beautiful work! I didn't know anyone made a Ro. 58 - I look forward to seeing more pictures!

KPL & Planet Models kits possibly same mold, SEM Model kit new tooling, never could find former two built latter kit instead.


KORA (LF Models Czech) Aeronautica Macchi C.201
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SEM Model FIAT CANSA FC.12 Multi-Role Combat Prototype Resin
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Re: Possible Future Posting...
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This gets better and better

Love the Macchi C.201 and C.204! The CANSA FC.12 was intriguing ... and made perfect sense as a trainer. Not so sure about as an attack aircraft. Still, amazing to see it in kit form!

DO wonder why Reggiane didn't use same engine for the 2001?

Apparently, that was down to Regia Aeronautica planners who had become obsessed by German-style inverted V-12s. To that end, Isotta Fraschini developed the inverted A.120 R.C.40 from the Asso XI L.121.

By the time that IF got the A.120 underway, DB 601As were already available - first from Germany, then from IF competitor Alfa Romeo with their R.A.1000 R.C.41-I Monsone. After that, Asso engines mainly went into torpedo boats, IIRC.
Froglord: "... amphibious doom descends ... approach the alter and swear your allegiance to the swamp."

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This gets better and better

Love the Macchi C.201 and C.204! The CANSA FC.12 was intriguing ... and made perfect sense as a trainer. Not so sure about as an attack aircraft. Still, amazing to see it in kit form!

Y'all must'a read FC.12 began life as trainer, re-branded for dive-bombing & ground attacking, Regia Aeronautica Italiana making do with FIAT CR.42s as trainers & ground attackers, Junkers 87s when Breda 64, 65 & 88 failed operationally, Breda 201 et. al. "Stuka" projects failing as well.


DO wonder why Reggiane didn't use same engine for the 2001?
Apparently, that was down to Regia Aeronautica planners who had become obsessed by German-style inverted V-12s. To that end, Isotta Fraschini developed the inverted A.120 R.C.40 from the Asso XI L.121.

By the time that IF got the A.120 underway, DB 601As were already available - first from Germany, then from IF competitor Alfa Romeo with their R.A.1000 R.C.41-I Monsone. After that, Asso engines mainly went into torpedo boats, IIRC.

Don't forget the 1,700hp W/M-18 Reggiane 103, same class as Daimler-Benz 603, heavier & more complicated though 100% Italian design, could had been produced earlier in war in lieu of licensed-built DB.601/605s.
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SEM Model AVIA LM.02 Assault Glider Prototype Resin 2018
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Don't forget the 1,700hp W/M-18 Reggiane 103, same class as Daimler-Benz 603, heavier & more complicated though 100% Italian design, could had been produced earlier in war in lieu of licensed-built DB.601/605s.


Yup. And the Fiat A.38 would also have been available to the Regia Aeronautica much earlier if left in its original upright V-16 form.
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Don't forget the 1,700hp W/M-18 Reggiane 103, same class as Daimler-Benz 603, heavier & more complicated though 100% Italian design, could had been produced earlier in war in lieu of licensed-built DB.601/605s.


Yup. And the Fiat A.38 would also have been available to the Regia Aeronautica much earlier if left in its original upright V-16 form.

Should had perused Old Machine Press whole lot deeper, bone up on FIAT A.38, yet more homework :icon_crap: One time had original first edition & near decade later print of Bill Gunston's World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines - my aero-engine bibles before everything in them were up on the Public Internet - can't recall if they'd included photos of FIAT, Isotta Fraschini, Reggiane big engine projects but have to believe Gunston mentioned them in text. Surprised no end FIAT didn't actively pursue further AS.5 V-12 development for fighters Gunston stating FIAT wanted to concentrate on radials though Old Machine Press' A.38/40/44 article says otherwise, i.e. Regia Aeronautica "asking" FIAT to design & build these V-16s Reggiane meantime independently working on their Re.101-105 W/M-18s. Sadly for Italy no indigenous >1700hp aero engines were mass-produced for combat use before & during WWII, were any of these "ferro-aluminum beasts" save the monstrous Alfa Romeo 1101 notably for the Caproni Vizzola MCT in FIAT, Macchi, Reggiane single-engine fighters never mind Aeronautica Umbra MB.902 & IMAM Ro.58 twins Allied Spit (Spitfire), Mossie (Mosquito), pony, 'tang etc. (Mustang), Tiffy (Typhoon), Tempie (Hawker Tempest - my slang) pilots certainly would had both hands full dealing with mano on mano!
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KORA (LF Models Czech) Aeronautica Macchi C.200bis Prototype Resin 2019
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Reggiane Re.2001 With Bomba a Ossigeno Liquido Thermobaric Weapons
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1970s Italaerei Reggiane 2001 Injected Representing M.M.90754 + Italian Kits Wings IKW-7219 Bomba a Ossigeno Liquido Thermobaric Weapons 2019
Red-White Prototype Bomb, Conjectured Verde Olivia Scuro 2 Over Grigio Azzurro Chiaro 1 Operational Bomb, Weapon Not Produced During WWII









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Planet Models Breda 44 Biplane Transport Resin 2018
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SEM Model IMAM Ro.58 Resin 2019
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Finis - For Now
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This concludes occasional photo postings of my past 1/72 scale mixed collection builds for now, thanks for viewing.

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Re: More Hmm...
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Nice! Thanks for sharing  :D


Should had perused Old Machine Press whole lot deeper, bone up on FIAT A.38, yet more homework :icon_crap: One time had original first edition & near decade later print of Bill Gunston's World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines - my aero-engine bibles before everything in them were up on the Public Internet - can't recall if they'd included photos of FIAT, Isotta Fraschini, Reggiane big engine projects but have to believe Gunston mentioned them in text. Surprised no end FIAT didn't actively pursue further AS.5 V-12 development for fighters Gunston stating FIAT wanted to concentrate on radials though Old Machine Press' A.38/40/44 article says otherwise, i.e. Regia Aeronautica "asking" FIAT to design & build these V-16s Reggiane meantime independently working on their Re.101-105 W/M-18s. Sadly for Italy no indigenous >1700hp aero engines were mass-produced for combat use before & during WWII, were any of these "ferro-aluminum beasts" save the monstrous Alfa Romeo 1101 notably for the Caproni Vizzola MCT in FIAT, Macchi, Reggiane single-engine fighters never mind Aeronautica Umbra MB.902 & IMAM Ro.58 twins Allied Spit (Spitfire), Mossie (Mosquito), pony, 'tang etc. (Mustang), Tiffy (Typhoon), Tempie (Hawker Tempest - my slang) pilots certainly would had both hands full dealing with mano on mano!


Agreed on the AS.5. That engine should have seen a two-pronged development course - one into the twin-block AS.6 racing engine (to keep Il Duce's ego fluffed up), the other into a service variant of the simpler AS.5.

To make a service AS.5 derivative work - and certainly to ever see future 1,500 hp inline engines - Italy needed to up its game in refining aviation fuel to boost octane ratings.

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That's a great collection of models. The Breda 44 really looks good! The Dragon Rapide influence is strong.