Following WWII
Aeronautica Macchi and
FIAT resumed production of their
Daimler-Benz DB 605-powered
C.205V and
G.55 fighters for the
Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Egypt and Levantine state air forces at a time when Britain and the U.S.A. in particular were unwilling to sell high-performance military aircraft to the latter eastern Mediterranean militaries given escalating violence adjacent to and within British-governed Palestine. Whilst DB 605 engine stocks were being used up FIAT commenced building the
Rolls-Royce Merlin-powered
G.59 Aeronautica Macchi alternatively developing the
C.205M (Merlin) it never going beyond the wooden mockup stage of the forward fuselage "power egg":
Several years ago
Italian Kits Wings marketed the
IKW 7206 Macchi C.205M Resin Conversion Kit for the 1/72 scale
Hasegawa Macchi C.202 kit one of which I'd purchased in 2017 and completed today March 28, 2019 in Aeronautica Militare Italiana livery: