Aeronautica Macchi C.204

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The Aeronautica Macchi C.204 ("C.202 Isotta Fraschini" originally) powered by a 900hp Isotta Fraschini Asso XI L.121 upright V-12 engine was designed during autumn 1940 as an indigenous Italian-built alternative to the difficult to produce well as expensive 1,175hp Alfa Romeo RA.1000 R.C.41-I Monsone license-built Daimler-Benz DB 601 inverted V-12. A wooden mockup of the fuselage nose with a mounted Asso XI was built but further development was abandoned after calculations showed the type's performance would be subpar to Monsone-powered C.202s.

The 1/72 scale SEM Model C.204 72810 Resin Conversion Kit for the Italeri C.202, C.205 or Hasegawa C.202 kits comes with a one-piece fuselage & propeller spinner resin parts, vacuformed plastic canopy ones and water decals for a Regia Aeronautica Italiana kit build. The build was easy thanks to good castings and high-quality decals though additional ones were taken from SKY Models 72-014 Macchi C.202 sheets, Aero Detail 15 Macchi C.202/202/205 (Dai Nippon Kaiga Co. Ltd. August 1995) being referenced for location placements.

[elmayerle]

Now that is a beauty.  I'll wager it would have made a great LIFT (Lead-In Fighter Trainer) aircraft for the Italians.

[FAAMAN]

Great work 

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Now that is a beauty.  I'll wager it would have made a great LIFT (Lead-In Fighter Trainer) aircraft for the Italians.

Yes indeed; fighter version airframe weight reduction might had done the trick powered by an improved Isotta Fraschini Asso XI reliably cranking out 1000hp, adding wing mounted cannons ala the C.205V would had degraded performance much as they were needed. The Reggiane RE 101-105 M/W-18 engine series arguably was the best indigenous alternative to German Daimler-Benz 601/605s but seeming like everything else under development in the way of truly competitive robustly constructed interceptor fighters save for the FIAT G.55 wartime Italy came up short. I going to build a four 20mm cannon "What If" G.55 with a SUPERMODEL kit two each wing & underslung wing-mounted in Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana livery later this spring, the absolute last G.55 kit I'll ever build.

[elmayerle]

*GRIN* So then moving on to G.56 variants?  Seriously, I like your idea of a 4-cannon G.55, it seems quite plausible.

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*GRIN* So then moving on to G.56 variants?  Seriously, I like your idea of a 4-cannon G.55, it seems quite plausible.

Have built the Special Hobby SH72182 G.56, nice kit but expensive. I'd thought about building the SUPERMODEL kit with four 12.7mm machine guns ala the G.55 prototypes & Serie-0s with the cannons but implausible performance-wise powered by DB 605s.

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[Brian da Basher]

Now that is a beauty.  <snip>

Concur and one of your best yet, Kal!

Brian da Basher

[apophenia]

Tripling that! A lovely build of a gorgeous subject