Hi team,
No big backstory for this one, just a simple premise: what if the Royal New Zealand Air Force had replaced the De Havilland Vampire with the Macchi MB.326 in 1970, rather than the BAC Strikemaster?
We ended up replacing the Strikemaster with the Aermacchi MB.339CB in 1991, so perhaps this idea makes a bit more sense?
This is the Supermodel 1/72 kit reboxed by Italeri with a great decal sheet. I was planning to make it a real world RAAF Roulettes machine OOB, but the included RAAF roundels are awful to my eye, so I started thinking...
No real issues with the kit that weren't my fault - I used superglue to mount the wings but used too much, and the ventral airbrake on Supermodel Aer/Macchis REALLY doesn't suit beingbuilt closed! Ventura decals for the national marks, kit decals for the stencils and Italeri OH-6A for the numbers. I used the practice bombs and racks from the Hasegawa Harrier, I'll take more pics soon to show these off