On November 7, 2020 I’d posted this notice of retiring from scale model building after completing the BroPlan Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 four-motor transport, CANT Z.506C Italeri Z.506B Conversion & Caproni Ca.111 vacuforms, injected-plastic Italeri Macchi C.202, below are descriptions & photos of the SM.95 build:The
Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 wood, steel & fabric-constructed four-engine mid-range transport aircraft conceived in 1937 was meant to succeeded the venerable three-engine
Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 but did not fly till May 8, 1943. Two aircraft were constructed & flown operationally during WWII by the
Regia Aeronautica Italiana (RAI) &
Deutsches Luftwaffe purportedly 18 more post-war 5 serving with the
Aeronautica Militare till 1953.
The 2016-vintage 1/72 scale
BroPlan MS-193 & MS-192 Savoia Marchett SM.95 & SM.95C (Civile) vacuform styrene plastic kits with injected-plastic detail parts are the only ones available in any scale, largest in dimensional size of any Italian aircraft model in that scale as well. Heretofore impossible to find on March 19. 2018 located & bought one MS-193 SM.95 post-WWII military version kit off the Internet “at a fair price” intending to construct it in 1943 RAI livery.
In dubious league with my last-ever
SUPERMODEL CANT Z1007bis Bideriva (twin tail) model build some years ago the BroPlan SM.93’s tailplanes are misaligned starboard (twisted aft fuselage halve castings former longitudinally uneven aft fuselage castings latter) neither discovered till after the mainwings were glued on in spite of several alignment checks, relying on eyeballs alone alas not enough here!