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 of the Ca.111 kit build:The single-engine
Caproni Ca.111 was a long-range reconnaissance aircraft & light bomber derived from the tri-motor
Ca.101, first flown in 1932 two prototypes & 152 production aircraft were produced. The late 1990s 1/72 scale
BroPlan MS-76 model kit with vacuform & injected plastic parts is the only one in any scale to date:
Considering its my last-ever vacuform plastic model kit build progress reporting will be made here and on the STORMO Magazine website.
December 8-12, 2020All vacuform plastic kit parts except clear ones separated from mold sheets; mainwings & fuselage pass-thru wing support beam assembled:Fuselage halve portal windows, cockpit canopy panes & dorsal gun areas cut out, exteriors around cockpit spray painted Humbrol 148 Matt Radome Tan replicating Bianco Avorio 5, interiors Humbrol 78 Matt Cockpit Green + Testors Flat White 50/50 + 36% white scale shading enamels; panes fabricated from sheet plastic, glued in place inside canopy:December 13, 2020Fuselage Cockpit Assembly Complete:Fuselage Interior Assembly Complete, Ready For Halve Joining:December 14, 2020Fuselage Halves Assembled, All Seams Puttied* :* Cockpit canopy structural window frame cut-fabricated from white styrene sheet plastic, glued in place, painting it later well as cut-fabricating & glue placing clear sheet plastic panes.
Fuselage-Mainwings Test Fitted* :* Fuselage-mainwing support beam still needs to be painted & relatively positioned & glued in place before affixing mainwings on fuselage, difficult work ahead!
December 15-17, 2020Fuselage Assembly Complete:December 18-21, 2020Tailplanes Assembled, Painted, Glued In Place, EZ Line Thread Replicating Bracing Cables Glued In Place:Mainwing Landing Gear Superstructures Assembled & Test Fitted: