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Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« on: April 01, 2021, 11:25:24 PM »
It's the spring of 1946, Due to the failure of the Anzio landing, the northern half of the italian peninsula and Rome is still in the hands of the forces of The Third Reich and Repubblica Sociale Italiana, but Il Duce Benito Mussolini has – for health reasons - moved his goverment to the Salo on the shores of Lake Garda.

Here he's busy planning to hit back on the allied. His favorite targets are Malta and Gibraltar. But to hit these targets his airforce - Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana – needs long range bombers and escort fighters. 

Enter Macchi C.205 Bifosoliera. This aircraft was based on the very succesfull C.205 Veltro and was very quicly put into production. In the spring of 1946 they entered service and were escorting the bombers attacking Gibraltar in support of the spanish invasion of The Rock.

My What-if model will be based on an old Frog Macchi C.202 Folgore, a leftover fuselage and pieces found in my private scrapyard.

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2021, 03:19:06 AM »
I remember that old Frog Folgore with fondness. Looking forward to this  :smiley:
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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2021, 05:20:35 AM »
Works for me as well. Looking forward to how it turns our

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2021, 10:49:40 AM »
Going to be very interesting indeed.  I will be avidly watching.

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2021, 09:26:31 PM »
All the bits and pieces gathered. Let the building begin.

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2021, 10:12:03 PM »
The fuselage from my scrapyard have lost it's cockpitt and with the help of plasticcard and putty it's turned into the right hand fuselage.

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2021, 09:00:08 PM »
The wing are taking shape

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2021, 01:25:05 AM »
The work on the left hand fuselage have started

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2021, 10:36:18 PM »
Fuselages almost ready. The new ruders look a bit Bf 109G-10ish !

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2021, 10:40:53 PM »
The fuselages meet the wing for the first time. They nearly fit !
« Last Edit: April 24, 2021, 11:07:15 PM by MAT »

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2021, 12:51:37 PM »
I can only say one thing :D

Yeah baby !!!  Really coming along

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2021, 12:06:49 AM »
 It's coming together nicely. What are you planning for paint?

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2021, 01:56:59 AM »
Looking a little like this one I sketched up years ago:

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2021, 01:59:43 AM »
I haven't decided the paint scheme yet. But there are many options. The ANR in late war had fighters finished in 1) sand and spinach 2) smoke rings 3) herring bone 4) Luftwaffe greys and 5) bottle green. And some combinations!
At present I have a combination of Luftwaffe greys and smoke rings mostly in mind. But .....

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2021, 02:06:31 AM »
Looking a little like this one I sketched up years ago:




The FIAT G.55 Bifusioliera. I started with this drawing, but thought, that FOUR tail planes looked too odd.
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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2021, 02:55:00 AM »
It's coming together nicely. What are you planning for paint?
Here are some of my options

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2021, 09:57:51 PM »
All the pieces glued together. In the end I opted for the original Macchi proposal with four tailplanes.

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2021, 10:00:00 PM »
It do look a bit wierd, but it's different from the Reggiani Re.2005 proposal
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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2021, 10:02:35 PM »
And the FIAT G.55 proposal, know as G.58

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2021, 10:32:25 PM »
Must say I rather like the last (3-colour) scheme. :smiley:
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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #20 on: May 11, 2021, 11:53:10 PM »
Must say I rather like the last (3-colour) scheme. :smiley:

 It would look good in that scheme; I'm slightly more partial to the 'banded' scheme of 22-2.

 I have three of these kits - been thing about the trimotor IMAM Ro. 67 for a while. ;)

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2021, 06:23:44 AM »
Really nice

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #22 on: May 24, 2021, 12:24:37 AM »
Painting almost done

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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2021, 07:50:23 AM »
Nice camo! 8)
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Re: Macchi C.205 Bifusoliera
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2021, 11:17:12 AM »