Italeri 1/72 Italian S-79 Sparviero

[Guest]

Wow!

That's pretty much all I have, looks excellent Ron

[Jim R]

Hi Ron
Very nicely done indeed. Brush painters 1 - airbrushers 0. I can't see how it could be done with an airbrush.
Jim

[yak face]

I tell thee what , thats a cracking bit of painting old lad . as jim says the only way to do some of these Italian schemes is hand painting ,especially in this scale . If youre wanting another challenge , I can recommend the Italeri Macchi MC 202 in 1/72 , lovely kit and another killer camo - the smoke rings .
keep it up mucker , tha doing a reyt old job , regards benito mussolini

[spanner570]

Thanks fellas.... :thumb2:
I'm chuffed you all approve.
Now I only have to go over it all again to sharpen things up. Then, of course I have the fuselage daring me to pick it up!

Bruno Tonioli

[Gern]

Oh come on Ron! I thought we'd cured you of that nasty habit! You've climbed up the rafters in the museum roof and taken a picture of the real thing under restoration ain't you! Careful you don't fall off 'cos now you got to go back home and get us pictures of your model.

[spanner570]

Nice one Dave, thank you.
You wrote earlier how you fancied this model, but the camo. put you off. There are no less than 5 different camo. options for this aircraft. Going from the ridiculous (this one) through to a plain green version. The kit itself is a joy to build.

Thanks again for your excellent post.

[minitnkr]

Just perfetto. PaulE

[Mini Me]

Killer job on the camo 570, hope the rest goes as well. Rick H.

[flyjoe180]

Oh wow, awesome paint work Ron.

[Andy the Sheep]

Joining late, but your work is really fine, Ron. Morevoer, every time I see an Italian subject I'm more than happy.
According to a "Sparviero" pilot memories, they carried just one torpedo even if the a/c had 2 pilons under its belly, because with 2 torps the SM 79 became too slow and numb.
The painting is wonderful too and only the gods of modelling know how complicated is to paint properly Ita camo schemes. Well done!

[spanner570]

Paul, Rick, Joe and Andrea, thank you for your encouraging posts.

This camo. is proving to be a right 'tuffy', but my choice to have a bash.....

Andrea, as you will probably know, your countrymen did great work flying these aircraft. They sank and severely damaged a good number of allied shipping (Both Royal, and Merchant Navy) in the Mediterranean Sea during the early stages of WW2.
Also, thank you for the bit of info. Much appreciated.

Ron

[spanner570]

Update....

The wife has been busy sewing P.P.E. stuff together, so to give her a bit of peace, and as I can't sew, I stole a pleasant few hours up in my den.

I've brushed on the first coat of camouflage onto the fuselage. Again I just went for it with no pencil lines. As a result of the freehand work, I've noticed the pattern on the horizontal stabilizers appears slightly larger than that on the fuselage. I'll take a look at it tomorrow when my eyes are back in their respective sockets!

If I decide to alter the stabilizer pattern, the next coat should sort it and hopefully tidy and sharpen things up a bit too. Also, I'll need to see if the wing root join matches the camo. pattern when I glue the wings and fuse. together. - Finger's crossed!

Here's the fuselage.



I haven't knocked off the waist gun barrel. - Yet!

Cheers and thanks to those looking in. It keeps the old mojo from going out of the window.... :thumb2:

Ron

[minitnkr]

More perfection. PaulE

[prichrd1]

Admit it Ron, you've used stick back plastic & them little kiddie scissors???? :flushed:
Just like Blue Peter !!!! :thumb2::thumb2:

Astounded in Aberconwy.

:smiling2::smiling2::smiling2:
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[Tim Marlow]

Looks great, though I see what you mean about the stabiliser pattern. Just makes me think that if the Italians had gone for a simpler pattern they could probably have made a few more aircraft. This must have taken just as long at full size.....