Macchi M.E. 72 AMP kit

[simontie]

The Italians sure design some pretty stuff, ships, boats, cars, airplanes.....

and miss the reliability & practical side of things:smiling5:

[simontie]

More than a colour scheme the brass part is, in fact, the water cooling system, made of brass tubes and spread on wings and floats. That solution spared weight and reduced the drag.

yes I read up about it, I think the Fiat V24 cylinder engine took up most of the fuselage, engine bay to cockpit was aluminium and the rest was timber still holds the record for a piston powered seaplane @440 mph or 710 ish kph that was back in October 1934. some interesting reading in this link
simon

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/23-october-1934

[Dave Ward]

That's looking very good - I have to agree about Italian engineering - great design, poor execution ( Lancia Beta ).
Stupidly, I bought the SMER 1/48 Macchi model, that is apparently 1/50 - I just looked in the box, and it went into the 'no way' section of the stash ( that's next to the 'you're having a larf' pile ) ......................
Dave

[Guest]

the brass part is, in fact, the water cooling system, made of brass tubes

Ah, that explains the corrugated surface I noticed on the model!

[simontie]

That's looking very good - I have to agree about Italian engineering - great design, poor execution ( Lancia Beta ).
Stupidly, I bought the SMER 1/48 Macchi model, that is apparently 1/50 - I just looked in the box, and it went into the 'no way' section of the stash ( that's next to the 'you're having a larf' pile ) ......................
Dave

I do believe from some on line reviews its not the best kit out there, this AMP kit has been ok quite simple the painting is what caught me out
I had a good mate who loved the Lancia’s great looking very responsive just never expect to get where your going

[Dave Ward]

I had a good mate who loved the Lancia’s great looking very responsive just never expect to get where your going

My Uncle had a Lancia Beta - it was one of those that Lancia bought back, he said it started rusting, as soon as he drove it off the forecourt. I had a chance to see some Italian engineering, I looked at a new Ducati Desmo in a showroom ( my mate had dragged me in ) - it looked good from a distance, but when you looked closely at the welding on the frame, they were bird sh*t welds, looked like something a beginner would produce, not something you expect to see on a high priced superbike!
Dave

[Guest]

he said it started rusting, as soon as he drove it off the forecourt.

IIRC, the general opinion around here was that they already started to rust in the catalogue

[adt70hk]

Definitely something different Simon. And it's looking very good indeed!

ATB.

Andrew

[simontie]

I should have mentioned it the engine‘s blew up a lot till a British engineer pointed out the ram air issue !!!
simple air intake problem..

[Andy the Sheep]

yes I read up about it, I think the Fiat V24 cylinder engine took up most of the fuselage, engine bay to cockpit was aluminium and the rest was timber still holds the record for a piston powered seaplane @440 mph or 710 ish kph that was back in October 1934. some interesting reading in this link
simon

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/23-october-1934

The V24 engine was, in fact, 2 V12 engines coupled one in front of the other so that one was moving one 2-blades propeller clockwise and the other moving the other 2-blades propeller counterclockwise.
The solution led to two results:

• a drastic reduction of the props torque without introducing a real counter rotating prop (probably a too sophisticated solution for that era) with the consequent ease of control without a too large rudder
• reach the requested power output without designing and producing a 24 cylinder engine (probably another too difficult engineering problem for FIAT capabilities at that time).

Now I will shut my Capt. Slow mouth and let you enjoy the model.

[minitnkr]

It was still beautiful. I spent a couple hours trying to get a good peddle on a 60s Fiat roadster I was restoring, when the boss came over to see what the delay was. I told him & he laughed & said "it's fine, they're all like that". Lesson learned. I stuck to British cars, Saabs & Volvos mostly after that.

[simontie]

Well im calling done link below for finished item

https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/macchi-castoldi-m-c-72-amp-kit.41250/