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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 7:53 pm |
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This from Aero Detail 15 Macchi C.200/202/205 (1995)
Page 111 - Late MC.202 Serie I-III Serie IV Early Serie V:
"This model (sic) of the Folgore was built from late 1941 to early 1942.
The trop. modification, which incorporated a sand/dust filter replacing the straight supercharger air intake, became standard.
Other changes included an enlarged oil cooler, a small cockpit cooling air intake below the windscreen on the left side, and other internal sand/dust countermeasures for the Mediterranean & North African theatre. later, a very few Folgores of this model (sic) were retrofitted to carry to wing-mounted Breda-SAFAT 7.7 mm machine guns.
The Piaggio P.1001 three-blade constant speed metal propeller (diameter 3.050m) was the Folgore's standard, as it was on the MC.200."
Page 112 - Late MC.202 Serie V Serie VI-X Early Serie XI:
"Built throughout 1942, the external changes to this model (sic) were the discontinuous installation of two wing-mounted Breda-SAFAT 7.7mm MGs (500 rounds per gun) and the installation of a bulletproof windscreen. Those examples without the two wing MGs had a plate covering the gun ports on the leading edges of the wings. Also additional armor plate to protect the pilot's back (right behind the seat) and a rear-view mirror on the front canopy were also fitted. The venture tube was still located on the underside.
From mid-1942 the MC.202 was equipped with a new fixed tail wheel designated the 'D' type and the trop. modification was standard.
A small number of MC.202s were modified in the field to photo-reconnaissance versions equipped with cameras fitted to the leading edges of the wings, in the same way as the MC.200.
Initially the Folgore was powered by a German-built DB601A-1, but later, the Alfa Romeo-built license production version (the R.A.1000 R.C.41-1 Monsone "Monsoon") became standard.
Perhaps for technical reasons, an additional small bulge (aligned with the previous bulge) appeared on each side of the upper nose in the Italian-powered version."
Nocciola Chiaro is translated as "Light Hazel", am surmising weathered paint would get lighter so establishing the "Light Hazel" shade to me is important insofar as depicting weathered shades.
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2018 7:40 pm |
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Nice work. The Wing Fasci Markings top & bottom should be black outline only unless you'd found photographic evidence of black on white, unusual on C.202s for sure!
Fuselage undersides typically were painted Grigio Azzurro Chiaro (GAC), a narrow band about the width of the forward Oil Radiator extending from spinner hub to between the wheel wells and from the Engine Coolant Radiator to the Tail Landing Gear Fairing about the width of the radiator housing tapering in size to about that of the gear fairing at least on AerMacchi factory C.202s, GAC on Breda factory C.202s extended up to the tail planes and engine exhausts.
Nothing has been more vexing to me regarding C.202 camouflage finishes than GAC fuselage application, i.e. common or not so. Extremely few wartime photos I've seen show underside C.202 fuselage camouflage detail and even then not clearly, only wished wartime photographers had taken a few showing the undersides!
For decades I'd "wrapped" topside camo around C.202 model fuselages but quit doing so after getting the Aero Detail 15 book showing the Italian Air Force Museum's C.200, 202, 205 fuselage undersides painted GAC despite the U.S. National Air & Space Museum's C.202 fuselage camo being fully wrapped-around. I saw this airplane in April 1982, magnificent restoration though now believe not wholly accurate insofar as camouflage coloration.
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