Beautiful job - expertly done. You've gotten very good at applying this camo, and in a very difficult scale 1/72 too. Write up a short review and an article for the Gallery.

Happy Birthday Vince 89 yrs :clap: ! No expiration for you! https://www.stormomagazine.com/Forum/vincenzo-7.gif Regarding photos and images not loading, that's an issue on the hosting side where the images are stored. Kriss loads his pics to another site and connects to Stormo using an image path/ur...

Beautifully done - the rigging detail is exceptional. Send in a article for the Gallery. Thanks for posting this.

Hi Jeff 1) GAC1. There are cases where the wing struts were camouflaged as the upper surfaces such as CR.42AS 21-1 at El Adem in September 1942 (this one carried a radio btw) or on CR.42CNs, the struts were blacked out. 2) The white fuselage band first appeared in North Africa in October 1940 as a "...

You're doing a beautiful job with the detail on a very a tiny plane - it looks like 1/48.

FLY are good kits and I agree VEN-16 is very attractive. I look forward to this build.

Below an interesting video by Ian McCollum at Forgotten Weapons . In this video Ian covers the Breda M37 heavy-machine gun, a good reliable weapon that often gets confused with the M30. Ian McCollum has written books and articles for Popular Mechanics on the topic of firearms and is located in the U...

Below a two part video of the bombing of the Manama Refinery (Persian Gulf) in Bahrain by the Regia Aeronautica on 19-20 October, 1940. The raid was carried out by SM.82s striking the refineries at 2:20am on October 20 1940; then, the longest range bombing mission in history, covering approximately ...

Here are two related videos to the movie Comandante , one is an old Luce film and the R.Smg. Tazzoli and its commander, submarine ace Carlo Fecia di Cossato. The second is a video by icunowlibra (Youtube CC), again the R.Smg. Tazzoli - captions are provided in English. The R.Smg. Tazzoli is credited...

From foglio d'ordini 9.7.1936 - disegno ufficale del fascio alare grande (bombers) 1800mm, this is confirmed from drawings and photos. The other thing to consider is the style of fasce, the axe handle for instance on these planes (notwithstanding from which factory the plane was manufactured) was no...

The Freece Tricolori are good ambassadors. I never seen two teams work together and I'm amazed at the coordination. They probably did not spend much time flying together and in one formation they do the arrow head or a full arrow, very cool.

Outside of US aerobatic teams, the Freece Tricolori are probably the best known for the many exciting shows they have put on around the globe and often winning international competitions. In the video below a combined teams display Freece Tricolor + Canadian Snowbirds do a flyby over Ottawa two week...

Yes the top-side camo RLM 75 was applied freehand, below is the article posted a little while ago and it discusses the camo in some detail under "Construction":

Hasegawa 1/32 Messerschmitt Bf.109F4 Italian Friedrick by Bogdan Zajączkowski

Here's a list of MM and corresponding Serie, unfortunately Serie XII is missing. I think you can say the Serie manufactured in 1942 and after had the 12.7mm guns installed. As you know, L'Arsenal made a resin 1/72 12.7mm Scotti MG.

Gino: the Caproni-Lanciani Delta "Type E" turrets could accept the following guns: 1) Scotti-I.F. 7.7mm 2) Scotti-I.F. 12.7mm (0.5 caliber) 3) SAFAT-Breda 7.7mm Starting from Z.506B Serie XII, the Caproni-Lanciani Delta "Type E" turrets were armed with 12.7mm Scotti-I.F. guns. If you look at the las...