That would be super.

Also note:
1. The blank "coming soon" box on the IBG catalog page - next to the C.202 render - is a new 1/72 C.200 Saetta.
2. Italeri's 2025 catalog lists a new-mold 1/48 C.202.

Potentially a pretty outstanding year for Macchi fans...!

This is from page 15 of IBG's just-published 2025 catalog. I've had some correspondence with one of the designers - rest assured - these will be OUTSTANDING kits.

This interesting photo of a Saetta appeared on FB this morning. In spite of the obvious damage, the aircraft looks quite new. The poster described the shot as "colorized and enhanced," so take if for what it's worth! Still, the average "colorizer" wouldn't have known about the "Celeste" blue prop bl...

Dennis

As luck would have it, this very machine is the subject of another thread down the page a bit. I haven't re-read it in detail but it may have some of your answers.

viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1520

Thanks again! It's a head-scratcher for sure. I can't imagine that an opening so large, was for anything other than a second cockpit. But I agree with you - I also can't imagine how that could have worked! The structural, balance, and aerodynamic issues (would it not have blanked off the rudder?) se...

Thanks Vince! To the best of my knowledge though, the lower drawing is the typical C.202 structure; and the usual method of attaching the separate turnover structure directly to the skinning and tops of the frames, worked well enough. Such a major change to the framing as in the upper drawing, seems...

I loved "Aircraft in Profile!" The first REAL reference material I saw as a kid. My parents gave me some bound volumes as birthday and Christmas gifts, and I eventually rounded up the whole series. Now for some good news - the ENTIRE series (and a lot of other interesting stuff) is available as scan...

A small mystery: these two photos have appeared in several books...with no comment on the obvious large diff between them. Note that the C.202's fuselage had 19 vertical frames, numbered in factory drawings from 0 (firewall) to 18 (tail cone attachment). The lower shot has the three normal upper ope...

Sad to say, it appears this material has now been taken down.

The oft-reproduced manual drawings do show two versions of the C.202's wing, i.e. both with and without the gun bay built-in. My hunch is that the earliest a/c with "poached egg" or solid green camo, did not have the gun bay, and one can back that up with photos that do not appear to show the small ...

Wow, what a superb model! That's the best representation of the difficult "poached egg" camo I've ever seen.

Many thanks - a most interesting discussion! Also thanks to RiK for that shot of MM 7731 with wing guns! I had a vague memory of seeing it before, and unsuccessfully searched for it before making my previous post with photo of MM 7768, LOL... This brings up interesting questions about when the wing ...

Thanks for posting, those are excellent! Never seen these prototypes as models, as far as I can recall.

It is indeed interesting to wonder how production versions of these might have fared in combat.

Speaking of the new 1/32 scale Italeri kit, no less an expert than Maurizio Di Terlizzi has posted some excellent comments on improving it.

https://www.hyperscale.com/2023/feature ... emdt_1.htm

To back up what the Editor said, most of my sources state that Macchi started building-in the wing gun bays, before the weapons were actually installed. Any aircraft for which that was true, could presumably have had the guns added. And, there are many photos of C.202's with wings swapped from other...