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by Edie1971
Tue Dec 06, 2022 1:23 pm
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: Re 2005 combat
Replies: 5
Views: 2469

Re: Re 2005 combat

You are probably right. That is why Italian Aces don't have the kill number like other nations.
by Edie1971
Tue Dec 06, 2022 1:20 pm
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior
Replies: 8
Views: 3194

Re: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior

Maybe what I am looking at in those photos and Richard Caruana's illustrations are of rebuilt aircraft then. Also I had the author of Courage Alone incorrect, it was Chris Dunning. Are you familiar with the illustrations in that book?
by Edie1971
Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:06 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior
Replies: 8
Views: 3194

Re: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior

Mainly the two in Courage Alone by Shores, and I believe they were drawn by Richard Caruana.
by Edie1971
Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:46 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior
Replies: 8
Views: 3194

Re: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior

Thanks Stefano. I was looking at some other references like Shores' "Courage Alone" as well as the DeTerlizzi "RE.2000 Falco" book. I also have the Ali D'Italia book on the Reggiane fighters. The first two show mostly 2 colors but the later shows 3 colors like you mention. If I do make my 2000, I wi...
by Edie1971
Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:53 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior
Replies: 8
Views: 3194

RE.2000 - The deal with Camo and interior

I've been looking at some of the incredible works made on here, and also posts. I have been seeing a lot of contradictions also all over the internet as well. In Italian service, with 377 Sq., did the 2000's have a three color camo using the colors listed below or was it just a 2 color scheme, the G...
by Edie1971
Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:44 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: Re 2005 combat
Replies: 5
Views: 2469

Re: Re 2005 combat

The Italian sources in current books about the 2005 namely Ali D'Italia and Avriloibri state there were numerous encounters and claims in 1943. Although many years ago I conversed with Ferdinando D'Amico via email and he mentioned the only verifiable claim was a Spitfire shot down in the Invasion of...
by Edie1971
Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Squadron Books
Replies: 4
Views: 2784

Squadron Books

What is the general consensus here about Squadron Books? My take is that they used to be real good for a while, from the late 70's to the mid 80's but seemed to taper off, in terms of topics and quality. I know all of us here are drooling waiting for a book about Italian aircraft, and Squadron does ...
by Edie1971
Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Osprey Macchi Units in Combat
Replies: 7
Views: 3738

Re: Osprey Macchi Units in Combat

I don't have the reference and I don't know the author although likely he's been here before, I just don't recall. D'Amico's last book (Camouflage & Markings of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana 1943-45) is reliable. I wish Ferdinando was still around, he was a top-notch researcher and his boo...
by Edie1971
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Osprey Macchi Units in Combat
Replies: 7
Views: 3738

Re: Osprey Macchi Units in Combat

Thanks Vince. When you get a chance take a peek at that book if you haven't already. I agree with you on that post above. Even D'Amico says that as well....
by Edie1971
Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Osprey Macchi Units in Combat
Replies: 7
Views: 3738

Osprey Macchi Units in Combat

Has anybody gotten this new book on the Macchi Units by Osprey. They kind of contradict themselves in the drawings. Richard Caruana, who is a great illustrator, makes the ANR 74/75/76 schemed C.205's with 74/75 on the fuselage. Then in the description the author notes that is should only be 75 on th...
by Edie1971
Thu Mar 10, 2022 4:00 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Airbrushes, Paint, and smoke rings
Replies: 14
Views: 19716

Re: Airbrushes, Paint, and smoke rings

Been looking at the gallery again getting inspiration. One more question....do you guys freehand your demarcation lines or do you use a masking material like blu-tac or tape? Sometimes I feel Italian planes had a hard demarcation line on paint schemes pre-75/75/76 paint jobs...
by Edie1971
Fri Jan 07, 2022 3:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Italian Subjects
Replies: 5
Views: 5225

Re: Italian Subjects

To all the members of this fine sight. Please mack a list of the Italian aircraft you would like to see produced. Also if you subscribe to any modeling magazines and or clubs you could ask them to make lists. Then these could then be compiled and submitted to several manufactures. GO, Branden Vin t...
by Edie1971
Wed Jan 05, 2022 5:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Italian Subjects
Replies: 5
Views: 5225

Italian Subjects

So as we get into 2022, what's the chances a mainstream company does another Italian subject, preferably in 1/48 scale? Been a while since Hasegawa released the C.202 and C.205. It was nice to see Trumpeter do the SM.79 which I wanted, but didn't get. I thought they would do a bis variant but it nev...
by Edie1971
Wed Jan 05, 2022 5:16 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: ANR Veltro 15-2
Replies: 18
Views: 31546

Re: ANR Veltro 15-2

I know it's an old source but the Squadron C.202 in action mentions as well that the Fiat and Macchi factories were switched over to making BF-109 components mid 1944. Not sure how true that is. They also mention that 3 Gruppo was formed and was supposed to use leftover Italian fighters but it never...
by Edie1971
Tue Jan 04, 2022 10:13 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: ANR Veltro 15-2
Replies: 18
Views: 31546

Re: ANR Veltro 15-2

To complete what said Vince about the 15-2, it was the MM 92276 and it seems it was flown by S.Ten. Aurelio Morandi (at right of Visconti in the photo) on 19 April 1945. That day, Morandi shot at and badly damaged a B-24 (s/n 42-50428, 859th BS, Cpt Sutton) near the Swiss border, but was hit by ret...