1/48 Italeri Macchi MC.205 Veltro

[keavdog]

My first Italian bird. They are really beautiful airplanes - like everything Italian (including my wife :giggles: )

Looking at scalemates this was originally a Hasegawa kit. Fantastic model that went together really well.



I botched a bit at the end but overall super fun kit

[handiabled]

Fantastic! I have always loved the look of the camo work on this airframe! How were the decals to work with?

[TJ]

John excellent finish on this. I really gotta get an Italian bird

[stikpusher]

Looks great John! Those Italian “smoke ring” schemes are hard to beat for good looks.

[jeaton01]

Smoke ring decals? Looks cool. One day at our R/C field a flock of ducks flew over where the pit area is and a bunch of planes were parked out from under the shade structure. Only one model got bombed, you guessed it an Italian bird in this scheme. Boy did we rib that poor guy!

[keavdog]

Thanks all. Decals were great - it was a long couple hours getting all of them on the model.

[406 Silverado]

These are such cool aircraft. I have not built one as of yet and do not have one in my collection but builds like this one sure spur me on to get myself in gear and acquire one of these. Beautiful work across the board here John.

[brandonk]

That camo scheme scares me to death. Well done, that is awesome!!!

[kyledehart5]

Beautiful work!! I believe I have a Hasegawa boxing of this floating around the totes of unbuilts. Definitely makes me want to dig it out sometime.

[keavdog]

Thanks for the kind words all.

Kyle - it's an awesome kit.  Falls together.

Brandon - the Italeri kit comes with all the smoke ring decals - and MRP makes the specific italian colors so while tedious putting all those decals on, it's an easy job. Kinda cheating

[kyledehart5]

Wow, that is some nice decal work. And a handy addition to the kit.

[floki]

Great looking build!

[406 Silverado]

May 31, 2024 13:10:53 GMT -5 keavdog said:

Thanks for the kind words all.

Kyle - it's an awesome kit.  Falls together.

Brandon - the Italeri kit comes with all the smoke ring decals - and MRP makes the specific italian colors so while tedious putting all those decals on, it's an easy job. Kinda cheating

 I get it now and I like the idea of the decals for the rings. May have to pick one of these up 

[keavdog]

I highly recommend this kit Joe. It was a joy to build.