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I have just finished the Hasegawa 1/48
Macchi 205 Veltro with ANR Colors
scheme. I used the Jaguar resin interior and wheel well set, and like many
a/c I started
with the interior. Except sanding and adjusting the resin parts, there was
no
major problems to fit the resin set inside the fuselage. I glued all
the
resin parts with 5 minute epoxy glue, the only main modification that I had to do was to sand and adjust well the part for the wheel well, and open a bit
the cover underneath the engine, again that part was glued with the
same glue. I painted all the interior with Gunze H-321+10 % white, and
paint
brushed all the details inside the cockpit and wheel well, then applied a
wash and a light dry brush.
I cut 2 small iron grill disks to put inside both air intakes, with
thin plasticard I glued some reinforcement in the wheel bay, as my
documentation showed, the rest of the construction is straight forward - this
model is very easy to build.
When the model was ready to be painted, I sprayed 2 thin layers of Gunze H-8
Aluminium as a base coat, and then start to spray the RLM 76,wich in that
case is a mixture of Gunze H-314 blue FS35622+H-67 RLM 65 at 30%,then I
sprayed Gunze H-69 RLM 75,and let it cure well.
The next step was to mask and
spray the Gunze H-68 RLM 74. When this was finished, I started again
with the RLM 75 for the top fuselage, then again back to RLM 74 for the sides
motlling, I diluted the paint up to 90% and lowered the air flow to 0.5 barand
gently started spraying the mottling. When the entire paint job was over,
the a/c received 2 good layers of clear gloss coat, then all the details were
painted, wheels landing gear, canopy etc.....
At this stage I applied a wash on the panel lines with some enamel paint. Then it was time for decaling, so I had the Hasegawa and the Aeromaster
sheet 48-190 for the Veltro, and I can assure you that both sheets are
wrong, because on both sheets they mentioned white insignias on the top of the
wing, and in fact they were black. When my a/c was finished I
sent some
pictures of my a/c to Ferdinando d'Amico who told me that my model was
wrong, so I had to remove the decals. To do that, I used a piece of magic
scotch tape, and applied that on the decals, and I could remove them very
easily. In the meantime, I retouched the paint, by adding some more puffy
clouds on my mottling.
Then as final touch, I sprayed some matt varnish, and post shaded the a/c
with some very very diluted Gunze H-85 sail colors. Regarding the Aeromaster and the Hasegawa painting and decorating
guide, this is not an attack of any sort, but I guess the best way to know
about the a/c that you want to do is to have a book or some pictures of the real
a/c.
So I hope that you will all enjoy the Lovely a/c, and I would like to
specially thank Ferdinando D'Amico for his help and all his
knowledge about the ANR and their a/c, my friends Phillipo Rossetti, and
Mike Powlen for their help, I used the very good book by Maurizio di
Terlizzi, Macchi 205 Veltro, I can assure you that this is a
great reference
for such a project.
Frank
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