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Here is Hasegawa's
excellent Macchi C.205V 'Veltro' (Greyhound). The kit went
together beautifully. I used RCRs Italian seatbelts photoetch set and
Ultracast DB 605 exhausts. The rest of the kit is OOB, with my poor
attempt at recreating the 'smoke rings' camouflage
effect. The markings
represent an aircraft from 360a Squadriglia of 51o Stormo, based
on Sardinia during the summer of 1943. This unit was deployed in
the desperate attempt to defend mainland Italian cities from the
streams of American bombers.
The C.205V was a
development of the earlier C.202 Folgore. It used the same wings
and fuselage, but had a more powerful Italian version of the DB 605 engine.
This is a Serie I Veltro, with the rifle-calibre guns in the
wings. These were replaced by Mauser 20mm cannons in Serie III.
Very few Veltros served with the Regia Aeronautica before the
armistice, most would later serve in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana in
Norther n
Italy. By the fall of 1944, practically every C.205V had been
destroyed while defending Italian cities from Allied bombers.
Andrew
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