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1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« on: August 04, 2009, 11:16:32 AM »




Manufacturer: Pacific Coast Models
Scale: 1/32
Kit Type: Injection Mold, Resin, Vac Canopies, PE
After Market : Scratchbuilt and Spares Box
Subject :Plane of Guiseppe Re
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As a South African, I have always had a great interest in the air battles of Northern Africa during WW2. The proliferation of schemes and odd tropicalized subtypes alone make for fascinating history. Add to that the unforgiving terrain, the open desert in some places touching the bluest ocean imaginable, under a sky as clear as crystal, and you have a setting for war that seems more comfortable in a science fiction or fantasy book, rather than in cold hard reality.



Italian aircraft have for long, in my favorite 1:32 scale, been mostly the stuff of dreams, the domain of a few insane scratch-builders and vac junkies. This was a real pity, since there was oodles of fun to be had with these beautiful, and sometimes odd designs, not to mention the schemes. I think the Italians were the only WW2 nation to give the German mottlers a serious run for their money in the area of sheer artistry.

So when Pacific Coast released the first 1:32 Plastic/PE/Resin/Vac kit of an Italian plane, the MC 200 Saetta, I felt compelled to leave my safe injection molding world and venture out into the desert of multimedia.



This kit, as I have now found with many such smaller industry kits, is not a perfect fit. But, Pacific Coast seem to have avoided  most of the other pitfalls stepped in by other such manufacturers on their first attempts, like over-heavy panel lines and over riveting. This kit is a goody, and if you take your time with this one, she’ll go together like a dream, but don’t take any fit for granted. Test fit everything 5 steps ahead until it all works! Some of the plastic parts will require a bit of sanding and thinning to work, but generally the fit of this kit is not bad. Some parts worse and others better. The resin power egg fits especially well. It fits so well you can literally snap it together without glue!



Areas to watch out for though are the wheels, which will require some thinning, the gear bays, which will need a bit of sanding, and the cockpit sidewalls, which you will need to thin to allow easier fitting of the PE instrument panel later on. Apart from that, Bob’s your uncle!



I replaced the wheels with wheels from an abandoned 1/72 B-29 kit. Sacrilege I know, but they fit, and the Italian boffin at the hobby shop did not even notice…The riveting I did less than 10 minutes and a half litre of sherry after getting Rosie the Riveter. They are completely fictitious, and in fact, border on the highly creative with a smidgen of self–reinforcing delusion thrown in. Not so some of the areas where I sanded away and rescribed panel lines in an attempt to hide areas where I super-glued myself to the fuselage. Those are just sad.





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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 03:23:41 PM »

I really do not like vacuform kits, way over my pay grade.

I did a 1/48th I-16 once, after which my wife stashed all objects sharper than a butter knife out of my orbit.

Italian WWII planes are art.
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2009, 03:31:43 PM »


Italian WWII planes are art.

very true.
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2009, 07:53:12 PM »

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Italian WWII planes are art.

Yep! Actually I'd say they were dead sexy looking. Makes you wonder though why it took them forever to realize that they needed to actually put some more (and bigger) guns on their fighters though.

One of my favorite (well now, when I originally did it I wasn't thrilled with it but it's grown on me) "screenshot art" pictures I did from Il-2 is one of these very planes.
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2009, 05:37:33 PM »

Nice work!
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2009, 06:57:07 AM »

Congratulations CirX on the sexiest propeller I have ever seen. True art.
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2009, 12:46:13 PM »

A model war-torn at the right degree, very close to reality
very good model
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2009, 01:17:49 PM »

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The riveting I did less than 10 minutes and a half litre of sherry after getting Rosie the Riveter. They are completely fictitious

Macchi fighters had all the rivets leveled with the main surface one by one to make all the surfaces as smooth as possible and decrease drag, which is one of the reasons why the C.200 was relatively fast despite being badly underpowered, and the C202/205 were fairly fast despite being way too heavy for their size, but it was also one of the reasons why Macchi fighters took more time and money to build than a nation at war could afford.
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Re: 1/32 Macchi Saetta MC 200
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2010, 08:12:40 AM »

also saved from oblivion! ;D
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