"Building the Revell 1/72 scale Fiat C.R. 42 Falco" Topic

I spent a pleasant afternoon building and painting this little gem, more here link

Nice. I love the early WWII biplanes.

Nice plane and great brushwork

This is a nice looking biplane. You've become quite the master at assembling these old kits into a fantastic looking model.

Jim

That is awesome!

[q]Nice. I love the early WWII biplanes.[/q]

People forget about them, but I love them. A bit slow for the period, of course, but highly maneuverable. I especially like the Gloster Gladiator and Sea version. That plane served many areas, especially Malta.

BTW I agree with you on painting yellow. *shiver* And all those dots! Thank goodness all my Italian planes are all pre-paints for Wings of Glory! I do not have the patience for that paint scheme! LoL.

About the Walthers Solvaset, ditch it. The stuff is nasty. I used it in the 1970s with thick decals, but learned better in the 1980s. I use Micro Set from Microscale decals. microscale.com

Micro Sol is amazing but takes some skill. It's for those tough areas to decal, like over rivets. I never got good at it, but it literally makes the decal part of the paint.

Do a google search on Micro Set and Sol. You'll find some good how to videos on them.

A pleasant afternoon…?

That would have taken me a fortnight, with occasional pauses for psychotic breaks. Building biplanes is hard enough; add in that insane Italian three-color billion-spot cammo, and the mercury will burst the top of my internal thermometer for sure.

Well done.

- Ix

PS: I can confirm the efficacy and ease of use of Micro Set and Micro Sol – they've worked brilliantly to decorate dozens and dozens 1/200 and 1/144 warbirds. I haven't tried anything as big as 1/72 plane, but I do have vague plans to try adding decals to 1/2400 carrier decks some day.

Very nice!

PPS: I also have troubles painting yellow cowls, and WWII had a LOT of them, so they're a constant thorn in my side. My most recent technique is to spray paint the nose of the plane yellow and paint all the non-yellow bits by brush, since spray yellows have no problems with coverage. Late last year I bought Army Painter's "exact match" spray and brush-on Daemonic Yellow so I can do touch-ups to fix mistakes.

If that is the same 'kit' that I built as a kid, back in the early 70s, it went together well…and was a surprisingly 'tough' little beast, unlike most biplanes. Think it ended up as a battlefield 'wreck'… and may be still there, somewhere! :)

Heedless Horseman,
It is the same old Revell kit from the 1965, I had been toting the model from house to house for the last thirty-five years…….I finally got around to building and painting it! Who says procrastination doesn't pay off.