Thanks, John. I will be happy to get on to the painting over the holidays. Hope you have fun with your 1/72 version.

Thanks, Steve. Definitely want to see this one through soon. Most of the major build challenges solved now so on to painting soon. The decals look excellent, so I hope to have smooth sailing there.

Hi,ad an ITALIAN and model maker who built 4models of the SM79 i can tell you that tuo are doing an excellent job.

All the companies that built the SM79 had their own personal painting scheme for the internal structures,using anti corrosion green,or the anti corrosion grey,or a combination of the 2 colours,green for the cockpit and gray for the rest.

I personally hawe always chosen this the last option.

I remember that the anti corrosion green was produced in 3 different shades : pale green ( very similar to the english Sky green) the shade you used,and the grass green of the Officine Reggiane Caproni whorkshops,which i remember, thogether whit Ambrosini and SIAI were the companies that they built the SM 79 .

Good continuation of the built

Thank you very much for your kind encouragement, Valter. Your work on the SM79 in 1/72 is incredible, I was looking again at the three models you did that are here on iModeler as well as elsewhere on the internet. I will refer to your skillful airbrushing work when I get to that stage on my build. I am sure I looked at your in-progress shots earlier when I was doing my own detailing. That is interesting about how the cockpit color varied. I have seen some pics of museum examples which had both the green and the grey together.