Hi everyone!

Here is my entry for this wonderful GB...

The Falco I was an all metal, low-wing monoplane, used by the Regia Aeronautica and the Swedish Air Force during the first part of the Second World War.

The SMĚR kit is a rebox of the 70s Artiplast kit. Though the box states "1/48", it is actually 1/50. It is an absolutely basic kit in every respect, with the parts exhibiting huge amounts of flash and the transparencies looking foggy and crude.

The decal sheet is made by Propacteam and is well registered, bit the ultra thin decals are very temperamental, this being when new. Now they are 15 years old, so, wish me lack...🤭

I plan to depict the box art scheme, a bird belonging to 1Squadriglia, FF.NN, Avoazione Ausillaria per la Regia Marina, as it stood in 1942

Made a start, just to gain some momentum, I decided to assemble the 4-piece wing. Tha bay top walls were totally plain...

...so I added some fine mesh on... ...and assembled the wing. Not only fit is not good, but there's no dihedral (by studying 3-view diagrams, a 2-3° dihedral is evident, so off my brutal bending procedure goes...🤭 ...and here is the wing undersides, where the you may see the top inner wall "detail"... Thanks for stopping by!

Excellent choice to get such an old kit going!

2nd round of liquefied styrene...

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...and initial sanding...

...still more required. Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks my friend @johnb!

Thanks my friend @airbum!
More parts preparation, including drilling out the blant cowling air inlets, dome putty also...

Thanks my friend @johnb!