REGGIANE  RE 2005  Sagittario

1/32nd scale

Building
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Views from aside
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Views from above
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Views from below
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Comments
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Main landing gear wheel well.
It has been made of plastic sheets and resin details. The "waves" ceiling of the well is a plastic copy of the ceiling of the bomb bay of a B-26 in 1/48th. It has the correct number of waves!

Also visible is the joint between the inner and outher wing panels.
William Brothers offer both the P-35 and its racer version, the S-2. The former has a 'step' wing (more or less as Texan), while the latter has a continuous diedral wing. This wing has the same basic design of the Reggiane fighters, since Mr. Longhi, who drew the earlier Reggiane Re 2000, has worked at Severski's in the late 30's.

The Re 2000 is more or less a copy of the S-2 and the Re 2005, though with a much different inner structure and langing gear retraction system, has inherited the basic wing shape.

Rear fuselage structure and tail wheel:

I think the leg comes from an F-14 while the fork and wheel come from a Me-109E.
The azure inner structure is made of two components putty, sculped.

The green upper part of the fuselage comes from an A6M Zero. The white part comes from the P-35.

Fuselage closed and wings glued into position:

Cockpit has been painted but still lacks the seat (vacuformed) and gunsight.
The area aft of cockpit has been reshaped from that of the Macchi 202.
The joint between the Macchi fuselage and the Ki.61 engine has been reworked and reshaped several times.
The azure putty is the 3M Acryl Blue putty.
I think I would have never made the model without it!

The model still lacks the Karman fillet between fuselage and wings. It will be made by parts taken from an He-111.