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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Now the model is almost ready for painting.

The spinner (a much reduced section of a P-40's spinner) is in place. The small bumps over the fuselage are sections from resin bombs, all panels and rivets are already into place and the gray primer which was used to reveal defects and scratches is Gunze's Mr. Surfacer 1000 airbrushed by my Badger 150. Nice primer!

A view from above:

The metal and fabric ailerons and tail sections have been simulated by the use of Mr.Surfacer.
I airbrushed a heavy coat of it after having masked by tape the 'fabric' areas (white in the pic). Later everything has been sanded slightly.
This way, the metal structure stands out because of the thickness of the putty.
 

This pic shows the Karman fillet with its large screws and the panels and rivets details onto the fuselage.

I hate the debate over scribed or rised panel lines on models. Why don't we see how each aircraft was?
The Reggiane fighters (but also Macchi's and just for example the NA B-25) had the fuselage made by panels that were overlapping each other (and we have only 1 line of rivets instead of 2 at each joint).
They leave a step, not a scribed or rised edge. Both ways of reproducing this effect onto models are wrong!

To get the right effect, again I used Mr. Surfacer. I airbrushed it onto the edge made by tape. The putty blends over the fuselage over the upper panel and leaves a step towards the lower panel. No need to send anything and a beautiful scale rendering of the real thing, expecially on the rear fuselage.

Rivets were made by the use of pouncing wheel, I bought a set of 3 from Micromark.
Larger rivets were scribed one by one with a needle.