Alberto Bortolozzo was the last commander of 260 Squadrigilia based out of Saint Andrea seaplane station. The kit is a 1/72 Pegasus offering. Build log can be found in the Under construction page.
This is what I?m calling finished! Not an easy kit to build at all. Some issues were my own fault and some with the kit design. Since my last post I just needed to mount the upper wing and rig everything. Well, I wanted to use the kit interplane struts and use the upper portion of the cabane struts. After painting the interplane struts and tack gluing them, I quickly realized that I had mounted the engine about 3mm too high and the wing rested on the engine. I had to scratch build all the struts to ensure the upper wing fit properly.
Overall I?m pleased with the outcome but it sure took a lot of work to get to this point.
I?m posting this now but still have to add the serial numbers. I have ordered some decals that I hope will work. This pilot also had a slogan painted on each side in Italian. I may try to paint it at some point.
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Thanks for looking in!
Tim
