Tauro Macchi C.202

[Second Air Force]

Time for me to get back into the model room again. Here's a project that I started several years ago and have put back in the box at least twice:

Tauro Macchi C.202

This is the first kit from the manufacturer Tauro that I have seen and it requires quite a lot of work. The plastic parts are of a definite short-run appearance with large tree attaching stubs and a lot of flash in certain areas. Here's a couple of photos of present-day progress:

Tauro Macchi C.202

Tauro Macchi C.202

[No.1]

Tauro  That was dream kit when it was released almost three decades ago 

[Second Air Force]

One of my very favorite airplanes from the WWII period, the 202 is just so sleek looking to me! I built one of these in 1/72 scale when I was young and roughly hand-painted the Italian camouflage. That model was my crowning achievement for a long number of years and my dad remembered seeing them when he was in North Africa.

I'm making the best of this one, but I will someday get a Hasegawa kit for a more relaxing build.

[modellius]

For me this aircraft always seems like a sport car among fighters :-) lot work still to do, but looking forward to see it done !

[draken35]

Nice work Scott!

[Second Air Force]

Thanks for the encouragement, friends--there is much filling and rescribing needed on this one.

I couldn't agree more on the shape of the MC 202, Modellius. This is perhaps the finest looking WWII fighter in my opinion. I had a customer many years ago who was a fighter pilot with the USAAF in Italy and he felt the same way. He never got a chance to fly a Macchi, but he thought it was prettier by far than anything in the Allied inventory.

[Jicehem]

Hello

Beautiful work for one of the most beautiful fighters of the WW2. Good projerct.
I got one many years ago and didn't finish it... Too much difficult to build at the time. But some years later I started to build the MC 205 and finished it...

Jicéhem

[Second Air Force]

I've put this one back in the box often because of the difficulty, too........but now I am committed to at least finishing it. I truly wish to build the Hasegawa version some day for a bit more enjoyment!

[Second Air Force]

Some time has passed.......and a lot of putty has been applied on this little Macchi:

Tauro Macchi C.202

[No.1]

Old kit, no wonder of that

[Jicehem]

Hi,  

Good work. Bravo !
I've a question to ask : Is the right wing longer than the left one ?

Jicéhem

[draken35]

[Second Air Force]

Hi,  

Good work. Bravo !
I've a question to ask : Is the right wing longer than the left one ?

Jicéhem

I hope not! (I'll have to measure this tonight......)

[Jicehem]

Hi,  
Good work. Bravo !
I've a question to ask : Is the right wing longer than the left one ?
Jicéhem

I hope not! (I'll have to measure this tonight......)

If wings have the same length, it's an error...
To counteract the engine torque (due at first to the rotation of the propeller) the right wing was a little longer. About 2 mm in 1/48 scale.

Jicéhem

[Second Air Force]

Aha! This is great to know!!