These are the latest aircraft models I’ve completed. They’re both 1/48 scale WW2 planes and were built
over the last month and a half.
First is the Italian Macchi MC.200 Saetta fighter, the radial-engined predecessor of the more famous
MC.202 and 205. It’s painted in Eastern Front colours and looks very distinctive with its yellow and
white theatre markings combined with the mottled camouflage (I’ve always liked the style of Italian aircraft
camouflage schemes).
The kit is by SMER (reissue of the ancient Artiplast kit) with a number of details added from scratch such as cockpit
interior, aerial, and wingtip lights.
The other plane is a RAF Westland Lysander reconnaisance aircraft. This plane is more famous for its role in
transporting spies and agents into and out of occupied territory, but my model is of the aircraft in its original
role of recon and army co-operation.
It’s built from a Testors kit (Italeri boxing) which overall is pretty good - it fits together well and has good surface detail. However it could definitely do with more interior detail (I scratchbuilt a control column and firewall) and also the landing lights in the undercarriage fairings do not have transparent parts - they’re just moulded into the parts and have to be painted silver. Still, it builds an impressive-looking model of the Lysander, and as far as I know no-one else does one in 1/48!
i have to remark that you do impressive work. tell me how you did the camo job. it looks very good. both are very clean builds and very well done. thankyou for sharing them.
If you’re interested in a more recent 1/48 kit of a Lysander, that would be Gavia’s kit. Its been reviewed by FSM sometime in the past couple of years. A good review from what I recal.
Very nice builds [tup]. The Gavia 1/48 Lysander is a much more detailed kit than the elderly Testor’s tooling, but you did a great job on the Testors/Italeri. Thanks for sharing.
To get the mottled camouflage effect on the MC200 I used an old, medium-sized paintbrush which I had cut the forward 1/3 of the bristles off. I painted the aircraft green and when this had dried, applied the camo using light yellow/brown paint.
I brushed very lightly (similar to dry-brushing but with a bit more paint on the brush) in roughly circular patches, building up the paint more densely in the centre of the patches.
This is the technique I use for painting most mottled/irregular camo, including WW2 German armour.
