Scale Aviation Modeller International – March 2019

industry made things exactly
the same during the WW2
era so practically every Fiat
G.50 difered from each other
in some details. The SBS kit
refers to it as they provide
the parts for these small but
noticeable diferences even for
the two Finnish planes. The
part breakdown is somehow
reminiscent of the Hasegawa
approach so you can make
several sub variant by replacing
some parts i.e. the vertical in,
upper fuselage, gun fairings etc.
The engineering is clever
and apart from the diferent
parts the breakdown is quite
simple, for example the
wing is in one piece so the
fuselage/wing assembly is
fool proof. As on the earlier
SBS kits all parts have slots
and alignment pins or tabs
making the whole build easy.
I spent an evening carefully
cleaning up all the resin parts

(also it is good to wash the

part with some detergent to

rid of any mould separator)

and started the build as usual,

with the interior. You start by

building up the sidewalls, the

instrument panel and then

the cockpit loor with the seat,

rudder pedals, control stick

and some other parts. The loor

inserts into the fuselage from

below and its exceptionally.

But I struggled with the photo

etched parts as they are really

tiny and delicate. You have to

bend the lower Instrument

panel to shape and test itting

this part is essential. SBS have

rendered the complicated

Italian harness beautifully but

it’s not an easy task to make

it right because partially You

have to insert it after all parts

are in place. It took me some

time and several trials to igure

out the best approach despite

the quite good instructions.

I am that type of modeller

who doesn’t really care for the

manuals (Hey, I know better

than the designer, right?).

The next part to add is the

bottom part of the fuselage,

this is the only part, which

caused me some problem

as the part is somehow too

thick and doesn’t it well

out of the box. I suggest you

sand it down a bit and adjust

it to carefully because the

bottom of the fuselage is lat

and it surprisingly iddly to

sand it to conform perfectly,

ask me how I know that.

The wing itself its very well,

while the nose is a multi part

fair that also its together well

and now you are practically half

done. I had to carry out some

adjustment to the tail part,

again nothing serious it is just

This was a nice and smooth build that

seems have raised the bar for small scale

limited run production kits

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