Reggiane R.2000 in 1/48 - DONE!

[Gary]

Well, I guess it must be a POS cause it's fertlizing my desire to build something Italian!!!

Seriously a really nice job

[NARSES2]

Great Job Ollie

[noxioux]

Nicely done, Ollie.  My first impression was of a thunderbolt in the middle of morphing into a hasegawa egg plane.

I have to admit that that I've never heard of this plane, but then I don't have much in the way of Italian WWII lore.  Something else to learn someday, I guess.

Do you have any plans for weathering on that little beauty?  It's awfully clean. . .

[noxioux]

What-ifer, educate thyself!

Is this what we're talking about here?  regianne re 2000

[Ollie]

Yeap, that's the one.

Noxious, I'm against weathering, as I tend to keep my real aircrafts clean during the summer.  So the less oil the better!

 

[Captain Canada]

it's fertlizing my desire to build something Italian!!!

May I suggest a meatball sandwich ?

 

[Tophe]

What-ifer, educate thyself!
regianne re 2000

Thanks for the link and education, Noxioux . Your site gives the answer to my question, with explanations: an Italian design copying an American design made by an Italian engineer...  That was a good way of international friendship . Alas, just a few years later, Italian and American pilots were killing each others...  

[Tophe]

What-ifer, educate thyself!
regianne re 2000

Thanks twice, Noxious! Clicking on home page on the site you directed to, I got the page http://home.att.net/~C.C.Jordan/index.html with an incredible article about official Mach1 before the X-1... Thanks again!

[Ollie]

Tophe, the P-35/43 was designed by Seversky, a Russian engineer...  He was eventually kicked out of his company, but still, za Rodina!!

     

[Tophe]

Tophe, the P-35/43 was designed by Seversky, a Russian engineer...

Ollie you are very right. The Internet text did not say at all that the Italian engineer that designed the Re 2000 had designed the P-35, he just worked for another US company. So I don't understand why this is an explanation. No need to work in the US to see the P-35: commercials were presenting it in the whole World...

I have checked the book "Italian Civil and Military aircraft 1930-45" (J.W. Thomson, Aero Pub. 1963): "The American Seversky EP (export P-35) obviously provided a direct inspiration for the Italians. Nowhere was this similarity more evident than in Sweden, where EP-106 (J9) and Re-2000 (J20) fighters served together".

And that was the way to the Swedish twin-boom J21, somehow...  Not completely out of my favourite way, so. (And I love the Re-2005, too ).

[Tophe]

the way to the Swedish twin-boom J21, somehow...   Not completely out of my favourite way, so. (And I love the Re-2005, too ).

No one objected "the Re 2005 was not twin-boom, eh!"     and it is fine, as the Twin-2005 Bifusoliera becomes a little famous at last.
Though, why not a 2000 bifusoliera?  I will post this one on the topic connected to my site, not to multiply the exploration of people coming here from there... So, thanks Ollie for enriching my collection further...  

[Ollie]

Tout le plaisir est pour moi!


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