a pair of 1/144 axis trimotor whifs

[Brian da Basher]

First up is something I call the Savoia-Marchetti SM300. I tried to imagine a more streamlined, racier version of the classic italian trimotor.  I used the forward fuse from a 1/144 Minicraft Heinkel 111 and the rear fuse, tail and wings from a 1/144 Minicraft JU-88. The turret is simply a piece of clear sprue cut, sanded, and painted. I love 1/144 as you can get away with things you never could in larger scales!

Brian da Basher

P.S. The Reggia Aeronautica roundels are a little stylized as a nod to my Uncle Mario who fought with the partisans against the fascists and was in the square in Milan when the crowd strung up the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress. I can't bring myself to be accurate with the symbols of this regime given my family history (my father came here from Calabria because Il Duce built a road through his family's house).

[Brian da Basher]

Here's the other axis trimotor, something I call the Me-310. I tried to imagine a late 1930's experiment where Willi & Co. would try to improve the range and load-carrying ability of the classic Me-110. This is bashed from the 1/144 Minicraft Me-110 by swiping a third engine from a second Me-110. I added a ventral tailgunner position and a bombardier's window on the belly using clear blisterpack material. Decals are prewar Bulgarian roundels in 1/144 from Miniscale.

Brian da Basher

[elmayerle]

Gorgeous bits of work, both of them.  If you try another Me-310, you might use a Bf-109E engine for the third one since the original wind tunnel concept for the Bf-110, as depicted in the big book on Messerschmitt, the thick one translated and published in English by Schiffler, was a scaled up Bf-109 in its lines.