Mainly28s
Senior Airman
Username: Mainly28s
First name: Olaf
Category: Beginner-ish- Mostly OoB
Manufacturer: Smer
Model: Savioa Marchetti SM.79 Bomber
Scale: 1:48
Extras: Luftwaffe decals from the spares box, and a few scratched bits and bobs to replace badly damaged/missing bits
This adds another foreign (i.e., non-German) aircraft flown by Hans-Werner Lerche to my collection. It's a bad-ish (terrible?) Smer SM.79. The kit was missing the ventral bomb-aimer's window completely, as well as some of the control hinges (?), and the pitot tubes looked like tree-trunks. The clear parts I did have were about 4mm thick and not very clear (or clearly marked for window frames). The dorsal gunner's position was completely empty, so I put a few bits and bobs in to sort of populate the very empty gaping hole. There were a fair few sink-holes in the belly between the wings, and the engine nacelles required a fair bit of filler, and the supports for the horizontal tail bits were damaged too.
As for the colours:
every source I've found disagrees on the colours, so I went by logic. As it was an ex-Yugoslav machine, which were delivered in Brown and green over light blue, I went with that. Rather than an all-yellow underside, I just did the nacelles and the vertical control surfaces along with the underside of the elevators in yellow, adding Luftwaffe insignia in all the correct places. The CQ+HQ came from a sheet of Luftwaffe letters, and, as per the reference, the CQ is slightly smaller than the HQ on the fuselage sides. It may not be 100% correct, but it works from a common-sense perspective.
![PXL_20230518_143812505.jpg PXL_20230518_143812505.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773959-af107ffed7493ccf8c91ab6a7ed0d1be.jpg)
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That's my first tri-motor, and I'm glad I have an SM.79 in my collection, but will never get another Smer kit- it's just too much work for something that's supposed to be fun.
First name: Olaf
Category: Beginner-ish- Mostly OoB
Manufacturer: Smer
Model: Savioa Marchetti SM.79 Bomber
Scale: 1:48
Extras: Luftwaffe decals from the spares box, and a few scratched bits and bobs to replace badly damaged/missing bits
This adds another foreign (i.e., non-German) aircraft flown by Hans-Werner Lerche to my collection. It's a bad-ish (terrible?) Smer SM.79. The kit was missing the ventral bomb-aimer's window completely, as well as some of the control hinges (?), and the pitot tubes looked like tree-trunks. The clear parts I did have were about 4mm thick and not very clear (or clearly marked for window frames). The dorsal gunner's position was completely empty, so I put a few bits and bobs in to sort of populate the very empty gaping hole. There were a fair few sink-holes in the belly between the wings, and the engine nacelles required a fair bit of filler, and the supports for the horizontal tail bits were damaged too.
As for the colours:
every source I've found disagrees on the colours, so I went by logic. As it was an ex-Yugoslav machine, which were delivered in Brown and green over light blue, I went with that. Rather than an all-yellow underside, I just did the nacelles and the vertical control surfaces along with the underside of the elevators in yellow, adding Luftwaffe insignia in all the correct places. The CQ+HQ came from a sheet of Luftwaffe letters, and, as per the reference, the CQ is slightly smaller than the HQ on the fuselage sides. It may not be 100% correct, but it works from a common-sense perspective.
![PXL_20230518_143812505.jpg PXL_20230518_143812505.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773959-af107ffed7493ccf8c91ab6a7ed0d1be.jpg)
![PXL_20230518_143825389.jpg PXL_20230518_143825389.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773960-61ef44035967e95c0b419ec2c904ea15.jpg)
![PXL_20230518_143836833.jpg PXL_20230518_143836833.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773961-0f413f526087eb3b248ed47a284a9e49.jpg)
![PXL_20230518_143848688.jpg PXL_20230518_143848688.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773962-5b91e8a49a0c51c23b75f85f953871a8.jpg)
![PXL_20230518_143859156.jpg PXL_20230518_143859156.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773963-b54be7676e0c6826206983a66b761ff8.jpg)
![PXL_20230518_143911928.jpg PXL_20230518_143911928.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773964-1b6e2e845e4dd64e7bf93034df39eae9.jpg)
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![PXL_20230518_144254154.jpg PXL_20230518_144254154.jpg](https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/data/attachments/773/773966-ffc9db8521833bb436b407adf49e07ca.jpg)
That's my first tri-motor, and I'm glad I have an SM.79 in my collection, but will never get another Smer kit- it's just too much work for something that's supposed to be fun.
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