Fiat CR.32

[Migrant]

Classic Airframes 1/48 kit, not without its challenges but a nice kit nonetheless. Chris Busbridge decals depicting the personal plane of colonnello Grandinetti, commander of 4˚ stormo.

 

[Airframes]

Can't say I'm a 'fan' of Italian aircraft generally, but that's a beaut model. Have I seen that in a modelling magazine not long ago?

 

[T Bolt]

I don't know how you do it Migrant, your finished models always look so perfect! I can never get the evenness you get when darkening your panel lines. and how do you light the models when taking pictures?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

very nice!

 

[hawkeye2an]

Beautiful Plane my friend, LOVE those 30s bi-planes.

 

[Gnomey]

Excellent work!

 

[Dusan Lekic]

Very nice work! (I like the 32 more than CR.42 Falco)

All the best!
Dusan.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That really is sharp looking!

 

[Wayne Little]

Very nice work Migrant!

 

[Crimea_River]

Sharp work Mike.

 

[Migrant]

Thanks for your comments guys

Can't say I'm a 'fan' of Italian aircraft generally, but that's a beaut model. Have I seen that in a modelling magazine not long ago?

Thanks Airframes. I don't know much about Italian aircraft but I can appreciate their aesthetics, I think the CR.32 is quite an attractive little bipe. I did a full build article on this model for Model Airplane International a couple of years ago.

 

[Airframes]

Ah! Thought I'd seen it before - hadn't realised it was so long ago though! How tempus really fugits!!!

 

[VG-33]

Thanks for your comments guys



Thanks Airframes. I don't know much about Italian aircraft but I can appreciate their aesthetics... Model Airplane International a couple of years ago.

If the Messerschmitt 109 was universally praised during the Spanish War, it tranpired both from respublican, soviet and franquist pilots and sources that Fiat CR-32 maid the job!

Italians and franquists had 295 + 703/903* confirmed claims mainly with this plane; and 314 for the Legion Condor.
On the opposite side there were no more that 800 planes, 648 of them delivered from SU. But it's another subject...

* depends on sources

Nice work!!!

 

[Lucky13]

Nice CR.32! I prefer the CR.42 though.....

 

[B-17engineer]

Great!

 

[Venganza]

Brilliant job! I've always liked the Chirri. If I'm not mistaken, it shot down more airplanes between the wars than any other plane (mostly during the Spanish Civil War).

Venganza