Thank you very much for your purchase! I hope you will like it. If you have any question, feedback, complaint even, feel free to get in touch. I am more then happy to hear about them.
If I'm recalling the layout of the DB601 engine correctly, those green tubs are the fuel lines and the silver tubes above them are the Water-methional injection lines
A lot of the problems you pointed out about the kit, seems to be par for the course, for an Italeri kit. I do agree with you on the price point, I think the kit is too expensive for what you get. I think you did a fantastic job with you what you had at your disposal. On another point, there actually is another 202 kit out there on the market. Pacific Coast models made one. That kit however, is a lot more basic in detail than what Italeri has produced so, make of that what you will.
Thank you for the kind words. Well, I was giving the benefit of doubt to Italeri that perhaps in the year 2023 they will get their act together and produce something exceptional. Clearly I was wrong. I do have two more kits from them in my stash which I want to build at some point, but I think I will take a break from them a bit now. 🙂 Did hear about the Pacific Coast one, but I dismissed it when I heard about this coming out.
I'm Italian, so I couldn't not buy Italeri's Folgore. What you are pointing out are the historic problems of Italeri. In other words, the model looks great in the box but rough and poorly engineered during construction. But as you said it is a Folgore and not a Spitfire or Me 109 therefore we'll try in every way to satisfy ourselves by solving its flaws. Great job!!!
Thank you! Yes, it is just a shame that Italeri did drop the ball on this one. Nonetheless it still will be a success for them. It is still okay and overall I am enjoying it. One thing I should say, that the fuselage and the wings seem to fit together nicely. The biggest issues usually are with small pieces. I hope you will have fun building your Folgore.
@rogueplastic I've just started it taking advantage from your suggestions,. I am a very old modeller, since 1966, so I'm used to make adjustments but it is truly outrageous to sell a model in 1/32 scale in 2023 with this poor engineering, especially at this price. At least, checking on my copious documentation the model seems correct. Ciao
You're absolutely right. I will however, say that Italeri does make some kits in other scales that are very nice, even when you have to fix the normal flaws that come with them.
It cost me around $160 CAD, same price as the Kotare Spitfire Mk 1, which I agree is a bit high. I did waffle about it for a while but I followed Spencer Pollard and a couple other modelers' builds and eventually I decided it was worth the price and potential hassle. It looks a bit better than the 1:48 Tauro kit 😉
Looks like the price will stay high for a while. But that's the thing. This is the best Macchi 202 on the market for now. Until this changes, it is a good purchase.
Good build on your part. It clearly is testing you, including your patience. Price vs Effort - agree, its not worth it. It would need a lot of after market, if the after market company's even bother...
Thank you very much! Yes, there is a good chance after market is not going to bother that much. It's too overpriced and the market is not that hot for WW2 Italian planes sadly.
Good observation. Well, the paint does inhibit the properties of the cement, that is true. In a later video you can see me actually scraping the paint off the parts where I am going to glue. The reason is that to make sure the bond is perfect. I do use water based acrylics, so they don't really eat in to the plastic surface as lacquers do, but they are still good enough to act as a layer between the plastic parts. I also found that 1-2 layers of paint is not a huge issue, but when you also have varnish on it, now that can really mess things up and you definitely need to clean the surfaces before gluing.
@@johndaltrocanto another great question. Sometimes I do, but the main reason why I would avoid it is because of the paint I use. As I said, water based acrylics don't eat in to the plastic surface, so they don't have that strength bonding to the plastic as enamels, or lacquers. CA glues are not eating in to the surface either, rather they stick to it really, really well. In this case they stick really, really well to the paint layer, which doesn't stick as well to the plastic. I would rather have plastic cement doing a seemingly less strong bond where it dissolves the paint whilst fusing the two parts together than having two painted surfaces held together by ca glue. But truth be told, I am not a chemist, just basing all this on observation. Plastic cement literally melts the plastic and fuses them together, whist CA is just really, really good at sticking to surfaces.
@@rogueplastic Understood I plan on using the ultra nasty lacquer paints (with booth and respirator) so ca glue should work for me I guess. Thanks for the info, I’ll keep on watching the rest of the videos, first real model is coming up soon so I’m consuming as much modeling content as I can, and yours is really good, thanks for not gatekeeping your knowledge.
@@johndaltrocanto Thank you very much for the kind words. Happy to hear that you are enjoying my videos. All the best with your model. I am sure it will turn out great!
I would appreciate some guidance then, instead just telling me that my shots are a disaster. I am still experimenting with recording, editing, etc... It's not my primary profession. So good advice from a professional is always welcome.
Scusami ma ho solamente espresso quanto mi rimandavano le immagini, non volevo assolutamente offenderti. Da ultimo non riesco a darti consigli sulle riprese, non ho competenze! Buon lavoro ti seguirò!
Don't worry friend. You did not offend me. I know that there are less than adequate parts of my videos. Still trying to find a good setup and configuration to these thing. I am hoping that future content is going to be better. Thank you for the follow!
