Stunning inside and out! Here's Jean Barby's Classic Airframes' "Sparviero".

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Bon Jour Jean. What a beautiful model! My main interest is the Battle of Britain, but absent from my collection are Italian aircraft because I have no real idea of how to produce the finish you have presented here.

Please give some idea of how you have managed something I can only dream of matching...

Karl

Absolutely outstanding! What an inspiration! Well done!

Jean, you never cease to amaze!!

Beautiful work Jean, loads of added detail to the interior and the exterior paint work are great.

Hello:

Yes, Really nice model...! I love the Sparviero...

Congrats & BTW

Diego

Jean, extraordinary Sparviero! I really admire your dedication to detail... I had a similar project on my mind, because I have the model in the stash. Would you be interested in sharing some of your reference for the interior detailing? I will delve into the project in about two years (when I finish everything I started so far, lol) and I would appreciate your help on this. Thumbs up! (both hands and feet!)

Thanks a lot for your friendly comments. One must have book for such a project is definitely the Ali d'Italia on the subject where you will find a plan of all the structure and of the disposition of the different elements inside the plane. If you do a bomber version, it will be different from the aerosilurante. Then searching on Stormo, the Italian aviation devoted site, plenty of great infos can be collected as well. Replic magazine had a two issues article by my old friend A. Saccoccio who was the inspiration for my own. Good luck with your built, Jean.

Hello karl, no S79 during the BoB! Only Fiats, CR 42, G 50, BR 20M, and two CANT Z-1007.
Go to stormo site, I have wrote a dedicated article on the way to paint Italian camos
http://www.stormomagazine.com/Articles/HowTo_JB_1a.html

Best regards, Jean.

Jean,
Just a outstanding build. Your interior detailing is very well done. The build is flawless. But it's your painting of the camo scheme that just caught my eye. Studying the pattern of color over color, you did a remarkable job. No real over spray anywhere. Crisp, sharp demarcation lines just adds to the realism effect.
Joel

One of my favorite planes! Grazia!

Hi Jean,
Wonderful detailing and wonderfully magic painting, love it

Many thanks to you all!