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Dora Wings: S.55 At Shizuokalitespeed
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Posted: Friday, May 10, 2019 - 05:32 AM UTC
Dora Wings has released a great image of their completed 1/72 scale Savoia Marchetti S.55 at the Shizuoka Hobby Show 2019
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Posted: Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 12:04 PM UTC
This looks like a great kit. There are complete sprue and decal shots over on Cybermodeler:
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/dora/kit_dora_72015.shtml
However, lest anyone be confused, the Cybermodeler article is incorrect in that it refers to the rare 1/72 Delta-2 and box-scale (I think it was 1/96th) Glencoe re-pop of the old ITC kit as the "S55". Those two kits are of the S55X, which was a larger, somewhat different aircraft. The S55 came first, was smaller, sported open cockpits, different engines, and had a smaller payload. An example of the S55 and one the subjects of this kit still exists in the Sao Paulo Brazil aviation museum:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Savoia-Marchetti-S-55/1822059/L
VR, Russ
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/dora/kit_dora_72015.shtml
However, lest anyone be confused, the Cybermodeler article is incorrect in that it refers to the rare 1/72 Delta-2 and box-scale (I think it was 1/96th) Glencoe re-pop of the old ITC kit as the "S55". Those two kits are of the S55X, which was a larger, somewhat different aircraft. The S55 came first, was smaller, sported open cockpits, different engines, and had a smaller payload. An example of the S55 and one the subjects of this kit still exists in the Sao Paulo Brazil aviation museum:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Savoia-Marchetti-S-55/1822059/L
VR, Russ