Pacific Coast Models 1/32 Reggiane Re2005 Sagittario
By Bogdan Zajączkowski
This is my Reggiane Re2005 Sagittario, Regia Aeronautica, 362a Squadriglia 22° Gruppo, Sicily, July 1943.
I will not repeat the historical or technical description of this beautiful aircraft. I will just focus on the build.
The kit is of really good quality - for a short run. Glossy hard plastic with recessed panel lines, very good resin parts, photo-etched fret plus decals. First of all - the kit is not difficult. As with any short run, of course, you need to clean the parts carefully and check the fit several times before gluing parts together.
The wing trailing edges are quite thick and require some sanding. The propeller spinner also needed adjustments - the holes for the propeller blades were far too large. The shape of it should also be improved - but I decided to accept it. The entire model was riveted - thousands of "rivets" - especially on the wings. In fact, it turned out to be much easier than I thought. A certain challenge was to make negative rivets on the wings and positive rivets on the fuselage. The solution is ridiculously simple - traces of riveting on the wings should be treated with very fine sandpaper and "painted" gently with Tamiya extra thin cement to clean them. Rivets on the fuselage - well... I just left them as they were after using Rosie the Riveter. I assumed that airbrushing them with Mr. Surfacer 1500 will give a good final result. And it worked. A very simple and efficient method. Otherwise, an entirely out of the box build with good result.
For the first time, I used black basing - I think the method is great. Uniform camouflage is always difficult - but here I managed to build subtle differences in shades, colors and depth. The model was painted entirely with MRP paints with partial use of Montex masks.
Enjoy!
© Bogdan Zajączkowski 2024
This article was published on Friday, March 01 2024; Last modified on Sunday, March 03 2024