Shane's Gina G. ** Finished **

[shangos70]

Gonna go with PK34 Aeritalia G91Y.

Pics to follow.

[PaulBradley]

Nice choice.

[shangos70]

Cheers Paul, should finish this one! Had this kit as a nipper and loved it, becoming quite hard to find at reasonable prices now. I think the sharkmouth is a must.

[Ian]

If you don't do the sharkmouth I will be very upset! It's a great choice.

[Martin R]

How disappointing! From the thread title I thought this would be full of pics of a ginger scouse singer . . .

[shangos70]

Don't think my other half would be too impressed Martin! Mind you , she's not keen on plastic kits either!







Looking forward to starting this.

[beany]

Very nice choice mate - I look forward to seeing that one come together. I've always liked the shape of the "Gina" but strangely enough I've never made a kit of one yet. I do have the Italeri 1/48 jobby in the stash which I think has the same scheme as yours on the decal sheet (along with 5 others - gotta love Italeri's generosity with their decals).

He're a photo of the real McCoy I took at Malta Aviation Museum a few years back for inspiration (albeit sans Shark Mouth!)



Cheers
Al.

[shangos70]

Work has commenced, primed the innards and made up the under wing stores, a dry fit shows the wings to have positive locations and just a small bead of Vallejo putty will hide the seam. The paint callouts call for aluminium undersides but Beany's pic looks more grey. I may just go with the box instruction.

[Martin R]

Shane,

Great that you've made 'ooh ahh just a little bit' of progress. Pics, please.

regards,

Martin

[giulio_gobbi]

Beany, the picture you post, is a G91R, not a G91Y. :-)

All the Yankee of the 32 Stormo, based in Brindisi, wore a Sharkmouth.

[Dirkpitt289]

Nice choice

[Martin R]

How's it going, Shane? Anything to report?

regards,

Martin

[shangos70]

My build hasn't died, just been flat out with work. Managed to get a little done late last night. fuselage joined up and main wings on. Pics later

[shangos70]

Here is where upto at the moment, undersides painted aluminium, ready for masking off. I added a generic cockpit just to give a semblance of dials etc. The wheels and weapons are ready and put aside til after the decaling. I hope to get the top colours on this weekend.

[ShaunW]

Nice work Shane, it's good to see this is coming together. I think the IP detail should just be nicely visible once the glass is on and should look fine, particularly as the pilot/seat combination is filling the rest of the void.