Cruiser Giovanni delle Bande Nere 1/250

[Don Boose]

The Ro.43 is a nice little model in its own right. Unfortunate about the size error, but I can't think of it as a wasted effort.

Don

[NimitzFan]

It's simply too big... even with the folded wings it can't pass through the doors of the hangar...

Is it possible that on the original, more than just the wings folded for passing through the doors? I'm no expert on the Italian Navy, but I know that many USN aircraft folded in surprising ways. E.g. Could it be that the struts for the floats folded, or perhaps the top wing lowered down out of the way?

[CMDRTED]

I would definetly check a separate web source for the aircrafts actual dimensions. Some kits made their aircraft on the big size and are as much as 2-3mm off. It is quite easy to do, I made the mistake on the Hosho's aircraft, converting the wingspan from meters to inches back to mm left the fighters with the wingspan of a bomber. All in all your repaint redesign is fantastic!

[emanuele]

This is a picture of the Ro 43 with the wings folded, and then a picture of the Colleoni's hangar with the airplane inside (a Savoia Marchetti).

My Ro. 43 is too wide and too tall to. It's just a question of 1.5 mm, but in 1/250 it's still too much. My mistake was to trust the original model instead of checking the measures of the airplane an rescale it. Well, lesson learned in the hard way... I will probably put the airplane with the folded wing on its tray, moving along the railway beside the turret toward the catapult at the front...

I think it's the best option

[emanuele]

This is the lower part of the command deck with the door of the hangar opened. No Ro 43 inside... unfortunately.

[emanuele]

The main deck is nearly completed, now...

The allignment of the four poles with the Range finder on the top has been very troublesome... so it needed lots of modification.

[emanuele]

After one week pause spent on playing Ego Draconis,
I'm building my Bande Nere again, these are the Oto Melara twin 100/47 AA guns.
Because I'm unable to roll paper so tiny, I've used spaghetti to create the barrel (Barilla n. 3 to be precise).

[B-Manic]

The guns look good. The spaghetti seems to work very well. What kind of sauce do you recommend?

[emanuele]

Well, Sardinia tomato sauce of course.

My grandma recepie:

1 bottle of bertolli classic tomato sauce (if you don't have your own)
3 pieces of pork rashers cut in 3/4 pieces each (Don't cut the fat!)
1/2 onion diced
1 garlic crushed
1/3 of a good red wine
1 little spoon of vegetable stock
2/3 leaves of FRESH basil.
Olive oil.

Fry the pork meat until brown, put the onion and the garlic. When cooked, put salt and black pepper, then put the red wine.
Wait until the red wine is evaporated, put the tomato sauce. Put the lid on and reduce the fire. Wait until the sauce start to boil. Put the stock and the basil leaves (if you have, half glass of saffron solved in water). leave to boil AT LEAST 1 hour and an half (2 hours best) with the fire at the minum, stir every 10/15 minutes and check it not burns.

For spaghetti, use Barilla or, if you're lucky, Voiello, the best commercial pasta, use the time of cooking indicate in the package (normally 10 minutes). No paint please!

[emanuele]

These are the range finders on the top of the main turrets. Note the fascist symbol in the middle of them.