One model per (non-working) day

[Butelczynski]

I remember reading somewhere that Italians and Belgians embraced those Hanriots like long lost child and used them to great effect until the very end of war. This is in opposition to French who fell in love with their Spads and didn't care much for Hanriots.

Different kind of fighting and different temperament of fighter I guess.

How much of it was authors imagination I don't now but it's a bit hard to find any French livery for Hanriots and Belgian and Italian ones are dime a dozen out there.

Worth noting is that when post war Polish Gov purchasing commission was buying planes they didn't buy a single Hanriot HD1. They bought some other trainer Hanriots but not this one,or at least I'm not aware of any.

[scissorsandplanes]

Originally Posted by gomidefilho

Nice redesign of one of my favorite WWI fighters and with floats.

the HD.1 with floats was named the HD.2, so that was rather easy to convert.
The rest of the Hanriot family however is completely different... and a bit less graceful in my opinion.

[gomidefilho]

Originally Posted by scissorsandplanes

the HD.1 with floats was named the HD.2, so that was rather easy to convert.
The rest of the Hanriot family however is completely different... and a bit less graceful in my opinion.

Bruno, I share the same perception, although Hanriot was active until the mid-1930s, it produced a series of very interesting aircraft of various types. Most of them do not exist in paper models (or even in other media).

[scissorsandplanes]

A little deviated from the Hanriot set for a moment (and still needing to get the color schemes correct), here some models in progress.

[gomidefilho]

Wow Pomilio PE and SAMS L

[Don Boose]

I know even less about Italian WWI aircraft than I do about German and Austrian WWI aircraft, but I will make a somewhat wild guess:

Ansaldo SVA 9 or 10, although the shape of the vertical stabilizer doesn't look quite right.

SAML S.1 or S.2.

I eagerly await to hear what they really are.

Don

[Rata]

I got nothing.
But I would lean towards some type of SAML for the lower one except for that tail shape....

[Don Boose]

Looking through images of Italian WWI aircraft, I now think the second one with the uncowled engine is a Pomilio PD.

Don

[Rata]

Could very well be Don.
Something about that top one says (as you suggested earlier) SVA to me but Google doesn't give anything. Bruno has a tendency of late to produce obscure types (not a complaint) so time will tell.

Oi, Vanhecke! Get out of bed and tell us what they are!

[scissorsandplanes]

Indeed, the uncowled engine plane is the Pomilio PD. The PE is the same plane but with a cowled engine, making it look much more modern.

The other one (on top) is actually a Fiat R.2.

And I also only learned about these planes (and the SAML or SAI planes) in the last weeks, so I understand completely